[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> Perhaps you should find a new place to work.

Oh, that's a few years now. I definitely did find a new place and the culture in that next place was fantastic :)

It's just that not all teams I worked with encouraged, or even recognised, time-saving automation. Some did, some didn't- it was a mixed bag. Maybe I'm wrong to say that "most" didn't. If I think about it, out of five teams in six years, two clearly didn't care, two definitely cared a lot, one I don't know.

I think the difference in culture had something to do with the way hierarchy worked in different companies. It just happened that in every one of those jobs I was the most junior member of the team (in the last one because despite having some experience, I worked with mainframe engineers with 30+ years on me :). But, some places appreciated the fact that I did my best to keep up and pull my weight, while others- it just didn't make any difference. I was the least experienced so I was expected to trudge through endless tedious until I had tenure (by which time I was expected to delegate all the tedious to contractors or juniors, I bet).

The effect was that in the teams that encouraged putting in the extra bit, everyone did. In the other teams, not so much.