Let’s be realistic, that’s how the world works. It hasn’t changed, it isn’t changing, and it won’t change.
When you sign a contract, you “sold yourself” for a price to carry out specific tasks. If you performed tasks that are not part of your contract, that was your decision. Furthermore, all that work belongs to the company since you carried it out within the company, using the company’s resources, etc.
Being a freelancer sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t, as it depends on various factors such as your country, your programming and problem-solving skills, your adaptability, market competition, etc.
Here is what i did.
Setup a meeting with a decision maker in the company (not your superior, not HR, but a decision maker in the company), show him couple of examples on how much time does it take to finish a task using the conventional method, and then using a script/tool.
After that simply say that you can develop tools for the company but you need to change your position and paygrade.
If they say yes, then all is good and you got what you wanted
if they say no, say thank you, share with them the scripts you used in the presentation (just so there is no ill well from the supervisor) and simply do what you do best but for the tasks you have been assigned to, and while doing that keep looking for a different job.
You will shine among your peers entitling you to a raise. The problem is that they might not give you a raise, but additional tasks.
This is the only way, otherwise they will take all your hard work without a thank you.
I have been following this thread since the beginning and haven’t been sure if I should share my thoughts or not….
So much good have already been said
Agree on this.
@gerhard.p
I think this would have been a good start. You need to let them know about the value you have created for the company and that you want to continue to do this side by side with your ordinary job. Maybe you can be added as a specialist to project and use it as a opportunity to create new solutions and functions and the project can invest in your time for creating the functions and upgrade templates and save time consumed by the designers. Then the function and templates can be reused in other projects.
Yes sir, promoted to a Construction technology manager (a new position that was created for me, believe it or not)
That happened after one year though.
@gerhard.p
Something to note, the production team resisted the change. Meaning they knew one way of doing something, and then some guy came and showed them an improved way.
when that happens, stick to you tools, do more research and create some more. I promise you they will come to you, especially if your company monitors projects using KPIs
Great to hear @NERDASORUS
This is how things should work out!
@patrick.ericson
I am logging who is using which tool in which project. Date, time, …, usernames are saved as hash code.
I presented logs from 3 Months (10k clicks) and calculations what such tools would cost, how much time was saved and so on. Still 3 levels of managers can´t see that this is worth investing money. Thats why i leave. I could have talked to 3 walls also^^ This is not a case of wrong strategy, this is a case of wrong company.
Implementing a proper licencing mechanism is a big lesson I learned.
I understand you, yes then it’s not worth it. It might been a hard lesson but at least you bring your knowledge with you in to the next company.
Your old employee will at least have hard time when they have to do the updates of your graphs and functions without you (if they ever will have the possibility to do that without help)
you deserve it ;))