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I remember this from my time in banking. For those not familiar, essentially you need to disappear for two weeks a year without access to anything. This is basi
by JCM9 4y ago
I remember this from my time in banking. For those not familiar, essentially you need to disappear for two weeks a year without access to anything. This is basically a safeguard to make sure that operations are robust and won’t just fall over if you’re not there. It’s also to make sure you’re not cooking up something nefarious that requires you to be there every day and keep an eye on it.
- mooreds 4y agoI think that time away from a job has tremendous value for everyone. beyond the finance industry. Let's ignore the fun and regenerative benefits of vacations to the vacation-taker. For the business: * It's a real life test of what happens if an employee quits/resigns, with less impact (a team member will probably be able to reach them in an emergency). * You can test your operational robustness (as mentioned by the parent comment). * It exposes holes in processes and documentation that have been papered over by a human. * The vacation may reveal tasks which can be delegated to others or not done at all (timeline depending, of course).
- lupire 4y agoIt's bad for the employee, by making them less uniquely valuable.
- mooreds 4y agoHaha, can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. Here are my general thoughts on that: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2021/09/13/always-be-replacing-yourself/ https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2021/09/13/always-be-repl... tl;dr "...you should always be looking at ways to replace yourself. This will free you up to work on new tasks and learn new things."
- matwood 4y agoAlso, frees someone up to be promoted.
- csours 4y agoDamn. This just hit home for me really hard. On a previous team, I would take on tasks, learn what's going on, and then try to get a team mate up to speed so I wouldn't be the only one who knew how to run things. I feel like none of my team mates really took on those tasks or aspects of the work. Over time this made me really angry at the team. It really shut down my brain because I had so many things to juggle. I really wish I could have replaced myself. I wound up just leaving the team, I think they struggled for a while. When you're on a team with someone who seems to know everything, some people are much less motivated to learn the system. Also, sometimes things just suck. Sometimes you just have a team of jaded short-timers about to leave. Sometimes you have a team of junior employees who can "make things work" but leave a trail of half baked decisions.
- lmkg 4y ago"Don't be indispensable. If you're indispensable, you can't be promoted." -Flavor text from Netrunner CCG (1996)
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoIf you're at that spot where being promoted means that your life will get worse, it's ok to be indispensable.
- ghaff 4y agoThere are certainly employees who think that they're so uniquely valuable that it would be unthinkable for them to take a 3-4 week vacation. Their employer, for the most part, does not suffer from the same delusion.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoI took a week off recently. My teammates just sat on multiple “24 hour turnaround” requests until I got back, because they were too used to thinking of it as my job to bother even opening them.
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