Corporate Entity's survival guide: Part 2

"I'm always try to do my best but no matter how good I'm at my work and how well this reflects in my teams overall performance I have been isolated by everyone", "I'm innovative, that actually work, I'm professional and pay attention to the quality of my work,I strive always to deliver within or if possible even before a deadline, I help others when they are faced with difficult tasks. But no mater haw I improve on these attributes both my superiors and my colleagues hate my guts and are constantly giving me a hard time"

Unlike what people usually think corporations do not strive to promote excellence among their staff. The image of the employee who is hard working shows originality and professionalism and gets reworded both in salary increase, respect from his peers and a promotion is almost completely false. 90% of corporations reward there employees based on there seniority in a very standard way regardless of performance. Even those who do claim to have a performance rewards in reality use an elaborate internal politics based system to calculate who gets what and all the positive qualities we usually associate with advancement in life are excluded from it. In fact like the display of original thought and behavior described in survival guide part 1 they is a sure way of putting you in the "deep freeze" or even getting you fired instead of promoted. So here some advice to save your ass

1)Do not do your best or even try to improve your performance even if you feel compelled to do so.
2)Never show originality, innovation, true professionalism, good quality of work or attention to detail. If you accidentally show this qualities during a project just make sure no one notices and never talk about it especially to you peers.
3)Never ever finish a project before a deadline.
4)Never, ever, ever, ever help anyone.

The truth is that with very few exceptions nobody wants an overachiever in a corporate environment no matter how helpful he might be for the overall performance of the team or the department. Your colleagues will feel threatened because your work ethic might force them to wake up from there sloppy sloth speed and improve themselves. Your your superiors will also feel threatened because no mater how inept in company politics you are, they will see your success gradually sawing off the base of there leather padded chair. Even if they don't feel threatened by you they will have to put you down somehow because it is the only way to stop your colleagues from constantly complaining to them about you behind your back (those you helped will be the first to do so). In any case always try to use the absolute minimum of you abilities and stay if possible bellow the mediocrity bar if you don't want to cause trouble.