4 ms·
Being pegged as the 'xyz guy' for any tech in your group is usually a bad idea. Instead of taking on tasks that should be trivial for someone to do, they shuff
by sumtechguy 4y ago
Being pegged as the 'xyz guy' for any tech in your group is usually a bad idea. Instead of taking on tasks that should be trivial for someone to do, they shuffle it off to you because you 'know xyz'. I have 3 techs I never speak of to others because of that very reason. They are not necessarily dead end techs. But something others do not want to ever learn while they do 'real work'. I have taken to 'spread the wealth' type tasks for others in the group. I will not necessarily be in the group even next week...
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThis is the opposite of what I have seen, but I work in materials tech and not software. If you leverage your position as a point person well, you can find a lot of collaboration opportunities and expand your knowledge-base quite efficiently.
- Spooky23 4y agoA lot of times IT gets positioned as a service entity, inferior to the adults in the room, so the “xyz guy” is more like the janitor specialist for mopping vs. a valued stakeholder. It’s one of those warning signs about an organization. When you’re collaborating with fellow engineers, it’s a completely different dynamic.
- sumtechguy 4y agoThis is true too. You can bring some interesting skills to play and be valuable. But you have to watch out for this 'i do not want to learn that tech' going on. They will do everything to not work on that thing, and not learn that tech, and bring your name up every opportunity for when that work needs to be done. It does make you valuable in an odd way. But you can quickly find all you do is the things they do not want to do, and they pad out their resume for whatever new cool tech is coming up.