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>>laiysb+(OP)
Malicious compliance should be the order of the day. Just approve the requests without reviewing them and wait until management blinks when Microsoft's entire tech stack is on fire. Then quit your job and become a troubleshooter on x3 the pay.

>>global+23
I know this is meant to sound witty or clever, but who actually wants to behave this way at their job?

I'll never understand the antagonistic "us vs. them" mentality people have with their employer's leadership, or people who think that you should be actively sabotaging things or be "maliciously compliant" when things aren't perfect or you don't agree with some decision that was made.

To each their own I guess, but I wouldn't be able to sleep well at night.

>>sbarre+C9
Do you sleep well at night just doing what you're told by people who don't really care about your well being?

I don't get that

>>bluefi+4q
There's a whole lot of assumptions in your statement/question there, don't you think?

>>sbarre+kq
Sorry, you are right. I was unnecessarily snarky

I read some of your other comments in this thread and I'm not sure what to make of your experience. If you've never felt mistreated or exploited in a 30 year career you are profoundly lucky to have avoided that sort of workplace

I've only been working in software for half as long, but I've never had a job that didn't feel unstable in some ways, so it seems impossible to me that you have avoided it for a career twice as long as mine

I have watched my current employer cut almost half of our employees in the past two years, with multiple rounds of layoffs

Now AI is in the picture and it feels inevitable that more layoffs will eventually come if they can figure out how to replace us with it

I do not sleep well knowing my employer would happily and immediately replace me with AI if they could