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Me: I need more programmers for the project.
Boss: You have 4 people, that's enough.
Me: I have 3 juniors taking 50% of time of a senior (me) contributing less than a medior and rest of my time goes to managing project. I know that in 6 months time invested in them will start paying off, but right now I need more people. Also I don't have me, by that logic, cleaning lady comes to the office every day and we couldn't work witout her, so there's 5 people, at least.
Boss: You'll manage.
Inner me: I would if I was working 8 hours as programmer without tutoring and managing.
Me: Sigh.

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  • 3
    I understand your situation 😓
  • 8
    Ya, I was working at half capacity and still expected bill 100%. Nearly got burned out by two juniors in a row without a break between. I pushed for better routines when onboarding noobs and managed to postpone total burn out and the accompanied depression for a couple more years 👍
  • 1
    Technically he is right though, you will manage. Sadly no one will be coding efficiently, but oh well.
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