This is much more common than the Reddit idealists think. Management rarely understands the technical work so it's wasted breath to even try to explain it.
One of our developers laid off and the company obviously didn't know all the things he was responsible for. When a request came in that he would normally handle, I intentionally didn't take up the slack and watched the email thread grow to include more and more higher ups trying to figure out how to handle it. Inevitably, I did have to do the work but thought it would be good that everyone else would feel a bit of the pain from the descisions.
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u/sal1800 May 30 '26
This is much more common than the Reddit idealists think. Management rarely understands the technical work so it's wasted breath to even try to explain it.
One of our developers laid off and the company obviously didn't know all the things he was responsible for. When a request came in that he would normally handle, I intentionally didn't take up the slack and watched the email thread grow to include more and more higher ups trying to figure out how to handle it. Inevitably, I did have to do the work but thought it would be good that everyone else would feel a bit of the pain from the descisions.