[HN Gopher] Tech Management Has Bestowed Glory Upon Me
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       Tech Management Has Bestowed Glory Upon Me
        
       Author : jpurnell
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2023-12-08 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (ludic.mataroa.blog)
 (TXT) w3m dump (ludic.mataroa.blog)
        
       | jpurnell wrote:
       | A few months ago, I wrote about saving my employer about half a
       | million dollars by clicking a few buttons in Snowflake. In it, I
       | expressed a lot of cynicism around the likelihood of my employer
       | rewarding me. I had reached out to the most senior person in my
       | organization outside of the executive heading our department to
       | ask for more money, and received total silence in response for
       | several weeks.
       | 
       | Well, I've promised to always be honest in my writing here, and
       | the truth is that I was wrong on this one. I predicted $0 or $5K,
       | and they did a lot better than that.
       | 
       | I won the 'Innovation' award at the annual meeting I deliberately
       | skipped today, which comes with a $30 gift voucher.
        
         | eschneider wrote:
         | That's management suggesting you find a better job. :/
        
         | catchnear4321 wrote:
         | you received an innovation award during the language model
         | hype, despite not using a language model or anything related to
         | it.
         | 
         | this is quite stupendous, actually.
        
         | ragnot wrote:
         | Every time this happens to me I keep thinking of that "How many
         | times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?" meme.
        
         | floren wrote:
         | I've seen this a couple times over the last week, where a
         | person posts something from their own site, and then
         | immediately makes a comment with a verbatim excerpt.
         | 
         | I've thought about it and I think it sucks. Let's not do it.
         | Let's make it HN culture not to do it.
        
           | ludicity wrote:
           | Fortunately, this isn't their site, it's mine!
        
             | floren wrote:
             | Well, that's better, but I still think posting the snippet
             | is pointless and obnoxious and mostly a way to make it look
             | like there's already discussion -- Potemkin Posting.
        
       | blcknight wrote:
       | This person sounds quite disgruntled and should find somewhere
       | else to work for their own well being.
        
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