My condolences. I did put in the next sentence "in a positive company" ;-)

I've been explicitly told not to do things (then I usually do them in perl). They end up on my next yearly review as positives (one example was that I was told explicitly not to start a website for our department, it's now running using CGI::Application, HTML::Template, and XML::Twig - and I've had it as positives on my yearly review more than once). I've been not told to do things (that is, no one said anything about having to do them, often no one knows I'm doing them), I do them (again, usually in perl), and, again, positives in my yearly review. That's called "a positive company". Funny thing is that my manager is an extreme pessimist.

My justification for all this extra work? I'm Lazy. I tell my manager how much time it took to do it, and how much time I've saved because of it (I put our frequently asked questions on the site, and every time someone asks one of the questions, I don't answer it: I point them to the site. Saves hours of retyping). When he sees it in pure resource cost, and sees the cost savings, he likes it and is happy. My experience may be more abnormal than I hoped. :-(

In reply to Re^2: Keeping, and advancing in, your job by Tanktalus
in thread Keeping, and advancing in, your job by Tanktalus

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