Gold-plating is not that bad, but when it becomes the key for a staff to show his/her performance, that comes a complication.
When you have plenty of time to accomplish your task, gold-plating could be your final touch. Literally, this is a nice to have step. To working level staff, that is junior staff to middle management staff, this is really a time wasting step. However, some would say, middle management may need this as an essential element to be promoted to senior level. The fact is, if you do have time for gold-plating, you probably off-load some dirty works to others, like junior staff or peer. In other words, you are really prepared to be a senior staff.
It sounds like it is a necessary skill for one to climb up the career ladder. No objection. If your skill foundation is not established from your professional, but with different levels of gold-plating. I don't think this could help you climb up the ladder steadily.
When seniors did not see what is key for skill foundation, but blindly asking for results, and at the same time require staff can do gold-plating to certain degree. What will a company be under such atmosphere?
Though all said seniors are with crazy ideas which were never be practical, can you not entertain their desires? We, living down to earth, will never understand the underneath. We always tell each other, if you understand why seniors thought in that way, you were already sitting at a senior position.
And all these, distinguished you are in which category of the society. Everything comes with reasons. Never be too surprised for all unexpected, unfaired, unexplainable, ...etc, results that you are taking.
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