I got fired from a programming job because I wrote code for maybe 30 minutes a day, but spent all my other time going from desk to desk helping other devs find problems and get unstuck. It was maybe the most productive I've ever been on a job.

That day, I learned a valuable lesson: do an hour of work a day (or week), then sit at your desk pretending to work while parceling out the stuff you did. Never help anyone. My career has been much more successful since.

[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The truth of this is incredibly depressing. There are some people who's best skill is elevating others but that's a thing which is impossible to quantify.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

The accounting team will quantify it easily. It just won’t be accurate.