i always wanted to go the extra mile, synergize, get the ball rolling, move the needle, think outside the box, and get out of my comfort zone. permanently
I’m glad I got the opportunity to leverage my skills and knowledge in order to drive customer engagement and deliver wins as a team.
Exactly! Nowadays hardly anyone thinks about the shareholders!! Think about the shareholders!!!
Oh I always think of the Shareholders!
Like how to jettison them into the sun or send them to the bottom of the sea toget the most value!
Don’t forget to over deliver and under promise. You’ll get paid the same, but it will make somebody else boatloads more money.
I prefer to talk out my ass and then get started and realize that what I promised is way harder than I thought and then have no life while I manic-panic my way to delivering, somehow.
Are you me?
Moving the needle is so satisfying
I just need to touch base so we can circle back.
I knew what synergy was and I wanted it.
You forget to mention that you wanted to do all this going forward.
All through a single pane of glass.
It’s the hyperspecialization that is the problem. To ease the training of the labor force, they wanted to specialize everyone. However, generalists have their value too, as they act as the glue. But, management have forgotten that. All they care about employees that fit their small niche, which makes it hard for them to get employees and for others to get a job. I have given many interviews, where I was not as good with the manager’s niche and that sucked ass because whatever knowledge I am missing, I could easily learn it while working because I focussed to learning how to learn too. But, that was not good enough.
It’s so funny how colleagues and employees act as though their job is so niche no one could do it. Bro, YOU did it and you’re just some andy (respectfully). Anyone can do it.
I’ve seen some meme’s about imposter syndrome along the lines of “If it was really important, wouldn’t they get someone better to take care of it?” and they’ve actually helped me relax quite a bit about my work responsibilities.
Also, I want others to be able to do my job. Being the only person where I work familiar with my shit is such a pain in the ass! I want to work on new stuff, not be cursed to answer the same damn questions every day because no one can be bothered to read the documentation I wrote.
Absolutely my mind set - “Oh, so this is the bar? Okay…”
Frankly it just makes me sad at this point.
Yeah, I feel like any job should be doable by a wide range of people. I mean, the advantages are fairly obvious. I don’t know why would anyone want their jobs to be niche. If there is any work that is only doable by a handful of people, either change the way you do things or train more people to do it. At least that is what I believe.
I used to be a programmer and probably my best strength was my ability to talk to clients, understand their needs, and design software that satisfied those needs. There are absolutely no certifications or formal qualifications of any kind for this in the programming world and employers do not look for it or give it any weight at all when filling positions, despite its obvious importance to the success of projects.
But, you don’t have 5 years of Javascript, Php, angular, react, python, c++, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure experience. How is a manager supposed to hire you?
In all seriousness though, I remember a project where we were supposed to do Point Cloud Segmentation, essentially classify which point belongs to what object. Problem was, I didn’t know the subject and there are no good textbooks because it is not yet a well formalized discipline. So, I asked my manager to buy me a course, which should give me and the team a foundation to stand up on. But, they said no. How is one supposed to do a project without actually knowing the subject, especially when most of the subject is locked behind papers that are not easily accessible.
Its annoying because they want you to be a specialist in the interview then once you get on the job it’s very generalized work and your knowledge is rarely utilized. I swear so many jobs have no idea what they’re hiring for.
Feel you! I am literally in the same situation right now.
I wished to sit in an open plan office where everyone could see me scratch my ass while all conversation and meetings were done via Slack and Zoom, even if we were next to each other.
I essentially quit the programming profession because of fucking open office plans. Just an absolute nightmare as far as actual productive coding environments are concerned.
They’re the wet dreams of marketing departments the world over, but genuinely shit for everyone who has to concentrate on their work lol
Modern “open plan” offices with hot desking bullshit are not designed for neurodivergent people which are generally drawn to programming.
Even when if not neurodivergent ( allegedly ) they are not designed for programmers
At least on slack there is a searchable archive created from the interaction.
Yeah do I really need a searchable archive of FlyingSquid scratching his ass?
Actually. Yeah, sign me up.
Sure, but we would literally be right next to each other and just talk via Slack. It was stupid.
I am the kind of neurodivergent where I really need that kind of built in organization, so from all of us megADHD folks out there we really appreciate your patience.
That does make sense, but I guarantee you that few of the people I worked with were neurodivergent based on break room chatter.
Ooo! Are we playing Corporate Lingo Bingo?
I just love waking up to a flurry of emails from my boss frantically asking me to do basic tasks. It’s how I know I’m a valued team member! And I do this for less and less every year due to the fact the raises are never high enough to counter inflation.
They keep telling me I’ll be rich soon, guys! Oh man, I wish I were kidding…
Getting paid 130k+ a year is a pretty good life for writing emails.
Its essentially a trade of your soul for writing emails.
Meh. I work 35 actual hours in front of a keyboard. I have my days but I’m happy and mostly fulfilled.
I do the same… and i guess i am burnt out by lack of interesting and consistent work to do.
aspects of my job I absolutely hate:
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Maintaining a DLL( or shared object) in a large piece of software where my team’s scope is so narrow that we are just a conduit between two other processes. bugs get introduced by behavioral changes from upstream or downstream.
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No real exiciting problem to solve.
I learnt Compiler design, Complexity theory, Concurrency, Algorithms, etc in college. But I look at bad code that does
if (boolvar) return 1; else return 0;- Constantly get shuffled around on tasks by my manager who goes into panic mode if his supervisor asks about something.
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Everyone wants to touch my base and I haven’t even started building one yet
It was worse in the 80s. Everyone wanted to follow up Mañana. Who is this Mañana?
Is this Patrick Bateman? Cause I’m reading this in his voice.
It sure is. Seems like something he might say unironically.
Bateman and all the other VPs did a lot of things but it didn’t seem like they ever did anything that could be considered work.
No, it’s not Bateman, that’s Batman.
He’s not the Krusty Krab
What are you doing Step Robin?
I think I actually did.
I always got told I could do whatever I wanted and didn’t know what I wanted to do. But I figured I didn’t want to do anything manual into old age so ruled that out. I knew I wanted to do a lot of different things and work with different people. But talking can be difficult.
Emails and working together with lots of other people and working on problem is great. Wearing a suit and making big decision seemed really interesting.
Work in general sucks but it beats the alternatives. Everyone on this website comes across as somewhat autistic. Dealing with people isn’t the end of the world.
Ever since I was a
sophomore in college(?)
I knew I wanted to
work cross functionally across teams
Otherwise I might be in yesterday’s Excel meme 😳 only a lil Excel/GSheets pls
My childhood dream job was not working in office.
Oh, so like, you wanted to work in a factory?
Rather that, than work in an office, but not exactly that either. I wanted to do something that involves working with my hands, so I became a plumber, but nowdays I’ve got my own company and do other renovation jobs as well.
This guy wouldn’t use an S to pluralize “e-mail”. The UK school system didn’t leave children behind.
