I had this coworker who was a sysadmin. My degree is in computer science. His was not even in tech. His code is bad. I taught him to code better. He thinks I taught him object oriented programming, but I didn’t, I taught him functional programming. I taught him to use functions instead of repeating his code a hundred times. He still doesn’t know what object oriented code is, but he thinks he’s doing it.
So naturally, the boss promoted him to my manager and had him review my code, while code he wrote at 1am on 5 espressos in his free time with zero oversight becomes part of the business’s core platform.
The moral of the story is do free work for your company in your free time, and the boss will let you run the business into the ground.
I feel like this is more “how we feel we get perceived by others” moreso.
I try and perceive all the members of my team as, well, my team. I heavily appreciate everyone busting their assess off and contributions.
However, there are folks on each layer that do actually treat others like this and I think we can all agree those people suuuuck.
I had this coworker who was a sysadmin. My degree is in computer science. His was not even in tech. His code is bad. I taught him to code better. He thinks I taught him object oriented programming, but I didn’t, I taught him functional programming. I taught him to use functions instead of repeating his code a hundred times. He still doesn’t know what object oriented code is, but he thinks he’s doing it.
So naturally, the boss promoted him to my manager and had him review my code, while code he wrote at 1am on 5 espressos in his free time with zero oversight becomes part of the business’s core platform.
The moral of the story is do free work for your company in your free time, and the boss will let you run the business into the ground.