Sure, I worked at Boeing for about 3 years before I went back to school and got my teaching degree. They would give me 3x or 4x the time I needed to do something. So I’d finish my project in like a week and play God of War and walk around for 3 weeks, and they still thought I was fantastic. They actually had me redo the flight computers for the CH-47 Chiniook, it was insane because people just kept adding random code over 50 years to make things work to the point of it failing due to just the volume and inefficiency. I rewrote most of it in a month and they gave me 6. I’m guessing the guy before he just sucked or milked the hell out of it to give them the expectations.
You ever catch your self working too hard at work and be like "let me chill they're not paying me enough for this"
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Tiral@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Act your wage.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll go against the grain here and say it depends on the employer. I worked for a great company, where we were well treated, well paid, believed in oir product, had long term employees and low turnover, steady growth and competitive advantage. Our work was important amd we loved our customers and they us. I worked crazy bullshit hours for these folks. They never had to ask. We were engaged and wanted to give our best.
Then they got bought out, laid off a bunch, outsourced to india who pickled a production system and shut down operations for a week because they didn’t know the difference between test amd production.
I went from a superstar, to a drifter because they murdered everything from reputations to culture to benefits.
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
100% of the time.
I’m in IT - have had a series of bosses that have been resistant to scripting. But because I’m lazy I still will script a solution, finish “early” and then just not tell them I’m done until when it feels like as long as it would have taken to do manually.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I was fired from a job after I had automated so much of my workload. The phone calls for help started about 2 weeks later. I had to laugh, sorry, I was working a new job and didn’t have time for their crap. They ended spending way more than what my salary was on 3 new employees to cover what my lazy scripts were doing.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
Getting ready to retire, and boy I do not want to be around once my scripting that everyone relies on breaks. And it will, it requires regular upkeep by me. Not by design or maliciousness, but because of Microsoft 365 stupidity. But oh well...