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2 and 3 are often intertwined. A lack of proper reward sometimes is exactly what lack of organization means or results in.

I've worked at many different jobs, the really dysfunctional ones tend to punish rather than reward good work.

Also, be careful with the overtime. A really well organized company is able to pay its employees for every hour that they work. They also don't need overtime to make up for dysfunctional planning. Overtime is, after all, a lack of reward by definition. That is, I'm assuming unpaid overtime of course.

Its not always like this, though in my experience the really messy organizations put a lot of value on overtime, either because there was a crisis all the time or it was the 'look me being busy (with my career)' kind of politicised org.




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