Value not the people who subscribed to you when you were the funniest person on the Internet, but those who stayed with you when you stopped posting
If you can neither get a raise not leave your current place, increase your labor value yourself by doing less for the same salary
#software_work_tips
#software_work_tips
If you need to get increased allocation of some resource (not necessarily monetary, this can be for example relaxed security limitations), start by asking absurdly high and then negotiate towards a "reasonable middle ground" higher than your current level
#software_work_tips
#software_work_tips
Use non-human-readable ids (for example objectGuid) instead of things like SAM account name or email address for data that you expect to live longer that a single day - names tend to change even if this was not originally planned by the spec.
#software_work_tips
#software_work_tips