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Grated by my own doom (into nothingness).
On the bright side being indispensable makes me impervious to layoffs.
I wish this was true
While it’s no guarantee, it’s true more sometimes than not
Yes but, I just found out that I’m so competent and trustworthy that since management needs to shuffle the supervisors around and the only way to make it work is to leave me in charge of the team for several hours without a supervisor. So now I’m looking at “we’d love to promote you but you’re just to valuable in your current role”. It a damned of you do, damned if you don’t situation.
You may be able to leverage that for benefits like WFH days or higher raises than rest of team.
Well the team is already WFH, but I am hoping that the job turns into a slight promotion and I will mention that during the next meeting with the department head. Also weighing my options with other parts of the company.
Best of luck!
Thanks
Start applying for new jobs. Take your team with you.
There’s openings in other parts of the company, though I do have it good otherwise in my current department so I will have to do some research this weekend. The major limiting factor for me is that I’m region locked due to family constraints. As for taking my team with me…there’s only one person I would want to take and he’s basically right where he wants to be, so he’s not leaving.
Yeah you just get to do the work of 3+ people as others get laid off and the workload shifted to you, until you can’t actually manage to keep up and then either get laid off or quit…
Yeah that’s true. Never said anything about being happy. Or it being sustainable. Sometimes it’s all you can do to survive.
I refer to this as “the curse of competence”
I used to think I was an idiot, that everyone around me knew what they were doing and I didn’t.
Later I joined the work force and I now I kind of wish I was an idiot because no one seems to know what they’re doing and that is existentially dreadful.
The next stage in personal growth is to help others grow more competent and learn to delegate. That means you can then focus on the stuff only you can do.
At least that’s what I’m learning.
That requires people who are willing/able to learn. I have put together so many documents detailing a procedure with clear instructions and screenshots and still have coworkers who can’t figure it out. Hell, the number of people who can’t run a goddamned script to do it for them ( also with instructions and pictures!!) is also too goddamned high!
Same. in my case I have soooo much documentation it overwhelms everyone. Every day it’s always something new so it keeps growing.
Been there too. The advantage of writing the document though is that it means you can point people to it at least.
Yeah, but you and I both know you’re still going to be holding their hand 30-40% of the time anyway…
Better than 100% at least, I guess.
On one hand, fair.
On the other hand, this is what the real skill of leadership is - getting people to care.
That’s called “doing management’s job”
Just Keep going until you have a burnout! Then they’ll learn!
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They won’t
Thats the nice part of hybrid. Min max time at office so more time to chill.
Or, as I like to refer to it, The Curse of Competence
There is an old maximum of leadership that is:
“If you want something done give it to your busiest person”
And it is terrible. If you perform this kind of delegation, you have to expect that the other tasks will be shoved back on the priority list and the overall efficiency will decrease. This busy person will need more time overall for the sum of the tasks, because this kind of parallelization will make it harder to work on one task with focus. Also they will burn out eventually. But hey, that’s not management’s problem.
In my neighborhood, I’m the backup for the backup DIY guy, but people are starting to see where I specialize in, so eventually I will start getting jobs that the others can’t do as well. Soon I will be the specialist for certain things.
This is why I turned down promotions.
much like everyone else is incompetent
