The people doing application review typically have no idea what they’re hiring for and dont bother to try. They just look for candidates that check the boxes.
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 week ago
I was fortunate to find something that I have enough skills for but I absolutely agree on the polymath thing. One would think that it'd be a useful skillset to have but I don't think most businesses can grasp the concept. As a result my employer doesn't receive anywhere near the benefits they could from me.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
And you likely don’t see the compensation you could. My last professional job hired me in 2015 as a “copyeditor” – but they actually meant someone who moved rectangles around at a remote editor’s direction on newspaper pages without reading copy.
Then there’s the scheduling. Moving out of state with a guarantee that I’d be off by 11 p.m. so that my wife would still be awake when I got home turned into being immediately put on a team that worked until 2 a.m., as we were producing two papers I used to work for (one where I’d been managing editor from 2003-2006, and the other a temporary desk job in 2014) that were on Pacific Time.
With my marriage starting to fray, I walked into the executive director’s office and said this schedule was not what I was assured when pulling up stakes from Oregon to Texas – with a 20% pay cut and rent being triple what it was – and that this needed to be fixed. Now.
As it turned out, the wheels were already turning on a new commercial department to bring in external clients. It wasn’t full-time yet, but I got switched over to dayside design in the meantime ahead of being the team lead for the new department.
Going into detail on the automation I did to keep things humming smoothly is somewhat pointless, but I dusted off my coding skills and learned JS to create a workflow for my team in Google Sheets. It went swimmingly, and my team had a blast while almost everyone else was miserable.
So, now I was a threat. Causing – hard as it is to believe being possible – even further realization on other teams that we were all intentionally getting fucked by intentionally dysfunctional processes. But the directors needed bad data for disciplinary purposes, so I was causing too much of a stir and shunted to another department, where I learned the InDesign DOM and turned the work of a three-person team into 30 hours total via JS.
That’s when IT got word that a designer was coding! We can’t have that if it’s not in your title – even though IT knew fuck-all about the production workflow and couldn’t have done what I did. After being forbidden from further automation, I was strung along for 18 months about transitioning to an IT role.
Never again will I work for an employer more interested in control than results.