Something I always try to [gently] instill upon the interns is that if you break your back for the company, the only thing you will get is a broken back. The company does not care. Even if on some level the people in charge do care about you, they care more about money. The day that they stand to make more money by firing you than by continuing to employ you, you’ll be gone.
You are nothing but a name and salary on a spreadsheet. And if you’re wise, that’s all your employer should ever be to you.
In my own experience, wearing a shirt everyday to look formal seems more effective than working hard. Wearing shirts is still extra work because you got to iron them during your time off, which is a pretty annoying.
Same, but make it a cute dress and big goth boots. Makes all the other software engineers too nervous to talk to me, so I can slack off all day.
Interesting, software engineers have usually a higher concentration of metalheads, I thought they would be more likely to talk to you when you wear big goth boots.
Has any of them asked you out?
uh, no, they know that I’m happily married
Ah, gotcha. How come the dullness of everydah.y work doesnt cut through the cute dresses and boots?
You guys are wearing clothes?
that’s why they sell unwrinkable shirts
I have some of those, but they somehow only come in very boring uniform colors and they are not totally iron-free, you kinda need to iron them a little bit.
Me watching the new hire do the same
Probably on probation or some similar abusive practice.
technically you can be rewarded. entirely depends on the culture though.
I worked my ass off for years, made myself invaluable to the company and was integral to the daily operations of the entire business.
I was like a tumor, and nobody could take my place.
Do you truly have any idea how many people believe there are “irreplaceable”?
Just to get laid off by the man in the suit?
I’m not disillusioned on how fragile a job is, I’ve been at this far too long not to have seen or experienced it.
should I be “laid off by the man in the suit”, it’s not the end of the world for me. their business would continue to operate, I would collect unemployment.
cracks would slowly start to form at first, then within 6-8 months it would spiral into a mess.
🤷 probably not the attitude you expected but life is too short to care.
point is, the best you can hope for these days is to be the “last man running”.
I love when the noobs rush in to do work as I walk casually so when I get there there’s nothing to do, so I walk casually to the easier job over there —>
MFW people tell me I should proof read my posts
I’ll tell the person in your position hey for you in two weeks
