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The usual firefighter position. Same here.
Sometimes it's frustrating to always do things you don't know anything about it, but it's diversified and doesn't become boring.
And @Irene is right, the bus factor is horrible. But who cares, it's not your decision. -
@irene its no longer a bus, a ship would be closer.
@AlmondSauce true that. But when one of those bus's is a bit more specialised they kind of needed to bend a bit.
@ddephor I've made sure they are aware of the bus issue, but they don't seem to be bothered... *touches wood* -
As one smart man once told: "Senior in front of job title saves me 20% of employee salary". As sad it is - he is right - we are often driven by prestige and most of us will comply. If you look around there us bunch of "managers, seniors, vice presidents" etc who are complete idiots earning a lot less than you would expect.
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@netikras That doesn't help.
Every time I go on vacation, I think someone may deal with the urgent tasks and the sudden issues.
Then I come back and all I see are mails stating that some issue has to wait until I'm back.
And it's not that no one could do the job, all others are just to busy to familiarize with the situation, so it wouldn't be faster anyway.
Promotions? What are those.
Every title I have gained has been out of necessity of needing someone to work on stack "X".
It usually goes something like:
Dev: I quit
Management: oh shit, we need another dev 🤔oh @C0D4 can do it until we find a replacement.
@C0D4: fuck, I don't know anything about this stack.
Management: we didn't find a replacement, this thing is yours now, here's a pay bump for your efforts.
@C0D4: I swear they'll regret all these projects being managed by a single dev 1 day.
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