For me:
Sometimes it doesn’t matter how hard you work, your going to get laid off either way.
Just showing up can sometimes make the difference.
Your not paid to be a software developer. Your being paid to be a problem solver.
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You can’t go in and give 100% every day. You will burn out. Give 70% regularly. Only give 100% when shit really hits the fan. People will think you are a miracle worker.
Plus, companies will abuse you.
Not even companies, other coworkers or your manager
People are really fucking stupid. I work in IT. I’m a helpdesk tech at an MSP, and I see profound idiocy all day every day. People have no critical thinking skill and seem proud of the fact they don’t know shit about anything. People young and old say they’re tech illiterate like it’s a good thing.
Any sort of thinking, even reading and sharing the fucking error message is a foreign language to these fuck. The error message tells me exactly what to do to help, and you fucking closed it and can’t reproduce the error now!? Good luck.
On the other hand, can you please share an actual error message other than “something went wrong” and requiring me to reproduce the error while on live chat because there are no server logs?
The informatics nurse took a second to register that I was just gonna give her the IP address to remote in. She had this whole spiel ready ready to walk me through finding the device number (that wore off years before I even started). I was like girl I have the network settings open do you just want the IP address I just need you to make the new EPIC update behave let’s get to it.
I wish every user was as good as you. The best users that I’ve encountered are my immediate family. I’ve trained them up over years and when they need my help, it’s not a nightmare lol
Join a union the first chance you get, they exist to fight against HR, and to fuck over the company of them try to fuck you over
Somehow, I’ve got HR fighting for me. What a great country to live in.
You can get away with a LOT if you keep people up to date with what you’re doing
If only I’d think of that while doing it.
It’s usually a “This will take 20min or so” and turns into an “I know I am 3 hours into that but I know I am close to fixing it for good!”
But you can get away with the 3 hours on a task, if you detail exactly what’s happening with a check-in every now and again, that’s what I mean.
If I would remember doing that! Yeah, sure.
Reward for being even slightly competent and having work ethic is more work. To the point where you are doing everything until you break.
If you do something that needed to be done out of curtesy it’ll become your responsibility.
If you want to find someone who understand something about the corporation, look at the basement.
A corollary to your first one: if you take on extra work people will forget it is extra work when it’s not delivered on time or has issues. It does not matter how much the first three people fucked it up, you touched it last.
People will only forget, if you let them. I always make sure my contributions are very clearly visible. That of course presupposes that you have meaningful contributions to make visible.
I find people who try to stand out and play up their work insufferable. What I find more insufferable is that this works for getting ahead
It seams like you may be well-fit for this type of envoirement.
I’ve been working in corporate environments for the past thirty years or so. So yeah, I guess.
I was being passive-agressive.
*You’re. I’m sorry for being that guy, but you’ve made that mistake three times.
Anyways, it is never worth being the hard-working type. I’ve learned the lesson that once you prove to be reliable, management is going to gravitate towards you and work you to death. That means, they’ll want you always helping others, they want you in multiple departments, they want you doing extra tasks on top of everything you do.
So, don’t be reliable. Just do what you can and call it a day. Don’t over-achieve, especially if the company-related rewards aren’t worth it.
Bullies go unpunished by corporate unless it’s overtly sexual or racist in nature. If you stick your neck out to defend someone getting bullied the company and the victim will leave you hanging in the future when the unpunished bully turns on you next. HR are soulless husks.
These are my grandfather’s words not mine: no matter how much of an idiot your boss is, he is still your boss
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You’re represented by your words. It can cost you opportunities.
Your boss’s priorities are your priorities.
People (customers and coworkers alike) are generally not very bright, putting it politely. No matter how foolproof you design a system, the human race is out there absolutely cranking out bigger fools than you even imagined.
Never try and improve things, specifically things having to do with how your job, group, division, it whatever works. Don’t try and improve efficiency, optimize workflow, or anything like that. Just do what you’re paid to and nothing more. If the company wants things to be more efficient then they can have your boss figure it out on their own. If they don’t punish you for trying them they won’t reward you for success, so don’t bother. Going above and beyond never works out.
This goes for just about anything in life:
“First seek to understand, then to be understood.”
If you don’t show up, you get fired.
When you’re 19, this is a valuable lesson.
