Damn, sometimes I want to rant about something rather badly, but feel I can't as I'd inevitably mention something way to specific which would identify me way too easily 🕵️‍♂️

I'll just say talking to our offshore dev team really does feel like talking to a brick wall 😒

I know the feeling. Thankfully the kool-aid man is my spirit animal.

@rutee07 Oh, I'm sure the offshore team probably feels the same way about me at this point 😂

Conversations generally go thus:

Offshore guy: I think we should do X, that will stop hypothetical situation Y from happening

Almond: Good idea, but that's not really the priority now - A is really the priority we should be working on (yaknow, the one marked as high priority in Jira, fully fleshed out with estimates, ready to go, etc.) - let's add X to the backlog.

Offshore guy: Would you like a deeper explanation of X? It would be very good to do it. It would solve problems.

Almond: Oh, I totally understand what X would do. It's just a large piece of work that's not a priority right now. As I said earlier, we really need to....

Offshore guy: ...It is important though. Shall we prepare a presentation for you next week of why X would be a good idea?

Other offshore guy: Almond, what we're trying to do with X is (literally says what first guy said...)

Because talking to an offshore team is almost always the same as talking to a brick wall.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy my offshore team as humans - they’re nice people.

I’ve explained things to them so many times that I honestly can’t wrap my head around other ways to explain it, eventually they get exasperated as well and just start saying they understand even when they don’t.

Then i review their code, reject it, and repeat the process over again.

@rutee07 Time will tell, but I suspect you're right on the money there.