[jknz]

Managing remote school sessions plus my work was a mess.

I made my 10 and 12yo kids drop their remote school stuff and work with me instead. The young one is responsible for slack, keeping everyone in the living room updated and replying with text and the occasional gif, he also summarizes with voice important incoming emails. Older one writes python code alongside me and I now mostly check her syntax. She learned git at the beginning of the pandemic and my manager is now impressed that commits from us get pushed while I am on the phone with him.

The kids drafted an email yesterday to ask for a raise and align my compensation with that of 1senior+2juniors SWE. Fingers crossed

[SenoraRaton]

I'm pretty sure child labor is against the law....

[smabie]

Sounds like you are becoming obsolete!

[tolbish]

Except the kid dicking around Slack did more team bonding than you ever bothered doing and now he has your job.

[duutfhhh]

That email will make a senior HR person have a serious talk with 10 other HRs and lawyers, because the matter is non trivial, but their answer will be (delivered by your manager): "you'll get an extra bonus at the next perf cycle." Then they will wait if you settle for this.