I would not mention as much of my personal life as I did.
People are going to make decisions based on more than just merit.
It might not be fair, done consciously, or with malice, but it happens.
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I was going to write very much the same thing.
I've given too much information about my health, and now it gets used against me.
Your employer, managers, supervisors; they're not you're friends. You can and should remain friendly to an extent, but be careful what information you give away.
I like that.... "Remain friendly, but remember they're not your friends".
Yep, the only thing I've let slip is that I volunteer at a non profit.
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Demand my wfh arrangement be in writing, rather than just a "gentleman's agreement"
It's like a corporate prenup.
I wouldn't make it obvious who my work besties are.
- It's assumed that you'll gossip with that person, so you won't get any info that they can't hear.
- If they're more than 1 level junior to you, it will take longer to get promotions and raises since you'll be "junior" by association.
- If they're the same level and in your team (and they're a poor performer), you won't get promoted because it's assumed you'll play favorites as their boss.
Sucks. Some of them were not professional and it impacted my optics. I need to pick better friends and set healthier boundaries.
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Letting it bleed so much into life. My job and my hobby (code) have significant overlap. Stuff I learned on the job started making hobby coding not fun and shortcomings at the job started to feel like my own personal failures. I am slowly learning to separate my work and personal identities, to understand that my employer's stuff is not my own, and to leave work at work when work ends. I wish I had done that from the first day though.
Seeing as I'm self employed, not much. Or maybe everything - could go either way.
I hadn't considered that perspective!
What's an example of something you'd change?
I wouldn't have befriended my one coworker so I wouldn't be so upset when they left
Just because they left doesn't mean you can't still be friends!
Quit 10 years sooner.
I would try to believe in myself as much as my employer believed in me. My imposture syndrome for the first couple years was absolutely rank.
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I would have refused to participate in that Foosball tournament that a coworker begged me to be in because he needed an even number for teams.
A disaster, seriously.
last time we had a foosball tournament, I was made to play on my own against teams of two.
I think it helped me not being slowed down by someone less capable. I won against the other 4 teams on my own.
I don't think they will make me play on my own again lol
Is it possible to have two cell numbers on one phone?
I'd give out my burner number if anyone outside of HR asked for my contact info.
Google voice has been around for like 15 years. It's your perm number, that your direct calls to your real number as you like/don't like.
Personally I give out work number that is semi permanent and fam/friends get GV #. I use one message app for work # and one for GV. Allows me to pay attention/prioritize during work/personal time.
Been doing this for more than 12 years. 8 employers, no worries.
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Yep, dual sim is a thing. However, my employer wants full control of the phone so they provided an iPhone. (I'm an Android user) The biggest pro of 2 phones is that you can silence the work phone outside work hours.
With my 1st temp job ('99) I told my boss that the best feature on the work phone the power button was. The moment I left the building it would be turned off. Alas, those modern phones have a complete sequence to go trough to get them off, so I now use the automated do not desturb. Alas, iPhone has only times you can set daily, instead weekday dependent times. Between 18:00 and 7:00 the thing is quiet, no exceptions.
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Yes. Most modern phones are dual-sim. New Google Pixels, new iPhones, All Xiaomis afaik.
You can give them phone number A and then completely disable that sim out of work hours.
Edit: also you can have "virtual" phone numbers that you just use inside an app on your phone, but they don't do as much as a normal mobile number so I personally wouldn't take my chances.
Interesting!!
Do you know if it would it be cheaper to have a second SIM card or a virtual phone number?
Depends where you live. MoreMins lets you buy a virtual phone number for about €4/mo if I remember right, which is wayy cheaper than anything physical you can get anything here in Australia.
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Yes. Dual sim phones are a thing.
Although, I would give the same number to all work related matters to keep the other one personal.
Or not give it out at all. If your workplace requires you to be contacted via mobile or to access work email/apps etc, they should provide it.
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Stop acting like I'm worthless with low self-esteem. I don't know why I present myself that way. I'm a valuable competent skilled employee who passes background checks squeaky clean. Someone smack me and tell me to present myself as I deserve.
I even declined the hiring bonus because I felt unworthy of it although I meet all the criteria for it 🤦♀️ But really what I did was tell my managers that I'd rather be given the hiring bonus after I've been there a year because I've heard that some companies have a stipulation in the contract of hiring bonuses that should anything happen within the first year of my employment that causes me to stop working there, I would have to repay the bonus, so I kept it in mind that if I ever got a job that promised a hiring bonus, I would discuss it with the manager to have the bonus given to me at the end of a year. well I told my managers this and they told me I would have to talk to a higher up manager about it and they told me her name but I forgot, and they didn't even look me in the eye when they said this and I just kind of never followed up on it.
Instead of hearing about the bonus maybe being pulled back.. just read the contract?
And even if you would have to give it back.. just park it until its free to use (assuming you dont actually need it)
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I hate how being humble and having integrity can translate to being taken advantage of in a toxic relationship.
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I wouldn’t take the job.
People that hired me are not the people running the joint now. And the current people are pretty terrible.
Similar situation for me, as well. My company's taken a turn that's very successful for the C-suites, but more and more stressful for the rest of us and I'm becoming majorly burnt out.
Same here, the manager hiring me left before my employment started. I was a contractor that joined, so I already knew most of the team. Alas, management destroyed the fun in the job. Way to much work, no new knowledged colleagues but we got a truckload of managers to work agile.
I'd do a much better job of writing a certain web app so that I don't need to spend the next seven+ years maintaining a pile of shitty PHP and copy-pasted JQuery.
I wouldn't have burned that day off last week, it didn't even snow 🙄
Try my best to rearrange someone else's code if it's too hard to read
Saintly work.
I haven't coded in years but I recall that reading someone else's code was like getting a glimpse of what their closets and cupboards probably looked like.
Get a different job.
I wouldn't start with this company if I was starting today.
This is a very different place than it was when I started.
more anal shoots
I got put in a project that people overpromised and I'm getting shafted by the fact that the client wants way more than I think they're paying for, so it's certainly running late. I'd ask a couple months in for a bit more help.
Quit
Not have any expectations about excelling in my career, nor any expectations about having support in serving the public, although that is entirely what we do.
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