Re:Toxic positivity does more harm than good
by mdgrech23 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @03:23PM
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I'm kind of in a weird in-between role. Usually when crunch time happens we were well aware that the deadlines were aggressive or the feature was going to be a major PITA to implement and brought that up but executives pull ranked and basically said I don't care figure it out. We're all kind of defenseless honestly, it's just some of us are lucky enough where we're not directly responsible for creating the actual product.
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Re:Toxic positivity does more harm than good
by ciceryadam on Saturday January 16, 2021 @04:08PM
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The executives might not care right now, but when the peons who do the actual crunch time leave, they'll end up with newcomers with no one to train them. Crunch time should be for real emergencies only.
When I learned that my all-weekender overtime was only to keep an internal deadline, I started look for a new position immediately.