I just got kicked off the second project at work, for underperforming in the dull, manual tasks they gave me. 😏
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I want a job where I can program something. So tired of blackbox testing. Total bore-out.
If you’re a sadomasochist, look into Level 1 PLC programming.
Both projects had someone else on the team doing the test automation, but that is what I wanted to do. Oh well.
Trying very hard to suppress the hope that they fire me, so that I can spend all day working on Nostr stuff and housekeeping, while collecting unemployment.
Could you automate the manual tasks anyways? That’s the real blindspot.
I did, but they didn't want that.
They thought they were giving me the remainder that couldn't be automated and then I automated it. But then I was too quiet for a while, and then suddenly hit them with a wall of bug reports and the devs got upset and I am off the project.
I was already in the dog house for repeatedly pushing back on developers claiming there was no bug, and it was just user-error, by responding with a bug-fix suggestion.
If you are recently hired into any established work culture, the best advice is to keep your head down and focus on the people and a service mindset until you gain the social credit to be able to recommend new and better ways of doing things.
I've seen multiple employees that knew a lot completely alienate the entire staff. That's usually unrecoverable.
Sounds like a promotion.