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WanderingEng  ·  3054 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's your breaking point, Hubski?

My breaking point is a bad supervisor whose supervisor doesn't care. If my boss's boss knows he's terrible, it's a scenario I can work with. But when the department is falling apart and nobody cares because employees are working their butts off to hold things together, it's time to go.

One project I was handed was to study how to prevent X from happening. X had happened and freaked a bunch of people out, so someone said to study preventing X. When I sat down with it, it was obvious Y was just as bad as X and much more likely. Fixing X did nothing for Y, but nobody cared. If you can accept Y, you can accept X. If you can't accept X, we need to talk about Y. It was ridiculous.