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I currently only have one chip, which is the pay cut I took to work here. If I use that chip right away, it screams entitlement, which is only compounded by my
by EC1 11y ago
I currently only have one chip, which is the pay cut I took to work here. If I use that chip right away, it screams entitlement, which is only compounded by my age. I need to finish the rest of their product and really wrap everything up and prove my worth in relation to their previous developers with hard numbers. Then I need to convince the other employees to side with me.
Only then I can play a full hand instead of pleading and begging and being at their mercy.
The first chip only benefits me. The first two benefit me and the founders. All three benefit everyone in the company.
I think I'll sit on it for awhile longer and go with this strategy. It's perfect because it makes sense for everyone, and if they reject it I know it's not the right company for me because at that level, that decision would be coming from a place of fear, and that's not somewhere I want to work.
- thatcat 11y ago>Then I need to convince the other employees to side with me. This seems like a bit much. Why involve the other employees?
- EC1 11y agoI don't want to magically be the only one who gets to be special and work from home. There's only a few of us, we're in a shared office with our laptops. They've also voiced their discontent.
- kspaans 11y agoTry easing into it with a "everyone gets 1 WorkFromHome day a week" policy. If there is an enterprisey vacation-planning tool you use already, WFH can be added as a special kind of vacation. This means the managers can approve WFH requests so that, e.g. not everyone works from home the same day of the week.
- dragonwriter 11y agoSince WFH breaks in person coordination, you actually probably are better off with the whole team doing it at the same time. I mean, for something like software development.