Re:Ask HN: Do you hate your job?
by giantg2 on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:15PM
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I do reflect often on that. Unfortunately, most of the things I noticed show a decline. Things like reduction in promotion opportunity, starting outsourcing, using layoffs when they didn't before, and lower pay raises. Then there's the technical problems where tools break more often, we're expected to do more (multi-stack fullstack, combine roles, shared resources), and no opportunities to become an expert due to constant context switching.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you hate your job?
by cableshaft on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:49AM
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Don't stick around hoping things will get better. It most likely won't. Even if the company turns things around financially, it will likely either take too long to trickle down to you or they'll continue thinking they can keep getting away with less.
I've done that waiting game a couple of times before, and regretted it both times.
Job market seems to be super hot right now. Turn on your LinkedIn 'open to work' switch and hopefully it'll be like me and your inbox will suddenly get swarmed with recruiters. I'm not even in a major tech market.
Re:Ask HN: Do you hate your job?
by oldsklgdfth on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:01AM
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Personally, I keep a list of issues I face daily. From network outages to uncommunicating coworkers. Most of these come with the territory. Others are absolute deal-breakers. Those are the ones I keep an eye on.
Ex. we have a team member that obviously lies about working. Not the results, literally what he does all day. He sets his status to available, logs into his VM (I guess he figured out we were collecting that information) and basically is being deceitful. Management is dragging its feet. This is a deal-breaker if not resolved.