Current workload as dev lead:
- 1% actual development
- 2,5% waiting for SaaS to load
- 2,5% cursing company server network connectivity issues
- 5% switching VPNs
- 7,5% pkg management & deploys
- 10% writing JIRA and support tickets
- 12,5% filling in timesheets
- 15% coaching & reviewing a bot coworker
- 19% doing 2FA, refreshing expired passwords
- give up and spend the remaining 25% doing something meaningful

salutations, fellow henchman!

I worked for a consulting company and they wanted everything timesheeted

sometimes it got so crazy I would put into the timesheets that I was doing timesheets

I can't recall if they were pissed about that or not but I was sweating putting that in lmao

I'd fix / automate or multitask all the technical slowdown things

when I was made lead my work hours were actually cut in half and I somehow actually didn't decrease my amount of code output... because the managers were told my time was valuable so people only put me into meetings they actually needed my input for or just messaged me instead of a meeting. fuck that was rad

code reviews took up more time than coding, which I think makes perfect sense. if you're good at your job it makes more sense to build up little clones of you, and you're basically still coding but more "hands-off" and "slower" to your eyes (because other people will make decisions you know are dumb), though faster and more efficient to the company's eyes because objectively it is so

I may have viewed my job like I was a conductor of an orchestra

I prefer ticket/issue grunts because bot coworkers is ambiguous and may lead mgmt to consider replacing with AI, which from my experience just means more pressure and work for you.

AI seems like more throughput and efficiency from the outside but from my experience usually means less throughout quality work and less intelligent decisions.

50% attending pointless meeting the customer demands to have the whole dev team in

40% trying to diplomatically tell the customer that they are complete and utter idiots and their ideas are so stupid that they're actively increasing the risk of brain cancer all around

7% getting coffee

3% actual dev work

@webketje thanks for this valuable insight in what does future look like for me

Fuck!!!

timesheetception ☝🏻 @jestdotty, the dottynator, summed it up.

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Wait no meetings? What a paradise

Sounds like you're living the true dev lead dream! Where can I apply for a job where 25% of my time is spent doing something meaningful

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