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Comment by HdS84

1 day ago

One of our managers uses Ai to summarize everything. Too bad it missed important caveats for an offer. Well, we burned an all nighters to correct the offer, but he did not read twenty pages but one...

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namaria  1 day ago

I don't know if this is the case but be careful about shielding management from the consequences of their bad choices at your expense. It all but guarantees it will get worse.

  • kortilla  1 day ago

    Letting a thing implode that you could prevent is a missed opportunity for advancement and a risk to your career because you will be on a failing team.

    The smarter move is to figure out how to fix it for the company while getting visibility for it.

    • bluefirebrand  1 day ago

      > Letting a thing implode that you could prevent is a missed opportunity for advancement

      No matter how many times I bail out my managers it seems that my career has never really benefit from it

      I've only ever received significant bumps to salary or job title by changing jobs

    • stavros  16 hours ago

      I don't know what your experience is, but mine is the opposite. Nobody ever notices people who put out fires, and it's hard to should "hey guys! There's a fire here that John started, I'm putting it out!" without looking like a jerk for outing John.

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    • namaria  1 day ago

      You are right. I don't think the only alternative to shielding management from the consequences of their bad choices is letting things implode and going down with the ship.

    • spookie  19 hours ago

      yup, an employee is more than just a gear, better keep the motor running than explode along with the other parts.

  • bluGill  1 day ago

    Management should be hiring lawyers for those details anyway...

    • HdS84  12 hours ago

      Wasn't even legal but concerned the scope of the offer. Nuance, but nuance can be important. Like "rework the service and add minor festures" VS "slightly rework and do major features" - this affected the direction of our offer a lot.

BeetleB  1 day ago

Did he pull all nighters to fix it? If not, it wasn't "too bad" for him. I doubt he'll change his behavior.

pjc50  17 hours ago

Where's the IBM slide about "a machine cannot be held accountable, therefore a machine should never make a management decision"?

Of course, often it's quite hard to hold management accountable either.