I’m so fucking sick and tired of !devs telling me how simple a feature should be to implement.

Like motherfucker the most complicated thing you’ve ever done with a computer is attempt (and fail) at working with tables in Microsoft Word and you’re trying to tell me how long a new feature/K8s architecture/noSQL aggregation should take to implement?

A monitor cable wiggling loose paralyses you for hours but I’m supposed to bow down to your understanding of what is causing a bug?

You know what? Challenge accepted! 3 days lunch says I can deliver this feature faster than you! I don't care that you're not a dev, If you can't compete then stop trash-talking.

I've been there before. Thankfully, not in an environment like that now.

In one case, PM demanded something be defined in 30 minutes. I was so pissed, I had to go to the gym (remote job). That PM got fired in a few weeks, but it was still a hellhole. One thing I learned is don't flip your shit... I did that. Just calmly set firm boundaries and insist on sizing work. If they continue to violate those boundaries, create and execute an exit plan.

@WiseViper I really appreciate the advice. Cheers!

To be fair, tables in Word are a nightmare though.

@koes managerRant is leaking /s

During my time at the university I was working in a supposed "AI" company ( they did zero with AI, but it was the selling point at the time, like "Blockchain" a couple years later).

It was always a shitshow. Once I created an entirely new large application feature in the morning, because the CEO promised it to some customer in the afternoon.

Due to things like that the codebase was crap. Unmaintainable. All spaghetti.

So I left shortly before starting my Master's thesis. They weren't happy, because they were hoping to keep me full time after my thesis and I should be thankful since this is my first real dev job and all (which it wasn't).
They also stated their offer, to show me what I miss out on - it was 35k.

The reason this was even more laughable was because at that time I had already signed a contract at almost double that pay.