<story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>You &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; disposable though, everyone is.  It&amp;#x27;s generally a losing game to try to cement your position by playing gatekeeper on institutional knowledge, because at best it will prevent you from ever being promoted, and at worst will peg you as a single-point-of-failure liability that needs to be dealt with proactively.  I understand this sort of defensive posture might make sense in some companies&amp;#x2F;situations, but the article is clearly talking about software engineers in large upwardly mobile companies.  In those situations it&amp;#x27;s essential to have a non-adversarial and trusting relationship with your boss, if you don&amp;#x27;t trust your boss than that&amp;#x27;s the first thing to address by any means necessary.</text></item><item><author>booleandilemma</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, you just make yourself disposable.&lt;p&gt;War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.&lt;p&gt;Don’t listen to this article. It sounds like something overseers would tell their underlings.&lt;p&gt;And when you’re quitting, that’s the company’s problem, not yours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_jeremy</author><text>I was on a team of 2 and underpaid for my YOE. My boss gave me the standard speech about the company not having the money to increase my comp, and said the company wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to counteroffer anything I interviewed for.&lt;p&gt;I was doing interview prep and my coworker gave notice. I told my boss the range I was interviewing for, and got a comp adjustment the next day. It was a 60% raise.</text></comment>
<story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>You &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; disposable though, everyone is.  It&amp;#x27;s generally a losing game to try to cement your position by playing gatekeeper on institutional knowledge, because at best it will prevent you from ever being promoted, and at worst will peg you as a single-point-of-failure liability that needs to be dealt with proactively.  I understand this sort of defensive posture might make sense in some companies&amp;#x2F;situations, but the article is clearly talking about software engineers in large upwardly mobile companies.  In those situations it&amp;#x27;s essential to have a non-adversarial and trusting relationship with your boss, if you don&amp;#x27;t trust your boss than that&amp;#x27;s the first thing to address by any means necessary.</text></item><item><author>booleandilemma</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, you just make yourself disposable.&lt;p&gt;War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.&lt;p&gt;Don’t listen to this article. It sounds like something overseers would tell their underlings.&lt;p&gt;And when you’re quitting, that’s the company’s problem, not yours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mLuby</author><text>Not &amp;quot;if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.doc.ic.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;~susan&amp;#x2F;475&amp;#x2F;unmain.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.doc.ic.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;~susan&amp;#x2F;475&amp;#x2F;unmain.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>