I often get told that I’m asking questions that engineers shouldn’t worry about. The cost of this or that, how this affects users, where do we want the actual product to end up as opposed to where we want this particular change to end up.

“Stay in my lane”, I’m told.

I ask questions outside of my lane because I’m tired of being laid off because they company is in financial troubles and yet I’m being asked to build a poll question module for the app that will not help our financial situation at all.

I’m asking the questions that should have been asked by now.