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I believe this attitude is important because you will get destroyed otherwise. If you are invaluable to the point of the company not functioning well without y
by gscott 8y ago
I believe this attitude is important because you will get destroyed otherwise.
If you are invaluable to the point of the company not functioning well without you... that is when the knife comes out.. then management of any kind will want to slice and dice your job into 6 different jobs and fire you even if those 6 people combined can't do the same job at the level you did.
- shostack 8y agoTo be fair to "management," having invaluable company contributions that could tank a company were that contributor to no longer be there is a huge risk to all employed there that should be mitigated against. It would be irresponsible of leaders in that company to make the company overly reliant on any one contributor. I know I certainly wouldn't want to work somewhere that would implode if a single person left, and for any decent-sized company, I imagine many others would share that sentiment in terms of the risk involved. In fact, while I feel many of my personal contributions are valuable, I'm ALWAYS thinking about how I can automate/document/spread around my efforts so as to provide some resiliency should I get hit by a bus, etc.