great post. One of my favorite statements is the following:
Also, be polite and do not spread your frustration everywhere. Your team might still contain new, enthusiastic people. Don’t take their motivation away.
This is so true. I have seen it way too often, that people infect motivated, young colleagues with their frustration.
10+ years of professional dev career. I have experience from numerous projects in media, advertising, education and finance. I use mostly Java and PHP. I also have some team leading experience.
I made that mistake of infecting young, motivated colleagues myself. That's why I mentioned it. There is a very thin line between making fun of corporate absurds and demotivating people. I think we shouldn't lie about our workplace, but we shouldn't escalate conflicts neither. Especially when we have years of experience in a particular organization and we know its structure well.
We should discuss problems in a constructive way, so other people can see light at the end of the tunnel, even if we're burnt out. And no personal attacks, of course :) This can be astonishingly hard to achieve.
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Hi Piotr,
great post. One of my favorite statements is the following:
This is so true. I have seen it way too often, that people infect motivated, young colleagues with their frustration.
Don't do that!
Thank you, glad you liked the article :)
I made that mistake of infecting young, motivated colleagues myself. That's why I mentioned it. There is a very thin line between making fun of corporate absurds and demotivating people. I think we shouldn't lie about our workplace, but we shouldn't escalate conflicts neither. Especially when we have years of experience in a particular organization and we know its structure well.
We should discuss problems in a constructive way, so other people can see light at the end of the tunnel, even if we're burnt out. And no personal attacks, of course :) This can be astonishingly hard to achieve.