15 Ways to become Indispensable on work (without kissing ass)
10 min readJul 17, 2018
There’s an interesting anime on Netflix called Aggretsuko. It’s about this young ,Red Panda Accountant having a hard time at a job she low-key hates. Her agreeable, docile personality does her no favors either, as she is screwed at every turn.
The characters in the office are the typical (and physical) archetypes:
- Her boss is a Pig.
- One of her co-workers is a Snake.
- There’s a gossiping Hippo (I don’t get the correlation).
- There’s an ass-kissing informant Weasel/Meerkat as well.
She eases her stress after work drinking and singing death-metal karaoke (it’s good, trust me).
It got me thinking about work and how we can be better at it, whether ass-kissing meerkats, frustrated Red Pandas, or real people with demanding jobs.
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Hopefully you’re not in a situation like poor Retsuko, and you have a good job, a competent, compassionate boss, and the ability to contribute in a positive way.
