It’s interesting comparing this to Australia / NZs cultural career issue, “tall poppy syndrome” [1].
People really need to be coached to even say a personal achievement let alone sell it when apply for jobs.
People really need to be coached to even say a personal achievement let alone sell it when apply for jobs.
There's an unspoken agreement that if someone puts in overtime and others don't, it makes the non-overtimers look bad and that that the overtimer should be _cut down_.
Probably not quite tall poppy syndrome, but maybe an adjacent phenomenon.
So that with cost taken into account, the overtime employee isn't much different from the others. Instead, skill would matter more.
The post was really illuminating. I don't know the Indian culture very well, but now I can understand why sometimes Indian resumes are so lengthy, difficult to parse, and essentially filled with air.
But "tall poppy" is someone who is talented.
No contradiction between punishing talented people, and serving those who complain.
Here's two others: aim for the stars and hit the moon. And,
He who tries to get everything gets nothing
(Translated.)
Those sayings also disagree with each other