I've found myself saying "not my job" the other day. I took this as a confirmation that it's time to leave the company (something I felt was approaching for som

I've found myself saying "not my job" the other day. I took this as a confirmation that it's time to leave the company (something I felt was approaching for some time now). This is because I'm very much the guy that "makes shit work" (comes with being a jack-of-all-trades kind of hacker, or maybe just with giving a damn about my work). "Hey, remember how we've set up that postfix-to-python email bot three years ago?" - I do. "Hey, the finance data import on the MIS is broken" - Ok, let me have a look .. there, I fixed it. This I don't mind. In fact I quite enjoy it. However, in turn I do expect something back. The first and obvious thing I expect is that you don't mind that the software project I'm working on is going to be a few days delayed because I spent time digging in the bowels of some open source tool or staring at Wireshark. The other, and maybe not so obvious thing I expect is that you a) listen to my suggestions and b) don't get in the way of me working efficiently. What this means is that if I suggest you should go with solution A and not solution B (which your pricey external consultant suggested) and I take the time to show you several good reasons (not my job either, but comes with giving a damn) why solution A will work reliably and solution B will come biting you in the ass later, then you at least hear me out. And then when solution B comes biting you in the ass and you come to me to work it out, at least give me the means to sort it out properly instead of forcing me to follow your pricey consultant down the slippery slope of exceedingly horrible workarounds, all of which I have to handhold him through and waste massive amounts of time because he can't use email and needs to do schedule a conference call in several days time with subjects such as "confirm the VPN is working". Because once I'm sufficiently annoyed, I will gladly tell your consultant that something "isn't my job" just so he stops bothering me. And then I write my notice, because I don't like working like this.