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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I agree. But it also pays to understand the implications when you ask for promotion. A 10% is one thing. Hiring a whole other person to replace you is quite another. Expecting managers to reconcile all those things nicely while giving everybody what they want is not reasonable.
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@shelbyspees ("shelby spees") replied to a tweet by polotek:
@polotek especially the de facto version where you "promote" the lead into the manager role but they're still responsible for all the tech lead work because there's nobody who can backfill it