I don't agree with this advice at all. Do the work you're paid to do - no more, and no less. In my experience, working extra doesn't actually get you more respect from an employer. Often times, it's the opposite.
Back when I was working as salaried employee, I never asked for a promotion or a raise. Not once. But I got them! Meanwhile, I watched coworkers spend years fighting for promotions, taking on so much more work than I would ever agree to, and were repeatedly denied. Eventually, they would give up and get a job elsewhere. Some did manage to get promoted, but it was grueling.
These coworkers weren't less skilled than I was. I would say many of them were actually more capable, despite my position being ranked higher.
A lot of comments here are talking about "healthy" work cultures and whatnot. I worked for medium-sized tech companies that you've heard of with great engineering cultures and a healthy approach to work-life balance. I don't believe that "healthy" results in getting recognized for going above and beyond.
Others are mentioning office politics. I did not befriend coworkers, did not make enemies, etc. I simply did my work.
I'm sure many of you have had the experience that if you make a mistake—not necessarily at work, but just in general—and then apologize profusely, you will be treated worse than if you were more casual or didn't even apologize at all. I find that making yourself "smaller" will often result in people taking advantage of you. Similarly, it seems to me that working super hard will simply raise people's baseline expectations of you, and they will exploit that. This isn't necessarily a conscious thing on behalf of your boss(es), but it's absolutely something that happens.
Given all of that, my advice is to simply do your job. Over time, you will gain more experience, and that experience will potentially turn into promotions naturally. If not, then get a new job. Note however, that I'm not a proponent of frequent job hopping (I never spent less than three years at a company).
If you're not self-employed, then your work is making someone else rich. No need to make them even richer if you're not getting compensated for it.
I feel the need to point out that while many people might understand the point you're trying to make, the way this question is phrased doesn't do the best job of conveying it.
If I was presented with two options: waking up tomorrow as the child of a poor farmer in a third-world country, or waking up as one of Donald Trump's children, I would definitely choose the latter. However, that doesn't mean that I trust Trump more than I would trust the farmer. In other words, quality of life (or a preferred way of living) are not inherently tied to trust, morality, or anything like that.
I've been working on an app to help VvEs* in the Netherlands self-manage.
For about a year, I was trying to get our VvE management company* to take care of major issues we have in our building's crawl space. We had an inspection done, but even after about seven months of constantly nagging them, they failed to get a single quote for the work that the crawl space needs. I called our manager, and he essentially yelled at me for twenty minutes and was not shy to express his anti-immigrant sentiments (I'm American).
Because of this, I'm now on a mission to get this company fired and take management into our own hands, which will save us a bunch of money. The existing VvE management tools are ugly, slow, and unnecessarily complex, so I'm building my own.
It's only been a month, so I haven't hosted it yet (still coming up with a name, to be honest), but I have made good progress functionality-wise. If anyone in the Netherlands is part of a small VvE and wants to chat, let me know! My email is my username (@gmail).
* The US equivalent would be an HOA (Homeowner's Association). Basically, a corporation that is responsible for the upkeep of shared resources for homeowners (e.g. the roof of a building or the pool in a gated community).
** Many VvEs choose to outsource management of the VvE to a third party. These companies—in theory—take care of maintenance requests, yearly meetings, voting, etc. From everything I've read online, almost none of these companies satisfy their clients.
> He is primarily of interest because Italian-Americans want a feeling of pride and so celebrate "one of their own", the Genovese Columbus.
May I ask why you hold this opinion? I grew up with tons of Italian-Americans (NYC) and I can confidently say that I've never heard a single person express pride in the fact that Columbus was Italian. In fact, based on my experience, a lot of Americans—regardless of descent—think/were explicitly taught that Columbus was Spanish.
Just to make sure I'm not missing anything: All of that essentially only applies to user/untrusted input, right? i.e. if I have a static website with inline CSS (or JS), there's no security concern.
