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I have an alternate solution: grow a backbone. Do not put up with childish/ignorant behavior. If your immediate superior harasses you for doing the job you ar

I have an alternate solution: grow a backbone. Do not put up with childish/ignorant behavior. If your immediate superior harasses you for doing the job you are being paid for you need to go over their head. I've had to deal with this while doodling/sketching ideas on a whiteboard. Not being firm with people does you no favors and makes them think their initial assessment was correct.

w1ntermute 16y ago
> If your immediate superior harasses you for doing the job you are being paid for you need to go over their head. His problem isn't with his superiors, it's with his co-workers: > If you don't stare at boring stuff on the monitor for 8 hours straight, co-workers suspect you being a slacker. Yes, not the managers who see the output. Only the co-workers who see the process and can't relate to this kind of work.
- jrockway 16y ago
  Incidentally, I never look at my coworkers' monitors, but I still know who isn't doing anything. It's simple: if this week's status update is exactly the same as last week's, then you didn't do anything. Whether you typed stuff in the IDE and nothing worked or you just read Slashdot all day doesn't really matter. (Everyone has one of these weeks, of course, or I do anyway. But when it's every week for a year, well, that doesn't look so good.)