Re:Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
by mikelyons on Saturday January 26, 2019 @07:57PM
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How do you fight for this? What leverage do you have? There's another kid that can do the job just as well, directly behind you. I am possibly wrong, but I would really like an answer about how to fight for more compensation, it seems that we are expendable ...
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Re:Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
by zanny on Sunday January 27, 2019 @01:23AM
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If you are expendable expect to be exploited. Its why so many programmers go out of their way to become needed - if you are the only one who properly understands critical code in your business, you have leverage. If they can replace you with a week of onboarding you are going to be treated like dirt most places.
Sometimes that means not going out of your way to explain how you implemented a feature. If your company is going to treat you like an expendable money sink treat them like a hostile actor too.