what I don’t love is how for a couple years my job was to just clean up other people’s messes, babysit other departments (including their managers that outranked me!), figure out how to make the abso ok itely terrible systems that management put in place work for us, take the abuse that people directed at me for those terrible systems instead of management despite how I nearly quit my job because nobody was listening when I repeatedly explained very clearly how terrible those systems would be for literally everyone, and was still expected to complete new types of projects (which we were not set up to efficiently work on) faster with fewer resources and shittier planning, while not getting any meaningful raises.
yeah, that sucked. so now I do 40s and don’t worry about the stuff I can’t control. I tried, for years. it didn’t work. any time management wants to fix that work environment, I’d love to get back to doing lots of actual work. but cleaning up somebody else’s shit isn’t work in interested in doing
I’d love to work
what I don’t love is how for a couple years my job was to just clean up other people’s messes, babysit other departments (including their managers that outranked me!), figure out how to make the abso ok itely terrible systems that management put in place work for us, take the abuse that people directed at me for those terrible systems instead of management despite how I nearly quit my job because nobody was listening when I repeatedly explained very clearly how terrible those systems would be for literally everyone, and was still expected to complete new types of projects (which we were not set up to efficiently work on) faster with fewer resources and shittier planning, while not getting any meaningful raises.
yeah, that sucked. so now I do 40s and don’t worry about the stuff I can’t control. I tried, for years. it didn’t work. any time management wants to fix that work environment, I’d love to get back to doing lots of actual work. but cleaning up somebody else’s shit isn’t work in interested in doing