Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?

Re:Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment? by malux85 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:10AM (#24532419)

Take a break, you must. I know it always feels like you can’t, but you can’t keep working, you will snap.

Programmers are hard to replace, it hard to find a good one, and it takes time to ramp up a new one with a codebase. You have more negotiating power than you think.

Your comment struck me because I have been in that position before, and I know it really really hurts. But you gotta look out for yourself. Please take a week or two off

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Re:Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment? by greenyoda on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:25AM (#24532682)

> You have more negotiating power than you think.

That assumes that their manager (1) is aware of how hard it is to find a good programmer, and (2) is rational.

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Re:Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment? by malux85 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:45AM (#24532937)

If either of those conditions is satisfied then imo it's time to go. Who wants to work for an irrational manager? (actual lol)

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Re:Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment? by narwally on Sunday September 20, 2020 @12:51PM (#24535110)

Agreed. If you can't negotiate where you at, then start the negotiations somewhere else.

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Re:Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment? by chris_wot on Sunday September 20, 2020 @10:09AM (#24534131)

Well, only a rational manager knows how hard it is to replace a good programmer...

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