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📣 ulrischa

How to convince your Boss that webdev is hard?


My Boss in my large company thinks it infrastructure is more important and difficult than web development. He thinks it is just like making a wird document. That is why I alone do webdev and admin for 50 websites while our it infrastructure Team is playing pocket billard. How to show how important and difficult webdev is today?

  👤 pacifika Accepted Answer ✓
Be transparent in your decision making, blockers; communicate the pros and cons of your bosses decisions on your work.

In summary understand your works impact and considerations and challenges.

If that fails suggest shadowing each other for some time. Or maybe show the impact of your code on the areas he values, eg efficiency improvements.

If it’s company culture then it might not be possible to change by yourself.

👤 allears
If you have a crappy boss but good skills, get another job.
👤 beauHD
> He thinks it is just like making a wird document

Frontend used to be just HTML, CSS, and a sprinkling of JS. Then the engineers took over and JS is no longer a sprinkling. It means build steps, web components, React, integrating best practices, learning new frameworks every month, performance, and a panoply of other things.

👤 colesantiago
Tell him to do the website changes instead of you if it's very easy for him.

Should he says no, there's your answer.

If he says yes he'll do the changes, take a long trip for a month without any intervention from your part.

Then count how many times he begs you to come back.

👤 homarp
go on vacation for a few weeks