Chloe Shih

Yeah, I kind of bucket into this term that I call underappreciated overachievers.

Yeah, where these like super high competent people who just want to do a good job and like prove that they're good and trustworthy, they get overlooked a lot.

And then their efforts just are taken for granted or they don't get rewarded.

And it builds this tension, this resentment, this feeling invisible, this when I finally ask for what I want after years of committing loyalty to company manager or whatever, they don't get it because this whole time they weren't even seen as someone of that much value and importance.

So I feel it's a common story.

Yeah, that's what I call it.

Oh, the archetype.

Um, I think the, I think a common theme is not getting credit for it.

Okay.

Like you are, you are asked to do this.

You move mountains to do it in your crazy, already crazy schedule because you're a dependable person and you, someone asked you for help and you're like, I will help this person because they asked.

Cause like, isn't that what you do?

And then when it comes to the publicity about it, whether it's an internal post, whether it's at all hands, whether when there's shout outs, when there's someone posting on LinkedIn, your name's not on the list.

And you're like, what?

And it's because you're not visible enough for whatever reason.

You're not a PR play for them.

I remember things like make sense.

Like I worked on like a big, big, really big product on TikTok.

And then on the press release, they wouldn't put my name on it because they would put the senior director's name on it.

And I was like, why?