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Me and a fellow friend started working as a freelancer.
of 3 projects that we have:
One has a terrible code (like really nasty and over engineered to the maximum). albeit each new feature is a challenge to our sanity... they pay are are somewhat nice.
Another after we did the job they don't want to pay (thankfully we are on a platform that is like the middle man for work, they already have the money so should be "trivial") because they say we did not do what they asked. Brother, the 2 A.M. is not an hour to be called, and we did all the little shitty task they askend AND the original tasks...
And in the last one we hired a team to work with us because we don't have more hours in a day... and they only rename some vars, call it a day, ignoring the task on the sprint and they wanna get paid for the "job"
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We are refactoring the core feature of our unique selling point of our backend that all our products use.
And our product manager just decided that we will roll it out on Wednesday and we will not do any tests. r/whatcouldgowrong2 -
Someone's going to be fired. Not me. When I joined my current company I was severely unwell. The survival rate for the state I was in was only slightly better than cancer (at 2 years less than 3 in 4 survive). I told work all of this. As far as I can tell they did nothing. As far as I can tell they didn't belive me. They've now got shitty about my performance and have actually asked for an independent review of my health. It is bad. It's significantly better than it was and it probably sounds worse than it is, but it is bad. They don't even know how much worse it was when I joined because they DIDN'T GET AN ASSESSMENT LIKE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO. Someone is getting fired. HR hasn't responded to my emails since last Tuesday when they got the assessment. The only person that's said anything to me is my manager, he was in a bit of a grump last Wednesday (I don't think they'd told him yet) but he's being nice today, not a single word of criticism.
Someone is getting fired.11 -
This is a first... My CEO made a youtube video announcing that they fired an employee (sales). I don't even know why they had to make a youtube video. The link was part of an email, just write it down in that email instead of labeling it as "small message from our CEO"
So disrespectful in my opinion.6 -
Every year my work sends out a "mental health awareness week" email including some "useful resources" and the biggest problem for my mental health is those assholes.12
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A cautionary tale, dear devRanters:
"My husband was laid off by Microsoft after 25 years — by algorithm. His last day is his birthday."
https://reddit.com/r/microsoft/...
Enjoy life outside of work1 -
OKAY I GOT IT ITS SCALABLE THANK YOU NO I DONT WANT TO BUY A LICENCE NO I DONT WANT TO WATCH YOUR WEBINAR NO PLEASE GOD NO2
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My team mate is so fucking bad that I use his mistakes as interview questions for internship positions. So I really make sure I don't have a second Ouistiti in my team.6
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Quote of my CEO today: "We are never going to get an other lawyer as customer... Only problems!"
Imagine our users knowing their rights, such a shame.2 -
Company wants to change to a different cloud provider because of credits :/
Thus rebuilding the infrastructure from ground up.
Worst part is Azure sucks.3 -
I give up.
I have to make a bunch of disparate things work together, in an otherwise easy-sounding ask, and they’re all broken. Every one of them is broken. Even links between them are broken. Devs hardcoding incorrect values; devs pushing broken code, broken dependencies, broken configs. The orchestration is broken. The containers are broken. The NATS/gRPC flow is broken. Nothing works out of the box; many of the pieces require config and env hacking to run, and when they do run, the data formats don’t match between services (nor do e.g. account IDs). I can’t do it anymore. I was so burned out before this ticket that I couldn’t look at anything work related without feeling physical pain. And now this.
I’ve spent weeks just getting things to run and talk, and being ignored when I ask for help. There have been walls every step of the way, and I’m still not done. I can’t do this anymore.9 -
Client: “We need a very simple app where waiters speak orders, and it prints automatically. No typing.”
Also client:
Speech-to-text with noise
Identify table, dish, modifiers
Group orders per table
Add more orders later
Dual printer output
CSV reports
Budget? Less than a round of beers at the bar.joke/meme web-dev ai clients unrealistic-expectations sarcasm speech-to-text devrant programmer-life software-estimates freelance voice-recognition12 -
Slacktivism and privacy don't mix well. Privacy is a conscious, active effort that never ends. Don't outsource privacy. Avoid integrated "privacy" solutions that offer centralized "all-in-one privacy thing" for a monthly fee/for free, like Proton and Brave. Privacy doesn't exist without decentralization.3
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