I can.
I was stuck in a job I hated for over a decade, and not only that, I was the guy on the team doing the shit jobs no one else would do because many of the older, tenured people didn’t want to work weekend hours ever.
I remember the slight panic in my boss’s eyes when I put in my two weeks, but it wasn’t half as sweet as my former coworker’s panicking when they realized that they’d have to figure out how to do my job without my help. One even had the balls to say something to me about selfishness.
You see, they’d also declined my offer to train them on the functions I was involved in and the items I created.
Glorious.
The irony is that, for the job I have now (which I LOVE!) I spent the interview talking about the databases and resources I’d created in the former shit job, and that work got me hired. My new employers treat me like absolute gold.
Yeah culture is so important, you can work somewhere people are like whatever we used to do it by hand and nobody died, and then you move somewhere they realize the excel sheet you made saves them hours of time each day. It’s just sad so many people out there working at and owning businesses and they’re just not interested in pursuing best practices.
I always loved the “selfishness” take regarding jobs. It’s business not friendship.
