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Minus: You'll never get promoted because no one else can do that job
Plus: You'll never get laid off for the same reason
Never underestimate the ability for middle management to not know how important you actually are.
The trick is to use your PTO all at once and be out for a week or so - everything falls over and it reminds your boss how you're the only thing keeping it all together.
The key to a good career in IT is to not have everything run too smoothly. If your systems have 100% uptime, it's easy for people to forget that you exist and are needed. The occasional bug reminds them that their lives would collapse without you.
I should go unplug the router for a bit.
But if they forget you doesn’t that mean you get paid to sit at a desk all day with no work?
Until it's time for layoffs
If I used my PTO all at once I would be out for like two months and a bit LOL
Tell me you're not American without saying you're not American.
What I wouldn't give for real amounts of PTO.
oh no
This might be the most American sentence I have read this week.
Shit, sometimes they'll lay you off just because you are worth too much and cost too much money.
Or just do RTO
Me rn and I hate it
Look for another job rn so when you ask for a raise you can shortly after present your 15 days
I've already started looking. I've asked for a raise twice and I got laughed at.
Oof, when I asked for mine, I at least got some empathy even though it was a non-answer. Wish ya best luck.