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Overwhelmed with work (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Maybe I'm desperate for social interaction or maybe it's just a hyper-focus trigger. I'll spend hours of my time trying to help someone else when it's something I am good and confident at doing.

I literally wish there was a position at a company for someone that just went around listening to people's problems or complaints and then was able to offer solutions or optimizations.

This is probably autism kicking in a bit. But I need a new problem to solve each day and no job offers this. If I can't hyper-focus a solution in a day or two. I just lose interest and stop caring.

Oh this thing is due in two weeks? Sounds like something that I don't give a shit about.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm 100% with you on the "traveling helper" idea. I love hearing about a pain point from someone during a meeting and thinking I have an idea for that... Like you said, I'll spend hours ignoring my actual work in order to help make this other person's job easier. In the past, I've referred to myself as a "force multiplier" by doing things to make other people's jobs easier, and I think this fits that quite well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It's not something appreciated until you're gone sadly.

    My first job out of college was at Cisco. I worked on the software team but all our work was done on hardware in remote labs. So a lot of the job was just getting connected to that hardware in lab.

    I wrote a bunch of scripts to automate reservation of hardware, remote power cycle, running tests. It was all initially to make my life easier. Would get asked to share them by other engineers.

    Eventually after 4 years I had a complete library written that our entire team was using. I wonder if they're still being used today. I liked writing those scripts and helping other engineers more than my actual job.

    If those scripts broke after I left I would assume the entire team probably lossed productivity significantly.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is actually something I'm actively worried about.

    At my current job, I've made a bunch of QoL improvements to various spreadsheets and slack channels, primarily (relatively) simple scripts to automate things. While I'm nowhere near a "programmer", no one else really has any experience with it. I'm looking for a different job and am worried that if something breaks after I leave, it's going to screw over my coworkers. They'd either have to ask an actual Dev/Eng to take a look, or go back to the old way.

    Beyond Dev/Eng likely just not having the time, who knows what fuckery the Pandora's box of "hey, can you take a look at this script written by a guy who's no longer here?" holds, so I would completely understand them declining to go anywhere near it.

    If I do end up leaving, I'd like to be able to dedicate a good chunk of my last two weeks writing comments and guides and making sure things are as robust as possible. 🫤

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    You're not screwing over your coworkers. Your company/boss is by not (1) not paying you more for the value you bring or (2) they're not prepared to have you leave.

    Its not your fault at all and you shouldn't feel bad. Hell, you should use it as leverage along with a job offer to get a massive pay raise.

    DO NOT do prep work for your company for free in your last few weeks if they are not asking you to. Do as little work as possible. You are the value. Not your scripts. Charge them $200/hr if they come crying after you leave.

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