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Yes, and I (nearly) live this nightmare. I have someone higher up in the food chain who is fascinated with every new piece of software they find, that MIGHT be
by IAmBroom 1y ago
Yes, and I (nearly) live this nightmare. I have someone higher up in the food chain who is fascinated with every new piece of software they find, that MIGHT be useful. We are often tasked with "looking at it, and seeing if it would be useful".
Yeah, let me shoehorn that fishing trip into my schedule without a charge number, along with the one from last week...
- colecut 1y agoDoes he ask you to "figure out how to implement AI"? That is what my boss asks us to do =p
- IAmBroom 1y agoNo, fortunately as an engineering firm (construction), we have strong corporate guidelines on usage of that Pandora's Box.
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- al_borland 1y agoI was the go-to guy for this under my former boss, but he let me do pretty much whatever I wanted, so it usually wasn’t an issue to not work on anything else while playing around with new stuff. Though there was a time when he wanted me to onboard my simple little internal website to a big complicated CICD system, just so we could see how it worked and if it would be useful for other stuff. It wouldn’t have been useful for anything else, and I already had a script that would deploy updates to my site that was simple, fast, and reliable. I simply ignored every request to look into that. Other times I could tell him his idea wouldn’t work, and he would say “ok” and walk away. That was that. This accounted for about 30% of what he came to me with.