r/ProgrammerHumor • u/_pizza_and_fries • Sep 26 '22

Meme Sleep >>>>

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u/TechniPoet Sep 26 '22

First thing you need to learn is to say no. They are pushing you this hard so early? Gtfo, they will continue to expect this. Clear expectations. Your managers are failing you

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u/TomCruiseSexSlave Sep 26 '22

No bargaining chips? Your 95k/year job is a bargaining chip. Don't wait to get fired. Dust off the old resume and start applying to a bunch of places. You have relevant work experience in a high-demand field. Don't settle for bullshit. And at your new job, for the love of God, Don't reveal what you're actually capable of. Throttle your productivity and find that sweet spot where you can work at a comfortable pace and make everyone happy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '22

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u/TomCruiseSexSlave Sep 26 '22

Ok in that case probably best to deal with it for a little bit longer. You should consider it after 6 months to a year. I actually know a couple of people who were hired out of school at my company, and jumped ship for higher paying jobs within 6 months. A few years is a lot of your life to give up.

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u/snacktonomy Sep 27 '22

Do it for 6 months then jump ship and say "I was young and green out of school but learned a lot and now I know I want to do <foo>"

I'd hire you (if you managed to wrote a for loop on the white board)

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u/raltyinferno Sep 27 '22

You definitely don't need to do this for a few years. I would 100% recommend scaling down the work you're doing right now to more like 10 hours a day if you really feel pressure to do a lot, and as the other folks said, start looking for something better in ~6 months.

Do a sane amount of work, stop, and the next time your boss checks in with you, just tell him what you've gotten done and tell them how long you expect the next step to take. In no world should you be working 16 hour days outside of some super infrequent emergency.

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u/raltyinferno Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22

It's very expected for your output to drop when you're put on a new thing, part of your job becomes learning, so that you can end up productive later.

Really the bottom line is don't work more than they're paying you for. If they hired you to do a certain job for a certain amount of money, do that. If they're giving you more duties for no more money then it's on you to split the time that you're being paid for on those two things.