year 2 in company, $1200 increament, no senior dev promotion, still stuck at same tax bracket that i was for last 3 years. work environment getting more toxic everyday, and no wfh jobs for Android devs out there.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I am in the same situation as you ☺️

ew measuring freedom units in tax brackets

that's depressing

Sounds familiar.

I’ve been at the same hellish job for five years. 3% (max) raise per year. No promotions, despite watching countless morons get praised and promoted. They hired me as a senior, but didn’t use titles at the time; when HR phased titles in, they apparently never got around to me despite verbal promises from management, so I defaulted to “software engineer.”

Anyway. Over the past three years, my assigned projects have been less and less interesting, to the point I’m now working on basically janitorial crap. I don’t get to fix anything, just clean up the messes, and make the messes faster. “Nothing else is available” they say. Uh-huh.

Juniors (ostensibly seniors by their titles) get to extend my previous projects, and they copy/paste my code and add little bits to it, replete with typos and riddled with performance problems.

And the above saps all of my energy, leaving nothing left for escaping. It’s hell.

@Root that's kind of weird

I'd be sus if someone wanted something out of you then because you said no they put you in the closet company-wise

happened to me once when a manager wanted to sleep/get with me and I kept ignoring him... eventually he got a girlfriend and suddenly I was thrown out like yesterday's trash. management stopped being interested in me, and he had all their ear (and I later found out did passive aggressive things to other men at work by whispering things to management)

@jestdotty Yes, there was some drama and the guy in question trashtalked me to a lot of people — my manager, other managers, my coworkers, random other people in the company, execs, etc. He also refused to say even a word to me after, which was awkward as hell because he was the product owner I was working for. He later left the company, and while it was smoothed over and hushed quite a bit, he apparently didn’t leave on good terms. But this was years ago, and my decline in company popularity continued. I mean, once the damage is done there’s no real fixing it, especially if the people in question haven’t interacted with you before.

I hope he gets robbed and shanked in his villa.

@Root ahhh ok

also that's weird. I don't really know how people operate. they seem to be asleep and don't adapt well to anything I guess

sucks. yeah maybe it just sort of set you on a path like a pool ball and nothing ever rolled the other way or something

seems rather heartless though. they can fire him but they can't fix his damage lol

@jestdotty tax bracket was a convenient way to indicate my frustration without telling my salary. if you ever got good increments, you must have moved to different brackets.