Yay, I won my bet against a colleague to see what developer (colleague) would be fired first.

Easiest €10 of my life

My senior just created this beauty of an API...

Mixing undefined/null values with empty strings & random hyphens for other variables. And the phone number not following standarised notation (we are a telephone provider)

Jira advertisement...

Quote from my new colleague: "I rather cut of <colleagues> fingers".

They both were troubleshooting a server problem. Both of them did not cause the server problem afaik.

Third official day back in the office today... And I'm alone in the devOps room

That lasted long \o/

one week back from my holidays and so far:
- 3 server outages
- 1 developer will be fired
- 2 new employees (company has around 35 employees)
- 2 employees leaving
- outsourced designs, the designer surely didn't read the feature research doc nor followed style sheet
- a small, easy feature has not yet been finished by the rest of the team
- new devOps engineer wants to rewrite our entire tech stack

But at least the CEO was doing it's best and ran away from the problems & ran 150km

Today is the first day that we have to go back to the office and more than half of the company is exempt from that rule

I'm one day back from my holidays and we already had 2 server outages....

a quote of todays daily standup:

"<other guy>, did you had time to investigate that disastrous SQL query. I had no time, one of my horses was giving birth"

The HR lady is pushing out the communications that the work from home policy starts on 2 September. Her last day at the company is 30th Augustus

I had a company event last Friday and the CEO announced to go back to 2 days in the office.

And a bit later, he went on a spiel that employees should disable notifications more to focus. But he wants that we go back to the office... an open office with a lot more background noise.

My closest colleague that I work the most with is 2000 km away....

Work gave me a linux computer and asks to integrate an application that has no Linux support and wonder why it is going slower. The linux computer also has not enough RAM to develop comfortable on a VM

*sigh*

age++;

The last few weeks, my tasks mainly consists of testing & designing... This sucks and i havent written any code in a long time

In my last rant, I complained about our rebranding document that was very much lacking... Their listed colours are slightly different than the colours used in their logo...

How do they fuck up copy pasting the colour values. And yes, it was meant to be the same.

We have gotten a rebranding 'document' that we have to implement. It contains 1 image, 4 colors and a new font excluding the font name. Nothing more.

How the fuck did the company pay so much for something so bare bones...

One of our frontend developers was legally blind and was responsible for design.

He did leave his company around 3 years ago but the company was happy with him & his work. What a weird combo :D

Is it normal for a developer to go the customers to troubleshoot a certain problem?

I mean, we got technicians & support department

What the fuck is this joke of an "event" for celebrating the 10th anniversary of this company...

I've just learned that our front-end application throws a simple 404 error when trying to retrieve an avatar that does not exists.

But our technicians/support use this error in the console to show the customers that there is indeed a problem with the application functionality but have unsufficient logging from the back-end to troubleshoot with their internal tools.

What a bunch of liars trying to keep the customer satisfied and it works relatively well :D

Today a comment from a coworker:
"this <ex-developer> was here for some time. 1.5 year or 2 years... That's like 7 sales-terms of employment :D"

Kinda funny, the company I work for, has around 1k followers on linkedIn. The only interactions it has on any posts is either from 1 or 2 sales people & 2 founders. Any poll they do on Linkedin has maximum 3 votes

Recently my work is just making designs for upcoming features / reworks that will probably take months to even start developing. I mentioned a few weeks ago again that I rather write code and now this sprint, it is 100% design tickets :(

I've had today a meeting with the CEO regarding some designs. Here have some quotes that he made:

1. So you can click, click, click, click, click
2. numbers are so complicated so I just said something
3. I like the vibe in Amsterdam
4. We are doing a rebranding. Our rebranding document is the color of the 2 blues and one orange
5. I've to ask my wife for the design (with no design experience) to make the rebranding documents
6. In <the app our technicians/support use>, you can brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb
7. This is what differeniate us between most applications; FAVORITE SQUARES
8. I never watch that mess. I don't even know if it works or have ever worked with it. (talking about a simple table view)
9. You have been reported to the admins (in an admin-only application for our customers)
10. It's always nice to see developers think; when I don't think
11. But it's already an iPhone (when looking at android designs & cries in largest userbase in my country)

I currently have a design meeting with the CEO. He joined the meeting on his iPhone mini and the designs are for a desktop app.

What a joke

Last week, my project manager said that next Wednesday (today), we should have a meeting in person... Take a guess who is working from home

Last year, a new project manager started that wants every limitation fixed that was approved by the previous one...

It feels he will open the Pandora's box for very very minor gain.

my workplace had the idea to create a shared calendar with the birthdays of all colleagues.

Now around 10 months later, this calendar is filled with the birthdays of ex-colleagues... Who thought that was a good idea lol

I just learned that the senior in my team earns more after taxes than my gross salary (medior) per month :(

While he is a full remote worker from a country where the average salary is 60% of my countries average salary.

While i'm certainly happy for his salary... My salary does not look correct compared to his

The only person responsible for the server maintenance has put in his resignation period in.

The other person that has access to the servers does not know the difference between production & lab.

Fun times ahead