It honestly seems like people have forgotten what all tech entails with the rise of generative AI.
Like holy shit man, people (at my company at least) now think you can write a program to control what is essentially your entire database system, security and business analytics with chatgpt.
Maybe I’m just not meant for this and this is the norm. But it’s taken me like 2 months to get a handle on three different types of API and program documentation. And I’ve also been doing like sys admin work too.
But three jobs in, and I’m starting to realize this is exactly what companies want. Because why pay multiple people for work in a department when they can just offload everything to one person and pay them nothing and know that the economy is so fucked that you’re basically trapped
Like I integrated one system to another for my senior project in undergrad and I had a little help on that from another business. But now I’m doing it all alone and being expected to work at super speed at the same time
You need to go down to HR and have them very clearly document what your Job Description is and then negotiate more money when they want you do something outside of it or demand they hire someone to fulfill roles that aren't your problem. You're walking to your own destruction otherwise. They'll work you to death.
Oh so this is just gonna get worse huh
On top of all the wild shit they're having you do, you're also gonna have to maintain it while building the next thing, and the next thing, etc.
I once did IT at a low voltage life safety shop (fire, security, access control) and I finally took a vacation for a week, while still being on call of course. When I got back I found out they had a meeting with some radio monitoring company without me and had bought like 500 fire system monitoring radios that they needed me to set up the antenna system and dual internet gateways for them. They not only basically signed me up to be the IT support for a fire system monitoring company they just created out of thin air, they expected me to build a fucking antenna for them in the back lot. Like the kind tall enough to climb. Because I work with the computers.🤦
It sounds like one of those things that are like, "Yeah I can do it, but why use someone less skilled and underpaid for it?"
Hiring new people are wildcards. They already have power over you. Bosses like that very much have a sense of ownership over their employees; With expectations that if they say something, it should get done regardless.
It's the kind of situation where that boss is begging to have work done to a substandard quality.
The thing about it is that the job description is very vague. Like I’m doing a lot of the job description but also a lot more. So maybe this is a lesson to read and think more carefully about the job description next time 💀
It’s like I’m building, testing and executing all the code I write (and steal) and asked to be an expert in both the server and client side AS WELL as database design, implementation and management. Not for a ton of people yet but still
Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare in progress. But it also sounds like they don't really know what they're asking for. Personally, I'd milk it doing the bare minimum while looking for something else. Throw them breadcrumbs from time to time, but look to get out of there. I'd probably even let ChatGPT write most of the code. 😅 There's no happy ending long term.