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Most of my career I've been the guy people come to when they get stuck and need a second pair of eyes or just advice. I enjoy it, we all have to start somewhere
by throwaway7767 10y ago
Most of my career I've been the guy people come to when they get stuck and need a second pair of eyes or just advice. I enjoy it, we all have to start somewhere. For the most part this has been considered a positive by my bosses, because they see the value this creates even if it's not technically my core job.
I did however once work at a company that was very metric-focused. Turns out that the metric they used for our team was closed tickets, and they felt that given my salary I didn't close enough of them. No understanding whatsoever that others on the team were able to close more tickets because of my help (let alone that the tickets that made their way to me tended to be the complicated ones that others couldn't solve). After the first talking to, I stopped helping out my teammembers (I explained why) - and jumped on the first opportunity to get out of there.