Comment by antimemetics
Comment by antimemetics 3 days ago
What I don’t understand is why people tolerate this. Of course companies will do this and worse if people let them.
Comment by antimemetics 3 days ago
What I don’t understand is why people tolerate this. Of course companies will do this and worse if people let them.
The only viable option here is to make yourself non-replaceable. Stuff as much knowledge in your head as possible, share bare minimum, use non-standard tech stack, write no documentation, ground as much project on yourself.
And in the interim, before you're non-replaceable (which very, very few people actually are even if they follow your suggestions), you'll definitely be fired for being an asshole to your coworkers, barely doing half your job, and as jensens said having horrific technical judgment. And rightfully so, and now there's a company of people who know you and what kind of coworker you are.
Several times in my career I've had my boss or one of my boss's peers send someone's resume to me because our tenures at another company lined up. Sometimes I knew them, and sometimes someone otherwise very well qualified for a job on the technical merits didn't get an initial interview because they were horrible to work with.
I've found it doesn't work, they just lay you off anyway and when things are bad afterwards they just accept that it's the cost of layoffs.
> Stuff as much knowledge in your head as possible, share bare minimum, use non-standard tech stack, write no documentation, ground as much project on yourself
This will work only if your manager has 62 IQ.
And be fired for your terrible technical judgement instead.
People tolerate this, coz companies fired a lot of them recently.
A lot of ppl on the market means we have no leverage in discussion.