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@D-4got10-01 Initially I assumed the guy knows what he's doing and is just playing games but the more I deal with thim the more I see that under that fake confidence facade theres not that much actual technical competence.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
Got fed up with my newcomer PO's bullshit planning and constant gaslighting whenever deadlines get missed.
Made a spreadsheet showing our actual capacity vs his unrealistic expectations - turns out all of Q3 work is spilling into Q4, so I'll be spending October finishing July/August/September tasks.
Brought this up multiple times asking for more time or resources. Got denied and blamed instead.
It got really bad to the point where I had to start doing his work for him - make business decisions, create tickets, define acceptance criteria, requirements and etc. Just so I would have some paper trail so that I wouldnt get blamed again in case I'm missing some undefined requirement. Finally couldn't take it anymore and escalated to my dev lead.
Now the PO is getting absolutely chewed out. Feels fucking good to finally see him face consequences for their terrible planning.
On another note - is it a disease or do the most useless people just naturally gravitate toward management positions? For example, this guy is supposed to be a decision maker but answers almost every business question vaguely, ambiguously, or just straight up ignores it. How the fuck such people even exist, it just blows my mind.
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