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kleinbl00  ·  1992 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 12, 2019

    So I'm in a good place. And without a manager. Or really anyone who understands what I do here... everyone just knows that my job is finicky and annoying and should be three people, and I do it happily as one, so they just let me do what I do, and stay out of my way.

Just be careful. They might decide they know better. I worked for a company that was named to the Forbes Fastest 500 the year before. They held a board-level meeting to figure out what to do with the fact that I was overworked and nobody knew how to do my job. Their solution was to lay me off because it was easier than thinking. It ended up costing them about $21m in lost business.

Losing that job was among the best things that ever happened to me but I still lost it on their terms, not mine.