He /she hires you because you have an A-1 rating in your field and your expertise is needed. You lay out what needs to be done and your recommendations are ignored. You say parallel and they go perpendicular. The job goes crap and your name is on it.
油井緋色;2597356 said:Am a software developer.
4 years ago, not even graduated yet, I told my CTO and manager at the time that they had made a horrible tech choice as there were obvious signs Microsoft would drop support. 1 year later, Microsoft dropped support. The results of these mistakes, which need to be fixed, are now mine.
4 years ago, again, I created a prototype/proof-of-concept to automate something that would cost the company $100k/y. I also specifically told them to not use the prototype in production as it wasn't structurally sound or meant to be extended. I go back to school, come back 8 months later, and see that some moron had taken my POCs and extended them without changing the foundations. Every one of these extensions are now broken. And of course, I have to fix this now.
3 years ago, I tried to get the stakeholders to meet with each other with me as the mediator because their requirements were literally clashing. They did, but never took my questions seriously probably because I'm young looking and not white (every upper management dude is white here.) Well, now they're fighting amongst each other because the system I created is based on their clashing suggestions and I had to interpret a bunch of **** via crystal ball. The worst part about this is that I actually understand every department's role very well, and even the ****ing president doesn't based on my conversations with him.
Forget my boss, I would never work with this company in the future. I would even urge my future employers to run if we need to work with them. Only reason why I'm here is because, frankly, everyone is too technologically retarded to realize I've automated most of my job so I sit around in the stairwell playing the Nintendo Switch frequently.
"Is the bike OK?".
Methinks you might work at a bank?I’ve gone from a manager of people to an employee and rarely find it difficult to manage my manager and make my life fairly easy.
I can identify with the challenges they have and have an empathetic ear. I also understand what they are looking for from me and know it may not be the same as what I think I should be doing.
Some bosses are complete ***** and found they rarely stay where they are. It’s also a small world so, as a rule, I don’t call them out publicly as I may end up working with them in some way or another.
If I get caught in something I’ve said about them, I can generally state something positive about their knowledge or experience and in the same breath state they are not a good manager of people.
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Methinks you might work at a bank?
sounds like you need to be self employed
油井緋色;2597356 said:3 years ago, I tried to get the stakeholders to meet with each other with me as the mediator because their requirements were literally clashing. They did, but never took my questions seriously probably because I'm young looking and not white (every upper management dude is white here.)
油井緋色;2597821 said:...........this is actually the best advice I've ever been given.
Thank you lol
A friend of mine does this, she is just a programmer, and does very well for herself. Works at home most of the time and takes care of her 2 kids.
Also from the sounds of it either you are too eager or the people you work with don't respect you (or enough). People in charge sometimes are intimidated by people with better ideas or they don't like to be told how to run things (even if you don't say it like that).
So much this.Quote from the movie "Bridge on the river Kwai" you must be happy in your work.
But I highly recommend follow the money for a while anyway. You cant buy happy, but you can sure buy a lot of distractions.