{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":1,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.linux.pizza\/users\/finlaydag33k","displayName":"Aroop Roelofs","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7405-original-tmp20231102084758.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7405-96-20231102111715.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7405-48-20231102111715.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7405-24-20231102111715.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"7405"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7405-96-20231102111715.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Tech | Rants | Cute anime girlsPictures preserve moments.Stories preserve memories.Documentation preserves knowledge.Remember this or you will be forgotten.Discord: @finlaydag33kMatrix: @finlaydag33k:finlaydag33k.nlKeyoxide: https:\/\/keyoxide.org\/c27fba8174a9c3ebfa5d512d738ee8dbc43f9861","url":"https:\/\/social.linux.pizza\/@finlaydag33k","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"finlaydag33k","displayName":"Aroop Roelofs","note":"Tech | Rants | Cute anime girlsPictures preserve moments.Stories preserve memories.Documentation preserves knowledge.Remember this or you will be forgotten.Discord: @finlaydag33kMatrix: @finlaydag33k:finlaydag33k.nlKeyoxide: https:\/\/keyoxide.org\/c27fba8174a9c3ebfa5d512d738ee8dbc43f9861"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brotka.st\/users\/kaia\" class=\"u-url mention\">@kaia<\/a> Judging by my past experiences with colleagues getting promoted, it's 80% relationships and 20% job skill.<br \/>Seen so often that people who'd barely have the skill to keep up with interns get raises and promotions way before those with high amounts of skill.<\/p><p>To someone working in HR, someone that just knows the basics can quite easily look just as skillful and impressive as someone with advanced knowledge<br \/>The way they perceive your skills plateaus really quickly.<\/p><p>On the other hand, when you have the relationships, you can (ab)use their emotional-based reasoning instead.<\/p><p>When I still worked in IT I always said to new people: \"HR isn't gauging your skill, they are gauging your personality\".<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-30:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.linux.pizza\/users\/finlaydag33k\/statuses\/114913083910353218","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.linux.pizza\/users\/finlaydag33k\/statuses\/114913083910353218","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brotka.st\/users\/kaia\" class=\"u-url mention\">@kaia<\/a> Judging by my past experiences with colleagues getting promoted, it's 80% relationships and 20% job skill.<br \/>Seen so often that people who'd barely have the skill to keep up with interns get raises and promotions way before those with high amounts of skill.<\/p><p>To someone working in HR, someone that just knows the basics can quite easily look just as skillful and impressive as someone with advanced knowledge<br \/>The way they perceive your skills plateaus really quickly.<\/p><p>On the other hand, when you have the relationships, you can (ab)use their emotional-based reasoning instead.<\/p><p>When I still worked in IT I always said to new people: \"HR isn't gauging your skill, they are gauging your personality\".<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/social.linux.pizza\/@finlaydag33k\/114913083910353218","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/brotka.st\/users\/kaia"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-07-25:objectType=thread:nonce=ab709b558a06be33","notice_info":{"local_id":"10605897","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-07-25T13:09:26+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/social.linux.pizza\/@finlaydag33k\/114913083910353218"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/5405803","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}