• ARF_ARF@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Learned this very early at my first job. I was new to the whole content writing industry so I kept to just writing the minimum expected 2000 words per day.

    Meanwhile two other coworkers with more experience wanted to impress the management I guess and wrote way above that.

    The result? More and more work for them. And also when performance reviews came along I was the only one to get a raise because “the quality of my writing was above average in the company.”

    In the end, they were punished for “over productivity” while I was rewarded because sticking with the minimum word counts meant I had time to polish my work.