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Minus: You’ll never get promoted because no one else can do that job
Plus: You’ll never get laid off for the same reason
Never underestimate the ability for middle management to not know how important you actually are.
Shit, sometimes they’ll lay you off just because you are worth too much and cost too much money.
Or just do RTO
Me rn and I hate it
Look for another job rn so when you ask for a raise you can shortly after present your 15 days
I’ve already started looking. I’ve asked for a raise twice and I got laughed at.
Oof, when I asked for mine, I at least got some empathy even though it was a non-answer. Wish ya best luck.
Recently met a surgeon specialist who was responsible for covering multiple hospitals in the area. Had 13 surgeries lined up waiting for her, after my friend, who she finished working on at ~midnight that day.
Being important sure can have downsides.
Yeah, can’t imagine the medical field anymore. You don’t get paid to treat the patient, you get paid by the job rate. And they schedule the hell out of you to make sure you’re profitable for them.
was your friend the first?
I honestly don’t know but i think it’s unlikely.
Yup. I go out of my way not to be important at work. Get things done. Stay under the radar. Don’t take any promotions unless you reaaaally need that money or think they’ll get rid of you if you don’t.
I’ve had excess responsibility at jobs and it makes life a living hell. Ain’t worth it.
Worse, you become important but with no pay raise
Then it becomes all pain no gain
That one has a simple answer:
If they are not paying you, they don’t consider you important, simple as that.
I think it’s a bit more complicated than that.
I would say if they’re not paying you what you’re worth then there’s a few possibilities:
- You are less important than you think you are
- You think you are less important than you are
- They just underpay everyone and don’t care if you leave
That’s called leverage. “Oh you don’t want the only person who knows how to do X to quit? Sounds like a you problem.”
Samesies.
I used to be a programming monkey. It was absolutely fine, I enjoyed it and other people got the flak if things weren’t done on time or there were other problems. My code was never the problem - each day, I spent at least four hours working for the company and up to four hours on my own projects, on the company dime.
Seems like I got too… confident in meetings. Made suggestions. People took too much notice.
Now I’m some kind of lead architect which pays really well, but there’s no more time for myself, there’s much more pressure, I can’t code nearly as much as I want to and the fun is gone.
Confidence in meetings and paying attention is like a death punch to the face made of money. It happened to me too.
Within a few months at my current job, someone unironically referred to me as a thought leader in my department at the company in an all-hands meeting. The look of surprise on my face… I almost blurted out “it’s fuckin’ chat GPT, man!” Glad I didn’t, but seriously… LLMs used correctly are a powerful tool.
This is why you should not work too hard, but just at the right amount. Employers might deem you are too valuable to be promoted. And exceeding way beyond expectations and performance might also raise the standards impossibly high for most other workers, and that will cause resentment.
Sounds like an Anime title
God dam that hits close.
I’m really damn good at what I do. I am not a good teacher. If you make me teach the new class because I’m good at doing the job…it won’t go well.
HAHAHAHAhahaha…ha…😭
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