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> that's not because of the reasons listed here If we take one of your examples, „the company is on the brink of collapse and you're one of the 3 engineers hol
by thih9 7y ago
> that's not because of the reasons listed here
If we take one of your examples, „the company is on the brink of collapse and you're one of the 3 engineers holding it together.”, we could still apply advice from the article: „Learn to say "no" more often. Know your limits. It's easy to over-commit”. It seems as if it would still help.
- smallcharleston 7y agoI agree. If you’re one of 3 engineers holding it together, that’s the company’s problem (unless you won’t be able to find another job). If the other 2 engineers start working all the time to try and hold it together, that’s their problem (unless you won’t be able to find another job). I don’t know why people sometimes seem so willing to take responsibility for other peoples’ business decisions. I’m young and inexperienced but in my opinion there’s a difference between “willing to work extra late on something occasionally when something unexpected comes up and working late will actually help”, which is helpful for the team, and just getting killed because of bad decisions other people did, or business circumstances that are beyond your pay grade.