11mo ago

Not sure if this is a unique case, but it absolutely BLOWS to be the single person responsible for everything tech in a company besides hardware

It honestly seems like people have forgotten what all tech entails with the rise of generative AI.

Like holy shit man, people (at my company at least) now think you can write a program to control what is essentially your entire database system, security and business analytics with chatgpt.

Maybe I’m just not meant for this and this is the norm. But it’s taken me like 2 months to get a handle on three different types of API and program documentation. And I’ve also been doing like sys admin work too.

But three jobs in, and I’m starting to realize this is exactly what companies want. Because why pay multiple people for work in a department when they can just offload everything to one person and pay them nothing and know that the economy is so fucked that you’re basically trapped

Like I integrated one system to another for my senior project in undergrad and I had a little help on that from another business. But now I’m doing it all alone and being expected to work at super speed at the same time

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- Boss has actually gargled the corporate kool aid and truly believes he can use chatgpt to generate a job posting that isn’t laughably divorced from reality
  Lmao he didn’t tell me I’d be developing the framework for system interfacing on the front and back end for 60K
  And it’d be somewhat of another thing if our department wasn’t just me and my manager. That seems to be a pattern of mine
  
  he didn’t tell me I’d be developing the framework for system interfacing on the front and back end for 60K
  just use chatgpt for that
- Best time to get a job is when you have a job.
  Wish I had this sentence imbued into my soul when I quit my last job.
systems infrastructure is strictly an expense that doesn't contribute in any way to revenue. i am very intelligent and make good financial decisions.
You need to go down to HR and have them very clearly document what your Job Description is and then negotiate more money when they want you do something outside of it or demand they hire someone to fulfill roles that aren't your problem. You're walking to your own destruction otherwise. They'll work you to death.
- The thing about it is that the job description is very vague. Like I’m doing a lot of the job description but also a lot more. So maybe this is a lesson to read and think more carefully about the job description next time 💀
  It’s like I’m building, testing and executing all the code I write (and steal) and asked to be an expert in both the server and client side AS WELL as database design, implementation and management. Not for a ton of people yet but still
  
  Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare in progress. But it also sounds like they don't really know what they're asking for. Personally, I'd milk it doing the bare minimum while looking for something else. Throw them breadcrumbs from time to time, but look to get out of there. I'd probably even let ChatGPT write most of the code. 😅 There's no happy ending long term.
- Oh so this is just gonna get worse huh
  
  On top of all the wild shit they're having you do, you're also gonna have to maintain it while building the next thing, and the next thing, etc.
  I once did IT at a low voltage life safety shop (fire, security, access control) and I finally took a vacation for a week, while still being on call of course. When I got back I found out they had a meeting with some radio monitoring company without me and had bought like 500 fire system monitoring radios that they needed me to set up the antenna system and dual internet gateways for them. They not only basically signed me up to be the IT support for a fire system monitoring company they just created out of thin air, they expected me to build a fucking antenna for them in the back lot. Like the kind tall enough to climb. Because I work with the computers.🤦
Maybe I’m just not meant for this and this is the norm
It's not. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people who can do what your employer asked but they live breathe and think code and their career. Like read entire textbooks/research papers in free time, comment on Hacker news dedicated
Everybody wants a 10x coding rockstar but nobody wants to pay a coder 10x like a rockstar
Blame the passionate people who live to work and pour their entire life into bootlicking the company because all they know is to touch machines and not grass
- hell yeah, 10x silicon valley tech bro brain rot
  it's unsustainable and it WILL BURN YOU OUT AND THROW YOU AWAY
This is why you build backdoors into the entire system and when they fire you for some bullshit, you do a little trolling.
This is why you build backdoors into the entire system and when they fire you for some bullshit, you do a little trolling.

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