On today’s episode of “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
This hun at work, same one that ran to the bosses about me “leaving an urgent ticket”.
She’s an intermediate Dev right, but since one of our Senior devs left and the post hasn’t been filled, she and the other Senior Dev have been sharing the load whenever I’m out.
Now, because of that, she’s decided she should be a Senior. Her manager obviously saw the ambition and took advantage. Good sis was blind to it, instead she became a teacher’s pet. Hand always up, always volunteering, always upstairs rubbing shoulders, work socials, you know all the silly things the corporate ladder climbers like doing.
They started giving her some of our Senior responsibilities coz you know? Carrots must be dangled. Typical. But you can't even tell her that coz good sis is quick to throw people under the bus. To her, it’s a competition, which... weird coz if I'm Senior and you're Intermediate? There's no competition? The circle is big enough, pull up and join the club? No?
Anyway ffwd to this week: the Senior Dev post goes out. She applies. Declined. Reason? No leadership experience.
When I tell you my girl is perishing! She came to me on some: “I didn’t even enjoy doing all that stuff, it was just a means to an end. But now that I know it’s not leading anywhere, I don’t want to keep being their go-to person. How do I make it stop?”
Now, I know that was God giving me a wink coz there's no way she came to me of all people? When I tell you all I could do is offer a shoulder! Because it’s one thing to play corporate games. But when you start compromising other people just to get a seat at this imaginary table? Give me zero. Mark me absent. When in doubt, consider me nonexistent coz I'm not coming.
