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Discussion on: What's the kindest thing someone's ever done for you during your career?

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Ben Chartrand

My first manager took me aside. She realized j was bored and she offered to speak to the VP of Engineering to see if I can move into a dev role I initially turned down (was worried I couldn't do it). Was the start of my dev career.

Conversely, one of my best accomplishments as a manager was working with a report on career dev. He initially said a strong no to any leadership responsibility but it was a similar thing to my past: I knew he could do it so gently encouraged him.

End result is he took my job as I moved into a different role. So happy to see him grow and doing so well in the role.