@Nanos I love code too much. I've looked into management a bit and read a couple books on it, but I would never feel comfortable interviewing for managerial roles and the decision to move away from code would hurt my ability to stay on top of it. If I knew someone was being underpaid for their skills I wouldn't see that as a "win", if I successfully scapegoated another department for something that was my fault I wouldn't feel proud of that, and if I did some thing illegal in order to prop up my KPIs I would have trouble sleeping at night. I'm just not cut out for the role. I'd rather accumulate as much respect and reputation as a competent and trustworthy bottom runger than try to compete in the narcisisstic, power hungry, overvalued, and exploitative world of management.

@MammaNeedHummus I guess I haven't posted in awhile. This guy used to give me postable content weekly, you must have joined DevRant after he calmed down for a bit. Check my post history. He's.... where all my karma came from 😬.

@MammaNeedHummus It was a fun week while it lasted, team really came together to stick it to him. Made me *almost* even consider a future in leadership.

...🤮

@Demolishun Haha! Other than dealing with this doofus my life is going extrodinarily well. Appreciate it though

@pandasama Not usually, he's supposed to table it at the planning portion of the scrum but he doesn't like doing that because we make him realise how vague his requirements are by asking questions and he very defensive usually ending in him throwing a temper tantrum and accusing us that the only reason we're asking questions is that we are lazy and don't want to work. Why not ask the client? He doesn't like me asking questions to the client because he feels it makes it seem like we don't know everything (no shit, that's why we're asking). He gets away with it because the client doesn't record what they ask for either and nobody ever gets held accountable for anything. It's only when someone senior on one side or another gets involved that all of a sudden everything kicks into action and by that I mean everyone points the finger at everyone else as to why nothing is getting done and we're told to "work better" but with no follow up or accountability.

Meanwhile I fix some bugs.

@asgs Yeah honestly it was a shocker and it was a very well recieved and appreciated sentiment. Although it could also be a very sly way of telling someone they're dogshit and they can go fuck off and make the world a worse place somewhere else. But he didn't say to apply to work on Google Firebase specifically so 50/50 what he actually meant. /s

TIL, lmao oops. 🤡.

@Lasoloz Yup, generous as in any less and the employment offer would be unlawful. How generous.

@iSwimInTheC @Lensflare 👌

@TrevorTheRat They are insanely good as long as everyone practices safe cooking. Otherwise it’s a recipe for hershy squirts. Still worth it though.

@PepeTheFrog No but that’s one to avoid I gather?

@n4m31ess-c0d3r Ooooooo I didn’t think of that. I’m stealing it, thanks!

@electrineer I don’t really have the clout or influence to organize labour in any way. Especially since most people who would be interested in that kind of play have either been fired or left. Truth be told I didn’t recognize a single face other than senior management and HR when coming back to the office after 2 years away. The entire place has turned over by the looks of it.

@Lasoloz Yeah I don’t know how common it is this is the first massive company I’ve worked for. I overheard them talking about social media communication policy in a meeting room the other day and what they can do about stopping people from saying bad things about the company online because apparently it’s becoming a huge issue. Not sure how often that’s normally in HR’s scope?

@Demolishun Not a bad idea

@Lasoloz They won’t come after you for the act of sharing food. They’ll take the angle that you were stealing company resources and participating in time-theft for non-work related activities (ie. company email/meeting requests/coordinating on teams chat event logistics). It’s HR so a large part of their job is finding and documenting a defensible reason to fire you if need be. They’ll come up with the most plausible thing they can muster.

@Lasoloz Progressive discipline for those caught violating company policy. Verbal —> Write up —> Suspension —> Termination.

Of course employees could push back like they somewhat successfully did about the halloween costume competition (will post later) but many left working here now are 1st and 2nd generation immigrants and don’t have a whole lot of resources to fall back on if they lose their job and those that have publicly spoken out against HR in the past tend to be terminated shortly afterwards. (Lots of lost wrongful dismissal cases though from what I’ve heard so at least you get a bit of a payday out of it).

@jiraTicket Massive company in this case, small dev team. IT got completely shipped overseas to the lowest bidder until they realized you get what you pay for. For 8 years not a single IT project went successfully. They could only process password resets and hardware rentals, any ticket other than that was closed without explanation or recourse because they signed a massive 15 year contract with no exit clause and no concrete deliverables (genius, no wonder the price was good). Things eventually got desperate and the caved in to setting aside some capital for some internal development.

@jiraTicket HR in this case

@jeeper Fell out of bed laughing this morning after reading this. Thanks man, really cheered me up

@Lasoloz noted.

Beware the blizard people

@darkwind Reading this right now, it’s good

@illuminaughty “racecar”.reverse()👌

@kiki YOU GUYS HAVE STABLE COMMITS??? /s

CTO: I want things done correctly not quickly

Dev: Ok

CTO: WHY ARE THINGS NOW TAKING LONGER THAN USUAL???

Dev: …

Fucking people that say shit like “correctly not quickly” I swear to fuck. What they mean is they want none of the consequences of rushing whilst having a task still move at a rushed pace. It’s like pick one fuck face this ain’t a candy shop.

https://youtu.be/_IZoS0eVGW4

@netikras Plus if I showed him git blame it’s all he’d use all day in order to pull people into meetings and dress them down about writing a line of code that was involved in a bug which is more annoying than having 300 lines of code in a ~320 line file

@netikras I don’t think it’s stupidity in this case I think it’s narcissism and arrogance. He doesn’t like git and anything other than the basics of how to push and pull he thinks is for try-hard nerds and that there’s better things to spend time on.

@Demolishun Yeah but so does an LOC over 9000. /s