When did we forget our dreams?*

My manager and I had a talk last week. He was a bit disappointed that I do not know many things about the project. I do not know those change process and the number of those bugs in SIT. I just told him that there are too many emails and sometimes I don’t have the time to read it. The truth is I don’t really care and I don’t want to care. I want to concentrate on coding and designing.

The conversation dragged on. What he wanted was for me to do some other things not related to coding and designing. He wanted me to develop business analyst skills. And he wanted me to want it. He wants me to ask for it. It is some sort of a compliance technique. If I asked for it I will be responsible for it. If I ask for it I could not blame him if I have too many things to do.

He was a bit angry when he learned that: (1) I would not do extra work(business analyst work) voluntarily if it is not asked of me (2) I want to spend more time on non-work related things and (3) no plan to climb the corporate ladder. He also asked me what is my value in the team and why should they keep me. I wanted to answer that he should ask it to himself. The only question I need to answer is why would I want to stay.

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He also said that anyone can code. He is right. Anyone can code, but monkeys can also manage.

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*I got the title from xkcd.