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What do you value most? If that level of decision is “above your pay grade,” once you make the recommendation it is out if your hands. And you keep getting pa

What do you value most? If that level of decision is “above your pay grade,” once you make the recommendation it is out if your hands. And you keep getting paid. Knowing the company made a stupid choice. (Maybe.) Is the money enough? Or will this eat at you? Will it keep you up at night? Can you implement it without getting caught and without losing any ongoing updates and changes? It is useless if a month from now you complete the work and the “legacy” app now does X while your changes do not. Willing to insist you were right if someone catches you? How sure are you? Willing to be wrong? Have you shown the data structure change? Did anyone have further comment? More senior folks will give estimates that sound pessimistic to less senior folks because more senior folks typically add a “shit happens” modifier. Everyone calls it something a little different. I don’t think anyone calls it that. But if you say a month, and that expects a solid month of uninterrupted time, then it isn’t a month. You can give up, keep advocating, or go rogue. Advocating takes longer, but may have better chance for success and recognition. But cowboying shit also happens. Good, bad, or ugly. And most importantly, maybe revisit this after one of the worst periods annually for productivity. People are on vacation, or dreaming about it. There’s a good chance they are incapable of considering your proposal honestly until, well, early 2023.

throwaway1285 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't see this before: >What do you value most? >If that level of decision is “above your pay grade,” once you make the recommendation it is out if your hands. And you keep getting paid. Knowing the company made a stupid choice. (Maybe.) >Is the money enough? Or will this eat at you? Will it keep you up at night? It's definitely going to bother me. Not so much that my recommendation won't be followed but that working in the legacy monolith is so terrible and takes forever to do anything. And that the end product is bad. Definitely not worth the money long term but it's not the right time for me to switch jobs. Need to put another year here before I'm in a good position to get a promotion with my next jump. >Can you implement it without getting caught and without losing any ongoing updates and changes? Not into production. It's a customer facing app and would need to be hooked into the various user tracking, monitoring, and logging we have. I can keep building it on my work machine without anyone knowing. >Have you shown the data structure change? Did anyone have further comment? Not yet. >And most importantly, maybe revisit this after one of the worst periods annually for productivity. People are on vacation, or dreaming about it. There’s a good chance they are incapable of considering your proposal honestly until, well, early 2023. Yeah unfortunately that was what happened. A decision needed to be made before the holidays so that we could start building Q1.

throwaway1285 4y ago

Sorry, I didn't see this before: >What do you value most? >If that level of decision is “above your pay grade,” once you make the recommendation it is out if your hands. And you keep getting paid. Knowing the company made a stupid choice. (Maybe.) >Is the money enough? Or will this eat at you? Will it keep you up at night? It's definitely going to bother me. Not so much that my recommendation won't be followed but that working in the legacy monolith is so terrible and takes forever to do anything. And that the end product is bad. Definitely not worth the money long term but it's not the right time for me to switch jobs. Need to put another year here before I'm in a good position to get a promotion with my next jump. >Can you implement it without getting caught and without losing any ongoing updates and changes? Not into production. It's a customer facing app and would need to be hooked into the various user tracking, monitoring, and logging we have. I can keep building it on my work machine without anyone knowing. >Have you shown the data structure change? Did anyone have further comment? Not yet. >And most importantly, maybe revisit this after one of the worst periods annually for productivity. People are on vacation, or dreaming about it. There’s a good chance they are incapable of considering your proposal honestly until, well, early 2023. Yeah unfortunately that was what happened. A decision needed to be made before the holidays so that we could start building Q1.