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> - you will get no credit for avoiding a catastrophic failure that didn’t happen. Worse, people may wonder what you’ve been doing (y2k anyone?) This is so tru
by cgh 4y ago
> - you will get no credit for avoiding a catastrophic failure that didn’t happen. Worse, people may wonder what you’ve been doing (y2k anyone?)
This is so true it hurts. I worked for years at a certain Silicon Valley BigCorp on a low-level networking library with one other guy. We of course had bugs but we managed them and delivered on time. It was therefore assumed that our library was "easy" (it wasn't) and the buggy deliverables that made up other parts of the application were "hard" (they often weren't). So the folks who eventually delivered the buggy libraries got the recognition while we toiled more or less in obscurity. It was a bitter lesson in the importance of self-promotion.
- qwertygerty 4y agoI feel you. In one of my jobs, despite the output being different, I eventually realised that management perceived the guys who bitch the most, as the most hard working. In reality, their bitching was a fascade to allow them slack. Quietly working through tough situations made it seem like all was well, even easy. The loud guys got all the attention, and praise; "wow, after all of that pain, you perservered, here is a nice bonus for you" :facepalm