2 mandatory office days even for consultants. If you want to be at the office, fine. But don’t make everyone be because of some so-called fairness. Catering to some imaginary average person isn’t fair, it’s hurting everyone a little or a lot. Alas since I’m working via an agency, I got to follow client directives. Luckily I have good rapport with both my agency and my project team lead so I can kinda toe the line.
Also the inability or rather unwillingness of my fellow devs to follow protocol. Ticket not approved by business? You don’t touch it. Yet the geniuses I work with went total yolo mode on a project I’m not on. So I wasn’t there to remind them and now they’re upset they got told off they spent a week on tickets that they were asked to discuss with the business. And that they aren’t getting praise for their efficiency. It’s government work, not your hobby project. That’s a week of budget spent on work they may need to reverse because they didn’t even put it on a branch. Maybe when they hear it from higher up they’ll listen because I really get the impression when it comes from me it is seen as my personal opinion. No, I just figured out early how the office politics work and play the game I’m paid for. I voice my opinion plenty but here it actually aligns with the organisation expectations.
Yeah. I find rhe phrase “IT gets paid more too” helps clear up a lot of “what about making things fair for everyone in every role at the office?” conversations.
In the meantime I also lobby for everyone to get treated as well as IT, or as close as their role allows.
But I use that phrase to shoot down the idea that my sometimes on-call IT staff should share a dress code, schedule or remote work policy with the rest of the staff.
I’m always sure to mention that internal candidates (especially the Help Desk) get preferential treatment when applying to IT roles, as well.
2 mandatory office days even for consultants. If you want to be at the office, fine. But don’t make everyone be because of some so-called fairness. Catering to some imaginary average person isn’t fair, it’s hurting everyone a little or a lot. Alas since I’m working via an agency, I got to follow client directives. Luckily I have good rapport with both my agency and my project team lead so I can kinda toe the line.
Also the inability or rather unwillingness of my fellow devs to follow protocol. Ticket not approved by business? You don’t touch it. Yet the geniuses I work with went total yolo mode on a project I’m not on. So I wasn’t there to remind them and now they’re upset they got told off they spent a week on tickets that they were asked to discuss with the business. And that they aren’t getting praise for their efficiency. It’s government work, not your hobby project. That’s a week of budget spent on work they may need to reverse because they didn’t even put it on a branch. Maybe when they hear it from higher up they’ll listen because I really get the impression when it comes from me it is seen as my personal opinion. No, I just figured out early how the office politics work and play the game I’m paid for. I voice my opinion plenty but here it actually aligns with the organisation expectations.
Yeah. I find rhe phrase “IT gets paid more too” helps clear up a lot of “what about making things fair for everyone in every role at the office?” conversations.
In the meantime I also lobby for everyone to get treated as well as IT, or as close as their role allows.
But I use that phrase to shoot down the idea that my sometimes on-call IT staff should share a dress code, schedule or remote work policy with the rest of the staff.
I’m always sure to mention that internal candidates (especially the Help Desk) get preferential treatment when applying to IT roles, as well.