- You get to keep all your current memories and knowledge.
- Everyone/everything else is a clean slate.
- You’re starting now (not going back to the past).
I wouldn’t make it obvious who my work besties are.
- It’s assumed that you’ll gossip with that person, so you won’t get any info that they can’t hear.
- If they’re more than 1 level junior to you, it will take longer to get promotions and raises since you’ll be “junior” by association.
- If they’re the same level and in your team (and they’re a poor performer), you won’t get promoted because it’s assumed you’ll play favorites as their boss.
Sucks. Some of them were not professional and it impacted my optics. I need to pick better friends and set healthier boundaries.
The idea of work friends is a real concern. It only ever works against you, I’ve found. Be friendly with everyone, but don’t become friends.
Hasn’t been my experience at all. I have made some big moves in my career thanks to making friends at work and staying in touch.
I wouldn’t take the job.
People that hired me are not the people running the joint now. And the current people are pretty terrible.
Same here, the manager hiring me left before my employment started. I was a contractor that joined, so I already knew most of the team. Alas, management destroyed the fun in the job. Way to much work, no new knowledged colleagues but we got a truckload of managers to work agile.
Similar situation for me, as well. My company’s taken a turn that’s very successful for the C-suites, but more and more stressful for the rest of us and I’m becoming majorly burnt out.
Master PowerPoint. People still love their PowerPoint.
Serious question. Is this something that GenAI can help with?
It could help you stay on topic and build good opening and summary slides. A good opening slide helps orient the audience and a good closing side summarizes well. Both help in making sure a decision is reached or the audience is aligned after the presentation.
Thank you!
Maybe. I would need it to follow specific brand guidelines and team requests but at the same time know when to make the creative decision to break rules and dismiss requests. I don’t think the tech is there yet. I have already incorporated other AI tools in my workflow but they have only helped on small and simple tasks.
What I really need is for Microsoft to create a version of PowerPoint that’s meant for designers.
Thanks for clarifying. I honestly didn’t know and this is great insight!
no
Try my best to rearrange someone else’s code if it’s too hard to read
Saintly work.
I haven’t coded in years but I recall that reading someone else’s code was like getting a glimpse of what their closets and cupboards probably looked like.
I will demand more money having the know-how of a lifelong industry professional
Preach 🙌
Demand my wfh arrangement be in writing, rather than just a “gentleman’s agreement”
It’s like a corporate prenup.
Well I started last week… so… everything I guess
Congrats on the new job!
Thanks!
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Get a different job.
I wouldn’t start with this company if I was starting today.
This is a very different place than it was when I started.
more anal shoots
Letting it bleed so much into life. My job and my hobby (code) have significant overlap. Stuff I learned on the job started making hobby coding not fun and shortcomings at the job started to feel like my own personal failures. I am slowly learning to separate my work and personal identities, to understand that my employer’s stuff is not my own, and to leave work at work when work ends. I wish I had done that from the first day though.
I would have refused to participate in that Foosball tournament that a coworker begged me to be in because he needed an even number for teams.
A disaster, seriously.
I wouldn’t have caved and joined that Foosball tournament.
I would not have forgotten my phone. Yesterday was my first day
How is your job going?Edit: duplicate comment
How is your job going?
Congrats on the new job!
Thanks!
But you already knew not to forget your phone.
