Blurring because I don’t want to make a big deal about it, but I also feel awkward replying to you without acknowledging it; Thank you. Admittedly, it took a hot minute, but the seed was planted with your mention and was nurtured as I was writing a followup summary, in which I couldn’t actually pinpoint what exactly I had a problem with what ThrowingGnome was doing. Why yes, I do suffer from overexplaination; why do you ask?
To my company’s benefit, they did provide “training,” which was, in no surprise to of my colleagues, the cheapest way possible. But they also did demand we get certs. That said, I’m sure if they didn’t demand certs, we would have gotten none training but still the demand to use AI
Yeah I feel you on that. I’ve struggled in my career with the back and fourth of losing interest and struggling to complete tasks because they are mandated vs passion projects in super into to an obsession. Heck I got my worst performance review in a decade this year because my job was heavily being micromanaged this last year and I struggle heavily under that kind of leadership structure vs being able to prioritize my tasks on my own…
I also struggle with accepting someone else’s answer to an issue. I’ve got much better at this over time but as a child I couldn’t accept using so one else’s answer or work to complete my own. Like the teacher giving an example of the start of my writing prompt. Nope can’t use that I didn’t come up with it and it’s not interesting now.
Yeah both of my kiddos are autistic and we homeschool because something as simple as “hey buddy you didn’t follow the teachers writing prompt” can lead to more drama than public school can handle. and you can’t give a suggestion because especially my son would then die on that hill before he used the suggestion. You have to inception a new writing idea into his brain.
Well that and also a large number of schools in the district have had shootings and or explosives related issues in the last couple years. That’s a whole different issue though.
Yes I cannot be micromanaged either. About 13 years ago I had a manager here that made me track all my time spent every day in 15 minute increments in an excel file. Right down to how much time I spent tracking how much time I spent tracking my time.
Luckily it only lasted a couple weeks because I probably would have snapped sooner or later. Out of spite I also did almost nothing those two weeks and just lied through my teeth on the tracker.
Micromanagement + Hard hardheadedness + willingness to speak your mind + Pathological Demand Avoidance = Not a great combination
Source: Of course I know him; he is me!
I mean, I’ll do my work too, but don’t expect me to just sit there quietly like a good soldier. I’ll be micro-rage quitting and bit- complaining - about it the whole way and I’ll make it your (micromanager) problem whenever I can get away with it. It shouldn’t matter that you know when I picked my nose and how long it took me to clean out, just that I did the work to which I was assigned
I feel you. The speak your mind bit. I’ve struggled my entire life with this, I’m autistic, I can shut down and be trapped physically unable to speak in social settings. However if you are wrong about something that I care about oh boy am I gonna tell you and bring data and references. This overall has served me well, even in meetings with VPs I would raise my hand and be like excuse me but no here’s 19 reasons you are wrong with data and excel sheets. Historically as long as you aren’t an ahole with this it’s appreciated. There’s nothing wrong with being wrong about something and I’ve been thanked many times for politely correcting senior execs.
Some recent leadership shifts over the last couple years though this has changed. VPs would rather be wrong and politely proving they are wrong and you would be saving their butt is equivalent to spitting in their face.
I meant @TheThrowingGnome is probably the only one that gets to legit say he’s a licensed engineer lol. There are probably a few lurking others that get to say the same too with cool jobs that build physical infrastructure or whatever.
I know you me and a handful of others are technologist with fancy made up titles like “senior network cybersecurity engineer” (yeah that’s my full title in workday it’s gross)
My title is SDE II because that’s easier than saying 10% programmer, 20% sysadmin, 10% telephony troubleshooter, 20% network planner, 10% graphic designer, 10% security reviewer, 20% data scientist, 10% AI babysitter.
Your job is the embodiment of specialized ADHD. Like some of those things don’t belong together (and depending on your thoughts on full stack dev engineer, even more things don’t belong)
and you can’t give a suggestion because especially my son would then die on that hill before he used the suggestion. You have to inception a new writing idea into his brain.
