Comment by itake

6 days ago

> It is their resposibility to figure this out.

You're responsible for your own career.

During the next calibration call, your manager can't be like, "well he spent 8 hours each week resetting up his machine after a reboot, so we need to give him credit for that too."

Your job is to deliver impact, not fight system configurations.

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GTP  6 days ago

Indeed. The configuration isn't your responsibility, but it becomes so if you try to circumvent it and something goes wrong. What would the manager say during the calibration call if a ransomware infection started from this employee's laptop, after they disabled the company-mandated security software? They probably wouldn't even care to figure it out if the security product in question would've been able to stop that specific ransomware.

darkstar_16  6 days ago

If your boss is not able to back you up for something like this, it's time to change job.

  • awakeasleep  6 days ago

    During the compensation calibration meetings, there is no boss in the world that would be able to argue anything to your benefit

    • square_usual  5 days ago

      If you think so you've only ever worked in a trash org. If my productivity was hurt by things outside my control I'd expect (and have had) managers to fight for me.

    • zamadatix  6 days ago

      This has to be the most depressing comment I've read this week. I assure you, not all places are like this. Especially mid-smalll, but even some pockets inside large-mega.

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    • itake  5 days ago

      There are two critical conversations during this meetings:

      Do we promote this guy? Do we fire this guy?

      It doesn’t matter what the excuse is or the size of the company, if you don’t have impact for the next level you’re not promoted. Put simply, you’re not getting promoted rebooting your machine.

      Maybe your boss can defend you from a conversation, especially if the problem is systematic (impacting the whole team).

wqaatwt  6 days ago

Ideally you’d just leave a shithole company like this (of course these days it might be exactly feasible..)

I suppose filling out a ticker or two every day and constantly bothering IT non-stop might be rhetorical best option (assumings one has enough energy for that)