https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethanevansvp_thats-not-my-job-the-first-time-someone-activity-7179864957931413504-hyHO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android When your manager gives you any work, you can't say no. You can't say that's not my job. Your manager defines your job. You are expected to do testing, front end, backend, app dev, devops, PM, UI/UX design, SRE, ML, data analyst, data scientist, data engineering, sales and marketing, customer support, technical writer, ops etc. Heck, if you're at Uber, you're supposed to drive taxis. (We really do.) If you're at Amazon, you should work in warehouses. If you're at Meta, idk work in data centers as a janitor. Get it? Your manager owns you completely end to end. - your Baldy, Bozos.
I'm a trained and experienced professional, so yeah I can say no.
Same of you are office clerk, construction engineer or any other worker.
Some of you are owned by CCP working 996. Others have a backbone and disagree with their insane mgmt.
Yes at Amazon SDEs are expected to do literally everything
Fine to have ownership but it cuts both ways, employers need to reward people for doing this. At Amazon they say you aren’t being frugal with your time when you take on work outside core responsibility which penalizes you, or they say you lack ownership if you decline. It’s all politics and LP based performance reviews are easy to manipulate outcomes based on preference
Amazon LPs are simple: it's an army for Baldy Bezos. You're a little serf in it. Do what your manager says, else he will lash some whips.
I want to be owned.
Sundar owns you. Move to Amazon (esp AWS), bytedance, startups, Elon, etc for more ownership.
In this case, early in my career before I was a manager (so this was not me giving a report an assignment) I suggested a person do something I believed was valuable. He told me, "that's not in my job description, would you like to see it?" This stunned me. I couldn't believe that he would refer to a piece of paper rather than consider the idea based on it's merits. This experience impacted me so deeply that 15 years later it would inspire the language I wrote in an Amazon Leadership Principle: "An owner never says ‘that's not my job” Seriously why didn’t you do it yourself wtf lol
It’s called fuck you money. Get it. Spend it wisely on those asshole managers
This guy is a total management psychopath. You can literally hand him a task and he wouldn't be able to accomplish it himself without an army of reports. The difference between a true leader and a scum manager like Ethan Evans is that a true leader understands the work inside out - to the point that they can do it themselves if their reports are unable to do it. They distribute the workload, don't hold "ownership" over people. "Ownership" is only for large equity holders, everyone else is just doing a job. A great leader understands this innately, and yet leads from the front by taking a lot of the burden themselves. Do not follow these garbage managers.
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