- be any programmer hired to a job
- do some cool thing that helps the business
- gets labeled as a smart programmer and a helpful team member
- get questions and cries of help from everyone at the office
- get burnt out and refuse to help some people
- get labeled as lazy, bad at my job, and having a bad attitude
- gets shadow fired
- cycle repeats

It’s time to burn down the houses of every rich person - and I hope we actually fully commit this time :)

While always in for burning rich ppl, I would restrain from burning all houses of rich ppl. Who owns a house is rich so this would lead to burning down all houses (which aren't owned by the public), so there won't be much houses left. And where do we live when finally got rid of rich ppl?

@horus Na, its fine, comrade. We can build prefab commie blocks to replace the villas. And the flats become peoperty of the state - so the people can keep living in them.

This has happened to me before, but I dare say that's a problem management has to solve.

If the rest of team can't function without your input, maybe they don't belong there.

And if you can't produce any output because you are constantly side tracked, they should put a formal process in place for it.

The whole "you have a bad attitude" thing is just masking management incompetence.

@oktokolo You are my favorite DevRant user now.

@horus I’m the forests - return to monkey

ah, another worthy member of the software's guild - a TBD side project of mine

divided we are weak, together we can go on strike and make the rich 🤡🤡🤡's suffer and pay us at fair rates

@CoreFusionX this 100% - for my team we aren't bothered by dev colleagues that much, but we get pinged by people from other teams a lot and our manager is very supportive on pushing back on that kind of stuff.

The difficulty with being helpful or going the extra mile sometimes is that inevitably people will expect you to do that all the time.

@alturnativ so true. When u give your 100% they just start to expect 120% and can even get mad that you don't provide that...

@We3D

That's easy to stop in its tracks.

Whenever you are willing to go over 100%, do negotiate before the fact what you are gonna get in return, be it PTO, salary hikes, or whatever.

It's always a trade-off.

If your employer has a record of being quid pro quo with these things, it's good to be lenient.

However, in a big corp where you are a number and all you get is based on an "engineering level", why would you go any extra level beyond what they pay you for, if there's no chance to actually level up?

@CoreFusionX I was too quiet back then, and my boss was pure AH, making me stay 3-4 hours more on a regular basis w/o even bother thinking for overtime payment at all. for 3 years I get only 50 bucks as a salary raise, and no matter I was doing every task it was still not enough for him... That was back then. I've grown up ( a bit ) after that and value my time more ( at least my free time, I'm still selling to low, but that's fine for now )