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I picked up a book on politics, specifically some academic nerd who I guess was doing geopolitics consulting, and he advocated that burning bridges actually helps you in negotiations because then you can say "my hands are tied" and basically look like you'll win the game of chicken
I was so mad reading that book. anyway we might have a ww3 / nukes hitting again cuz some asshats are too busy playing chicken for no reason
applicable example for an employee: "I can't take a salary that low! I got kids!" or something. like you can't off your kids. if they want you and got no choice they can't negotiate you down in that salary now. but to be honest I guess a company wouldn't care enough about kids
another one would be a co-worker deleting old code so you go with the new version he wrote or something, or he does a last change before management gets to see it and it would take you too long to revert it. all them shitty things -
I've dated my exes. not a bad deal. I've never done a round 2 thinking I'd park there and get married though
jobs by their nature are transient anyway. it's a fling. which evidently looks bad on you if you only do it for 3-6 months but quite honestly who wants to stay around a place long enough
if a round 2 sounds like a fun party and drunk time why not vacation a bit with this disaster again. plus it's fun to see old people and see where they ended up I think. I learn the dynamics of evolution which helps me predict things better later
bonus, they're more desperate the second time around! -
@Demolishun thing is, I don't think they know what they want at this point.
Also, even if they offered me a management position, I wouldn't accept.
It's just a soulsucking workplace and I'm over it.
The truth, whole truth, and nothing but there truth.
Everything is going as planned
Sometimes it's better to burn a bridge so you don't even think about crossing it in the future.
See, I left a company some years ago because I didn't see my future in it and all management combined had a collective intelligence of a chicken.
However, I got a call from them a couple of months ago asking me if I could return. The salary was double and the working arrangement seemed fine. On paper. WFH. Flexibile hours...
Since I actually liked the project itself for its technical challenge, I accepted the return offer. What a bad idea that was.
Of course, the things that made me leave for the first time had only gotten worse. Bad leadership, idiot developers in team leader positions. Tech debt higher than Mount Everest. Bad infra that makes you want to off yourself every time you work on it. The whole circus.
Seriously, the "senior" team leader will happily merge code that includes assert(true == true), but hold up a well written MR because he has a personal vendetta with the developer.
Personally, I always check him whenever he starts being an ass. But the poor juniors are in hell. They're terrified.
Now I'm leaving again, but this time I've made sure I can't come back.
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