Build your career on dirty work

Re:Build your career on dirty work by lovehashbrowns on Sunday September 11, 2022 @11:08PM (#32805635)

I’m in this spot now. Being invaluable to a project just means more work gets piled on me because it’s valuable work that needs to get done. I think I have something like 20 jira tickets in my board at the moment. Maybe half of them are complete with a deadline on Friday.

But it also puts me in a spot where my manager feels he has to micromanage me. If I up and quit, it’ll pretty much derail the project many months. And I do feel like quitting. Not because of the amount of work but because I have this micromanager breathing down my neck every day.

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Re:Build your career on dirty work by bennysomething on Monday September 12, 2022 @02:29AM (#32806724)

I was in this position recently. It's pure hell. I moved teams internally. Now I'm happy. It feels like an abusive relationship, you don't realise how bad it was until you leave.

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Re:Build your career on dirty work by 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:39PM (#32832306)

You should really draw a line and tell the manager that if this continues that you will quit. Then it's up to them to either not micromanage you, split tasks to more people or make the deadlines more relaxed. If none of that can be done, you should 100% demand a salary increase. There's no reason not to, if they don't give it to you, you quit.

You have no obligations even if it feels like that. I've had the same exact situation so often and it always felt bad until I started drawing the line

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Re:Build your career on dirty work by pydry on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:22AM (#32807732)

It doesnt feel any better when you leave and they replace you with two people who cost 2x as much.

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