[mateo411]

This probably isn't a good idea because you are going to annoy your manager. Annoying your manager is not a good strategy to getting promoted.

Manager: I got this PagerDuty alert about the RefactoredRubeGoldberg System, can you look into it?

Report: Sure, how will this help me get promoted?

Manager: If you don't do this, then you won't get promoted.

You should periodically bring this up to your manager in the 1:1 meetings when you go over your projects that you are working on.

[nine_zeros]

> This probably isn't a good idea because you are going to annoy your manager. Annoying your manager is not a good strategy to getting promoted.

In a different world, I would agree with you 100%. But our industry is filled with managers who only look out for themselves.

For a manager who says "If you don't do this, then you won't get promoted", this is a bad faith power move. I have learned that when a manager says this and the IC acquiesces, the manager ends up with a proverbial upper hand. Often, this asymmetry is abused.

At that point, I highly recommend the IC to cut their losses and switch. Let the manager spend another 6-12 months staffing and ramping up someone else to do the work.