Forgive the hastily made meme. All too common with us engineers.
Engineer: "It does one thing."
Sales/marketing: "It does ANYTHING!"
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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"... by the way, we've already sold that feature I made up to two customers, so ..."
In an open source project, I worked with another younger dev who did this. It was not the way I wanted so I just didn't do it.
Absolutely fucking correct, and that's the part that I hate much more than not being given proper credit.
Oh dear Lord...
Eng: so we were discussing this concept, and it’s something we might be able to put together in 6-8 months. Would th-
Sales: HEY JIM LETS GO SELL THIS FUCKIN THING
Eng: …what.
Eh when sales says "we made this" it means the whole company in my mind, not them stealing the credit.
Now we sales says "we'll make this" is when you have a problem.
That was it. This started because there was a slide deck that showed this huge project that I've spent the last year on. This was 100% a software project. On the slide deck saying thanks, all of engineering got a single bullet point, while marketing and sales got oh, the other 90% of the slide. You know, just that pesky task of building the damn thing, that's just over here, in the corner, it's everyone else who really did the work.
All for people getting credit where credit is due, but man did that feel like a slap in the face to me. Sad thing is it happens all the time, this is nothing new, just a regular day of the week