Episode 339: Coworker double-dipping and building toxic community

Published: Jan. 16, 2023, noon

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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    I think the new hire on my team is juggling multiple jobs.

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    On several screen shares, I\\u2019ve seen them quickly close IDEs with third party code, browser windows with what look like a third party jira instance, etc. Maybe that\\u2019s some open source project, or a jira instance where they\\u2019re reporting a bug, but it seems fishy. In the latest instance, this person meant to post a link to the Jira issue they\\u2019re working on in our company Slack, but accidentally posted a link to a ticket on some other company\\u2019s Jira. I did some digging and this is definitely not a public-facing Jira instance. It\\u2019s internal for their employees only.

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    Normally if somebody could do both jobs competently, I\\u2019d say good for them and they\\u2019ve earned both salaries. However, their performance hasn\\u2019t been great. We\\u2019re still in the onboarding phase and a lot of missteps could be excused by that, but I\\u2019m starting to worry that this person\\u2019s goal is to offer only mediocre performance at this job (and probably the other one as well) and we\\u2019re unlikely to see expected levels of improvement as they continue to get up to speed.

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    Am I being paranoid? Should I raise my concerns with management or give it more time to shake out? Is there a clever trap I can set to *prove* my suspicions for sure?

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    I recently joined a large software defined telecommunication company, only to be surprised that their internal blind space is very quiet and very few ppl are on blind if any, how do I change this ? how do I get ppl to use blind more? without giving away my blind account. quitting my job is not an option due to the economy

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