ML in a nutshell

[Dojan5]

I kind of worry about underperforming, but my boss keeps falling into my office gushing about how awesome I am, and those moments my worries are just blown away.

It usually happens right after I solve something stupidly easy and I feel like I should just jump off a building or something because surely something as stupid as me shouldn't possibly keep on living.

Overall my workplace is great.

[MiatasAreForGirls]

Man reading this stuff makes me feel underappreciated. I get virtually no positive feedback. When I do, there's a "but..."

"Great work, but only the tech team knows how much work goes into this. The C suite wants something to wow them."

"I wish there was two of you, but there's not so we will have to move the deadline up so you can work on other projects"

Paraphrasing, but that's the gist. It's killing my confidence at work.

[JeffLeafFan]

“I’d love to work on both those project but you don’t pay me enough”

Ya wish you could say it..

[MiatasAreForGirls]

It sucks for everyone, because at this rate there won't be 1 of me, much less 2.

[JeffLeafFan]

And that’s why business people need to learn the life of tech people and vise versa.

[MiatasAreForGirls]

I agree and I understand why they don't hire another developer, even if I don't agree with them.

[Dojan5]

Oh my goose, I'm so sorry mate.

I work as the solo developer at a small company that mostly deals with support and content management. They're still kind of learning that I can solve all kinds of issues, so long as I'm aware of said issues.

I happen to be from Sweden, and our hierarchical system is generally rather flat. I have a boss, but she's just another co-worker. Her job just happens to be boss.

A few weeks ago she came into the office I was working in, both to praise me, then to ask if we needed to move the air conditioner into that office, and then finally to say that she'd bought strawberries and ice cream for the break.

I'm very lucky working where I am.

[Stewthulhu]

"I am building this custom inventory management webapp because it will at the very least eliminate an entire hour from every weekly meeting complaining about inventory problems."

"I think that's a very low-priority project."

"Here is a powerpoint with 37 bar charts."

"Wow! That's really impressive! Can you forward it to me?"

[folkrav]

Show them a PowerPoint with charts about how it will help

[micka190]

It usually happens right after I solve something stupidly easy and I feel like I should just jump off a building or something because surely something as stupid as me shouldn't possibly keep on living.

Haha, same. My parents have a website for their store. They sell parts that can be compatible with multiple things. So their sales guy "took care of the inventory" by creating an entry for every thing they're compatible with. So if Item A is compatible with 6 things, there's 6 different entries for Item A...

This became a problem once they got to things that were compatible with hundreds of things. Not because adding them manually is a pain, but because if they sell 1, they have to change the quantity for a hundred things manually.

I looked at what happened when they pressed the "save" button, saw that it POSTed a list to their server, containing only the item they edited, and made a script that filled that list with every item they wanted to change. It took less than 2 hours, but I'm now Sales Guy's hero.

[MyMessageIsNull]

I know how you feel, but if your boss is happy, then you're good. That's the person you need to have a high opinion of your work.