In that case, I'm not sure I'd consider inline CSS "unsafe." But it's interesting to see how CSS can be exploited in the same way that JS can be.
Definitely. I'm American and I've lived in the Netherlands for the past three years. The difference is night and day.
Whenever I visit, I switch to my US SIM card and am immediately bombarded with spam texts (mostly from political parties) and scam calls. In my experience, Android is pretty good at marking calls and texts as "potential scams," but they're still there. In the Netherlands, I've gotten a few scam attempts via WhatsApp. Other than that, I think I've received one phone call soliciting donations to the Red Cross, and nothing else.
This is mentioned in the article. The problem is that based on my experience, most JS devs have never heard of it, and I've personally never heard of it being used anywhere.
When you say "shoplifting," do you mean someone has simply walked/run out of the store without paying for something? If so, I don't really understand what that has to do with safety. Same with plenty of other crimes, such as someone jumping a subway turnstile, graffiti, etc. These things surely lead to a lower quality of life and I'd prefer that they didn't happen, but I personally wouldn't say that they make a city dangerous.
Airlines are among the worst when it comes to this for some reason. I gave a talk[1] a while back about the problems that occur when programmers introduce logic around people's names, and a good chunk of my stories/examples involved airlines.
I'm building a gamified habit tracker, similar to Habitica[1], but simplified in some ways, and with offline support. My biggest issues with Habitica are their lack of offline support (even on mobile), and their extremely downtime-prone servers. My goal is to make something more pleasant to use.
I don't have a link to share since it's still fairly early in development, but I'm making good progress!
I played with this a bit years ago when it was still called PostgraphQL. My biggest issue with it was that there didn't seem to be a recommended (or even suggested) version control method for things like functions. Using a standard migration tool to update functions seems like hell, so I gave up on using it.
Looking through the docs, I still see no mention of version control or even migrations at all. Is this something that has been solved?
SEEKING WORK - Netherlands - Remote-only
I'm a full-stack engineer looking for projects to build on a freelance basis. I am not interested in staff augmentation.
I'm most experienced in PHP/Laravel and JS/TS/React, but am pretty tech-fluid.
Previously, I worked at Etsy (three years) and Trello (five years, both pre- and post-Atlassian acquisition).
My ideal project would be solo-shipping an MVP in the span of 2-4 weeks depending on the complexity, but I'm also happy to work on more ambitious projects.
Back when I was working as salaried employee, I never asked for a promotion or a raise. Not once. But I got them! Meanwhile, I watched coworkers spend years fighting for promotions, taking on so much more work than I would ever agree to, and were repeatedly denied. Eventually, they would give up and get a job elsewhere. Some did manage to get promoted, but it was grueling.
These coworkers weren't less skilled than I was. I would say many of them were actually more capable, despite my position being ranked higher.
A lot of comments here are talking about "healthy" work cultures and whatnot. I worked for medium-sized tech companies that you've heard of with great engineering cultures and a healthy approach to work-life balance. I don't believe that "healthy" results in getting recognized for going above and beyond.
Others are mentioning office politics. I did not befriend coworkers, did not make enemies, etc. I simply did my work.
I'm sure many of you have had the experience that if you make a mistake—not necessarily at work, but just in general—and then apologize profusely, you will be treated worse than if you were more casual or didn't even apologize at all. I find that making yourself "smaller" will often result in people taking advantage of you. Similarly, it seems to me that working super hard will simply raise people's baseline expectations of you, and they will exploit that. This isn't necessarily a conscious thing on behalf of your boss(es), but it's absolutely something that happens.
Given all of that, my advice is to simply do your job. Over time, you will gain more experience, and that experience will potentially turn into promotions naturally. If not, then get a new job. Note however, that I'm not a proponent of frequent job hopping (I never spent less than three years at a company).
If you're not self-employed, then your work is making someone else rich. No need to make them even richer if you're not getting compensated for it.