u/QuitTypical3210

Essentially I’ve been working on some shitty product for a while and due to the good work that we’ve done prior (me and a smaller team), we got a big project related to it. Essentially the project started out as shit and then some people like me were brought in to make it not shit. And now it’s not shit.

With the new project, it has tight deadlines, management brought in a bunch of people and new leads that don’t have any idea how it’s actually used, and IMO just devolved into a mess a couple months in.

I tried helping initially with past lessons learned but these people are set on fitting their square peg in a round hole to make everything amazingly better and the PRs are made without understanding anything about the customer with constant pushback that their way is better and uninformed leads just agree.

I’m sorta burnt out from this experience and don’t really care anymore, as long as I’m not sweeping up the mess. I essentially want my own assigned work to be good idgaf about the other people’s crap anymore

Is this feasible as a senior who still wants upward trajectory?

I would have thought every minute, it would. So if I hit the quota and wait like 2 minutes; I can use it again. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. More like 24 hours.

Is there a known limit?

I have a tendency to flow everything back up to a lead and make them choose the direction. I can have an opinion, but I don’t really feel strongly about them unless it’s something factual that the lead is. I just do whatever the lead says to do.

Is that bad? Or should I just be making my own decisions and then informing the lead?

The main issue on why I always ask for their decision rather than state what I will do is because I don’t know their vision and they’re in control of it which is why they’re the lead. I don’t want to do something and then the lead says it’s all wrong.

But IDK if I should be doing that managing up style where I have a plan to execute or get their approval or decision on everything. I don’t know how much “freedom” I get in what I do, so it just feels easier for me to tell me what to do. But maybe they hate that