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@dotproto @rowlandm @paul_ipv6 @mekkaokereke
I’ve been the grease.
The proof of being the grease is that:
• Senior management doesn’t value you while you work there. You even get asked what you do and the really bad ones ask you to justify your time.
• When you come back from holiday your team is in joyous tears and your manager values you for a quarter.
• Everyone externally comes directly to you.
• Senior management really values you after you have left, as costs have gone up considerably.

I used to have what I called ‘the Sargent’s network’. We all knew who was the grease in each department and we’d constantly talk and keep things from breaking.