[hnben]

pick your battles. You decide what extra work is worth your effort.

learn to say "no", by which i mean "yes, but...". e.g. "can you look at this production issue?" --> "yes, but it is outside my comfort zone, so i will have to charge at least 8 extra hours of overtime towards that issue".

[pdimitar]

Sure. The problem is more like that during the interviews I was made to believe this is welcome and on day one I was told in no uncertain terms that I'll follow a script to the letter or get fired. Which ultimately happened.

Shitty luck and all sometimes, of course. But really, most of the HN crows very quickly glances over how many toxic and terrible places to work at exist out there.