Afrer an excruciating year of work, all I get is a ridiculous pay increase barely covering inflation. I am seriously considering resigning by the beginning of the year and live on benefits.
Even worst : the levelling of my current company is absolutely stupid, which I take as an insult to all the things I do and I can do while others apparently at my level would not even be able to think about. But yeah, I refuse to be a buffoon who spend his time posting useless bullshit on Slack.
Plus my manager is always on my back giving his opinion on absolutely everything, being wrong 90% of the time. I checked yesterday. 1 contribution from this person per month. But always very keen to prevent me from doing my job.
I am so fucking done.

I hear you man. I’ll share a story I don’t want to rant about in case it makes it outside of this sphere. Probably comments are less likely.

They hire this shitter about a year and a half ago. His position is one level senior to mine but I’m his senior in the company. He gets paid significantly more than me also due to being a contractor (employee pay is fucked in our company due to reasons).

He never ends up learning his job. Is the most lazy piece of shit I’ve met since working at a minimum wage job. He’s a compulsive liar too. Don’t trust him as far as I can throw him.

Past six months I’ve been forcing him to do more work, partially so save his ass because MY boss (technically the one directly above us both on org chart) is starting to catch on finally.

He spends months on a feature that should have taken a week or two. Leaves it to the absolute last minute. The code diff is like 50 entire lines. It doesn’t even work… (continued)

… he rushes changes to make it just work because deadline is expired by weeks at this point. Barely passes QA at all. I don’t have time to personally test very much due to the code coming back from QA same day as deployment and pressure from up above.

It runs like shit, and there are other side effects. Oh well. Not my issue.

Fast forward two months. Surprise surprise partial production outage because of this shitty code. One entire customer (of multiple users) unable to access the site at all. Even when they were able to, load times slowly creeped up to one minute for the home page since deployment.

He gets the problem ticket assigned. I tell him to call customer. Another problem ticket comes in. He starts working on it. This is early in the morning…

He doesn’t contact the customer until 5pm. Of course it’s after business hours and they don’t get it. He also has not yet solved the problem. Reminder that this is his OWN CODE.

Next day, no update from him. Around 11am the customer contacts us again. This time, they CC our boss and the director of our entire department. That’s serious shit. They basically beg for any help.

I try to get in contact with shitter. Spoiler alert he doesn’t come back to his desk until 1pm. Says he took a “break”. For two hours? During a production outage? During YOUR production outage? I’ve never even imagined such audacity.

Minutes after customer contacts us at 11, I personally take over the problem ticket. Apologize for all the bullshit and all that. Again, shitter doesn’t even know this is happening because he’s in the middle of his “break”…

Get the problem solved in 20 minutes (it was a fucking simplistic buffer overflow). Even got emergency testing from QA performed. Deployed in 1.5 hours from start to finish. Again again, this is SHITTER’S code, not mine. And he’s a level above me.

There’s still the performance issue to contend with. But the production outage is solved.

By the end of the day I had performance back to the usual numbers. Handed off to QA for expedited but not emergency testing. Deployed by next day COB.

Best part? Even with 4-5 emails from me giving updates and everything, customer never replied. I called them once I solved prod issue. Had a small convo.

My boss and director both OOO for the holidays.

So, completely thankless. Oh well.

To make it better: I saw him on Indeed today. He wasn’t even searching for developer jobs. I think he finally realized this job is not for him. Unfortunately changing jobs won’t change the fact that he’s lazy and is a liar.

Fortunately, that’s the next guys problem. I’m recommending my boss fire him when boss gets back from vacation. Can’t wait.