The 12 chairs of Silicon Valley

From my 14 years of professional life in the silicon valley, I have learned some secrets:

  1. Hot chair: when they want you to fail
  2. Cold chair: when you are given nothing to do
  3. Small chair: when you are given a much smaller cubicle than your title
  4. Big chair: Peter’s principle, if you fail, then…
  5. 3-legged chair: somewhat uncomfortable
  6. Musical chair: reorg for 1 month, find a position at end of music, else…
  7. Empty chair: when all your direct reports are gone
  8. Wet paper mache chair: a timed exit
  9. no chair: position eliminated
  10. needle chair: it hurts to stay
  11. merry-go-round chair: job rotation to the Nth degree
  12. see-saw chair: now I see you, now I don’t

Which chair are you on now?

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