[Aperocky]

> it's a silo that nobody wants to touch.

There are multiple silos of this where I work, not necessarily because nobody wants to touch it, but because we just don't have enough people.

I've picked one of them up and my teammate now come to me for advice when they deal with this silo of stuff.

Don't underestimate the small things, unless they're things that does not need to be done, in which case you need to raise this at planning and explain how they are not necessary to waste effort on, and bury them forever.

[hehsjsbb]

I've been kind of deliberately vague, but after a couple months it isn't like I'm an expert on the area of the codebase now and other people come to me for advice. Other team members actively dodge working on this silo and everything just gets deflected to me. It doesn't feel like being a respected person who has experience with an area of the codebase, it just feels like shit rolling downhill.