Brilliant. It’s so valuable to have a manager that actually treats you like a professional in these situations. Sounds like a diamond in the rough alright.

Some agency when working goes a long way to fostering a really good working relationship. I’m still a lot earlier in my career, so generally in my first non-internship role I was expecting to be given little bits of work like change this button, widen this form, that kind of stuff.

Turns out I’d joined one of those “sink or swim” smaller companies where you have to wear a lot of hats. Initially I thought quite negatively about it but once I started to gain some confidence I realised he was giving me the time and space to properly learn stuff and develop it until it was “good”. He, thankfully, still shoots down my sillier ideas but if I have a good one he throws his full support behind me.

Currently he was like, I need you to investigate how to set up automated fraud prevention checks and flag, let’s say things, for clients to investigate further, and he sent me off for a week to analyse the problem, speak to everyone involved and gather a list of data points and how to calculate them. Then he gave me the time to design the system, including the mental room to develop our first shared lib after .net framework.

Really I’m rambling a bit, but my point is, you can get a lot of good work out of people if you invest in them and allow them some agency. Maybe some can’t work well without constant pressure, but I think a lot of people thrive when supported and enabled correctly by management.

That’s awesome. Your manager had some rare foresight in that case.

Yeah, crabby boi fully had stabbin’ on his mind.

Dorothy Mantooth .NET is a saint, A SAINT.

The software crysis has never ended

MAXIMUM ARMOR

I read the top text, still thought it was a pizza, then read the bottom text and was confused.

Do NOT tell the 1 man 1 jar guy about this

I’ve not been here this long, but coming here from reddit was like moving from a stadium full of screaming maniacs attacking each other to a nice warm pub with like 5 to 13 quiet maniacs having a nice drink.