For me:

Sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you work, your going to get laid off either way.
Just showing up can sometimes make the difference.
Your not paid to be a software developer. Your being paid to be a problem solver.

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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Reward for being even slightly competent and having work ethic is more work. To the point where you are doing everything until you break.

If you do something that needed to be done out of curtesy it'll become your responsibility.

If you want to find someone who understand something about the corporation, look at the basement.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    A corollary to your first one: if you take on extra work people will forget it is extra work when it's not delivered on time or has issues. It does not matter how much the first three people fucked it up, you touched it last.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    People will only forget, if you let them. I always make sure my contributions are very clearly visible. That of course presupposes that you have meaningful contributions to make visible.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It seams like you may be well-fit for this type of envoirement.

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