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by geraldwhen 1537 days ago
No hill is worth dying on for a company, unless perhaps its an early stage startup and you're running out of cash.

I have a family to support, and saying "OK" to bad decisions from on high has never threatened my livelihood.
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disambiguation 1537 days ago
> No hill is worth dying on for a company

Wish I got this advice much earlier in my career

Though on the flip side, don't sit and eat shit from your company when you have extremely high value in the fastest growing industry in the world.

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Daishiman 1537 days ago
> I have a family to support, and saying "OK" to bad decisions from on high has never threatened my livelihood.

This doesn't necessarily work out in practice. When bad decisions have consequences many people will look for scapegoats, and blindly following orders can still make you a scapegoat.

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geraldwhen 1537 days ago
In my own past I’ve pointed out issues non-confrontationally. But I smile and go along with it if the feedback is discarded. I’ve seen tens of millions of dollars lost to bad tech decisions. Occasionally someone will mention that I predicted the failure a year or two prior, and I shrug.
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