Which is why you always get this sort of order in writing, from the boss. If they won’t send it, you send them an email saying something like “Thanks for taking the time to discuss this issue with me today. Just to confirm, you said I should <whatever>. I pointed out that this could lead to <consequenses>, but you stated I should continue anyway. Please let me know straight away if you don’t agree with that recollection.”
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Toes@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Shortly after they fire you and tell you that you shouldn’t have done that. 🙃
notabot@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
MML@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Good advice but what do you do in America? I’m not sure my boss can even write.
notabot@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Bosses who wont send this sort of thing in writing, and who don’t read emails you send them are handy, as you do things your way and just poibt out that you emailed them about it a week ago. The papertrail becomes your greatest asset.
TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Emojies?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they like you, they won’t fire you for any reason (almost), if they don’t like you, they find any reason to fire you.
Jobs are not held or lost on merit, for the most part.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Kinda. Had the CEO want some code changed while the VP of my department was on vacation. Changed the code, and the VP had a grudge against me afterwards because it was code he wrote. A year later a project failed (due to mismanagement) so it was blame game time and the devs got blamed and it was firing time. I didn’t work on the project that ended in failure, I was working on a different project which was a success.
Guess who got fired?
I guess technically it was because the VP didn’t like me. But the reason he didn’t like me is because I did my job and made the software work the way the CEO wanted it to work.
That’s just how she goes. Catch-22 scenarios happen no matter how likable you might be.
liinux@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Or even better, they have money to upgrade their perfectly working computers and chairs, but they don’t have the money to repair or change the tools you need to work.