Re:I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
by ketzo on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:12PM
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> it isn't necessarily in your company's best interest to try to keep you happy
This is true -- but your manager won't always act in your company's exact best interest either! I do think "management are human beings, too" is pretty important to remember.
> The loss of some fraction of X is always going to hurt the company more than your gain in Y will benefit them
I don't think you can assume this is always true. What if X is jQuery and Y is Typescript? Or X is oldLegacyCodebase and Y is newProjectInBurgeoningField?
This is true -- but your manager won't always act in your company's exact best interest either! I do think "management are human beings, too" is pretty important to remember.
> The loss of some fraction of X is always going to hurt the company more than your gain in Y will benefit them
I don't think you can assume this is always true. What if X is jQuery and Y is Typescript? Or X is oldLegacyCodebase and Y is newProjectInBurgeoningField?