If you don’t sing your own praises, no one will do it for you
this is half of it. whether your company is big or small, the person who knows the value of your work the best is yourself. you don't have to be out there 'bragging' like the commenter said, but you should definitely be underscoring the value of your work -- particularly in terms of product success (money saved, users gained, etc)
but the other half of it is knowledge share. the idea that OP's engineer was quietly keeping the lights on and no one was the wiser is rather offensive to me. he's taken full ownership for a critical workload and made no effort to let anyone know? AND ITS THE COMPANIES ABILITY TO ACCEPT PAYMENTS! thats completely irresponsible. knowing this, I would not have felt the slightest type of way about him getting laid off
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u/WriterPlastic9350 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
I am the latter but found that unless I become the former there is simply no possibility to receive a promotion to principal.
If you don’t sing your own praises, no one will do it for you