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Worked for a great boss on a great team building some really cool stuff. We had some organizational problems and the boss wouldn't stop people from doing stuff
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
Worked for a great boss on a great team building some really cool stuff. We had some organizational problems and the boss wouldn't stop people from doing stuff that was actively harmful, but I dealt with it best I could. Then a new boss came in and made all new work be about "getting wins", and trying hail-mary stuff that, if it worked, would make him look like a genius so he could get a promotion, but would leave us holding the bag trying to deal with the tech debt and not actually improving the project. If we disagreed, new boss would yell at team to get his way, force us to do whatever he wanted rather than letting us have a discussion, weigh pros/cons, generally have agency and some input. I created a presentation detailing all of the problems and solutions for all of them, and presented them to the new boss and boss's boss. Both of them chewed me out for not doing more myself to solve the problems and only complaining. Soon after my contract was not renewed. That's when I found out that if you make your boss(es) look bad, it's in their interest to get rid of you.