Consume Product

I learned that lesson when I was young. For one thing, it's an easy way to get stuck where you are in the company. If you're the absolute best employee in your department, you actually discourage your managers from promoting you. See it from their POV: if they promote you, who's going to do the job as well as you did? Productivity will plunge back down and it'll make those managers look bad, right? That's how being "too good" at a certain job can get you stuck there.

Often times, you just want to be the guy that gets there early, is generally liked by everyone else, doesn't complain, doesn't need to be micro-managed, and is just slightly better than average. The kind of guy that would "fit in" at lunch with the other managers. And, of course, it helps if you're a "protected class" and your company has a DEI manager that can force your promotion.