Doing everyone else's job - comments

earn to die

earn to die — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:23:49 +0000

I totally get where you’re coming from! I used to juggle multiple roles at my job – it’s exhausting. Learning to set boundaries helped me focus on my own tasks more effectively. Ever thought about how that ties into game strategy, https://cookieclickers2.io/ like in Earn to Die? Balancing priorities is key!

Slope Run

Slope Run — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:58:30 +0000

I totally relate to the struggle of feeling like we’re doing everyone else's job! It's exhausting but often necessary. It makes me think about teamwork and accountability. Have you checked out slope rider ? They highlight how collaboration can ease that burden!

ragdoll playground

ragdoll playground — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:47:12 +0000

What a thought-provoking post! Your insights on collaboration and not overstepping roles really resonate. How do you think we can encourage accountability without stepping on toes? Also, loving the vibes at ragdoll playground!

Xavier Peterson

Xavier Peterson — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:36:37 +0000

I completely resonate with the struggle of doing everyone else's job. It reminds me of times when I felt overwhelmed, trying to juggle multiple roles in my own workplace. It's a slippery slope that often leads to burnout. I think it's crucial we set boundaries and encourage collaboration instead—after all, we're all in this together! Also, the teamwork aspect really shines through in games like space waves, where cooperation is key!

byko3y

byko3y — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:14:08 +0000

Strange moral/conclusion, seemingly almost like "let's fix sloppy management errors ourselves" (although personally I'm fine with vague/open endings). I got into the story of trying to fix things I'm not supposed to and I met a significant opposition as I was messing with upper management plans, despite the fact those plans failed to deliver multiple times in a row. Enterprise psychologists are repeatedly telling that "self-sacrifice" is the best thing for the team, but in the environment of extremely broken reward and punishment (e.g. regular western society) "playing for your own score only" is actually the best bet i.e. take credit for success, externalize failures, never do more than you have to do — while trying to "play for a team" will let someone else do an easy credit steal. As a company becomes isolated from regular society (i.e. elite and technical), tries to be professional and account personal efforts, you'd expect it turn all the way around, but it does not: it's still about closed tasks, loud features, "best practices" — because in the end it's all about selling something to regular people, and to sell something to regular people you got to think like regular people do. I mean Tesla is a horrible car and its software is dogshit, but you can sell it because it does not look like your regular car — technically a failure, economically it's 50/50 (barely survived), culturally a success (everybody's talking about Tesla on twitter) — and once you have enough money you can eventually fix the existing problems (or just hype over them). What's it to you that you work on Tesla and you know you've rescued the project from an imminent failure? When Starlink was about to fail, Musk came, fired 7 top engineers and said "I saved the Starlink" — while reality is that Musk was particularly at fault for driving Starlink the wrong way for many years and those 7 fired engineers were instantly rehired by Amazon. Be an unknown superhero that saves the world — what for? For sanity of mind? Lots of regular people would say you are mad. If you realize the casino rules are broken — you leave the casino, you don't stay with inner conviction "I know I am a winner".