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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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.
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
To be cool and not let emotion dictate your behaviour.
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 assholes. 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
Your boss’s priorities are your priorities.
If you don’t show up, you get fired.
When you’re 19, this is a valuable lesson.
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.
These are my grandfather’s words not mine: no matter how much of an idiot your boss is, he is still your boss
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 20 mins 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.
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.
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
We had big layoffs last year. The order of layoffs was troublemakers that couldn’t be fired for other reasons > attendance > performance > how recent you were hired.
troublemakers that couldn’t be fired for other reasons
They got me before the layoffs started by fiting me after I sought FMLA for my mental health after months of deterioration following discrimination from my director. My discrimination lawyer loved that addition to our case.
Damn I hope you got paid! I meant legit troublemakers like stealing stuff but no one could prove even though we all knew. Not doing work to expected quality. Causing drama within the group.
At least the stories I’ve heard my company is pretty good about medical and mental issues. I know they kinda forced my old boss into early retirement but they made sure he’d get long term disability until actual retirement which was like a decade away. We’ve kept in touch and he’s happy as a clam with how it turned out.
I already had a lawyer for the discrimination which led to the mental health crisis, so he was happy to throw this in for damages when the time comes. We’re still in the courts so we’ll see how it goes. Pretty sure a jury would side with me over an evil massive corporation that you would probably recognize, likely because you or people you know are forced to be their customer due to effective geographoc monopolization in the industry.
Glad to hear about your company and old boss. It’s always good to know those places are still out there.
I watched a Director level employee get let go during a round of layoffs because he caused to much trouble by fighting for his employees.
This goes for just about anything in life:
“First seek to understand, then to be understood.”
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