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@AmyShackles Definitely. Resume is coming together, linkedin is updated, looking around for local meetups to network. I’m outa here
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This is a classic move. They know you are proficient but can't promote you and they want an upper hand so they bring you down. Otherwise how will they justify paying higher or equivalent salary to the other teams or more senior people than you? It's good you're leaving because you have hit the glass ceiling at this place.
I hope that management gets rabies for how they have treated you.
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Also, I sort of hope you find a better place but I am going to miss your rants if that happens. -
@anux No worries! I’ve got a backlog of about 50. I’m trying not to flood this platform but there’s plenty left to share even once I’ve jumped ship.
Plus I’m pretty prickly, I’m sure I’ll find something to bitch about no matter where I end up. Although I hope it’s less flabbergasting than this hell hole. -
@boombodies yeah man. I hope you find a better place.
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@TheCommoner282 Appreciate the support, I’m starting to apply to other jobs. Honestly I’m not really sure what my abilities are even worth. I fluked into this job by starting to write code in an unrelated role and when my job became 90% code this position was made for me. It was a really fun gig up until the last 6 months or so. I’ve never applied to work in this field before so I have to do a complete rework of my resume to be more developer focused/get my portfolio together/prep for a technical interview. It’s a work in progress but its coming together.
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@TheCommoner282 right? I get so much second hand rage from @boombodies rants. Although a few of them are, at the cost of sounding insensitive, hilarious. Like their manager reviewing code.🤣
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@anux No worries, in life you can either laugh or cry about the shit you go through.
I prefer laughter. Pure maniacal laughter. -
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@sleazyboi Working on it. What’s the best method to search in your experience? Going through an agency? Applying directly? Recruiter?
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@boombodies set your LinkedIn to looking for opportunities, and really just start applying. I get about 4 messages a week and only have 2 years of experience.
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@sleazyboi Sick I’m sitting on 2 years experience myself. Take me to Valhalla! Thanks for letting me know about the “open to opportunities” feature. I missed that when I was updating my LinkedIn.
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@boombodies no problem pal. You might also be able to use ripplematch. I used them when I first got out of college. It's like tinder for dev jobs basically.
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@sleazyboi I really appreciate it! Never heard of that service before, I’ll have to give it a try.
Excited at the potential to get some actual return on investment on all these skills I’ve picked up over the years. My current employer couldn’t give two shits about new things I learn and have taken me aside multiple times to tell me my goals need to be more focused on the business instead of my skill development. Hopefully I’ll be able to tap into a vein of places where competency tracks pay a little closer. -
@boombodies OOOOF major 🚩 man you'll be much better off gone from that company. Try to look for places that are cloud native and doing stuff at a tech stack that's modern.
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your requirements were stable enough to be changed?
mine are usually in constant flux, including "the thing is implemented"
"wait, this is how the thing behaves when implemented? that's stupid"
"yeah i've been telling you and asking about it for the past two months"
"anyways, the thing should work like this, we decided based on the implementation we just saw? why doesn't the thing work like this? why are you late again?"
Senior Management: We are severely disappointed in the timeliness of the two apps you built this year. You had budgeted 3 months for one and it took 4 months and the other was budgeted to take 4 months and took 5 months. We understand that we doubled the requirements halfway through and but that doesn’t take away from our need for you to deliver on time. We provided you with two extra devs on the project! We know they were novices and you had to train them from the ground up during the project, that doesn’t matter. The extra resources should have helped you but your lack of leadership ability is what caused them to hold you back. We know our other team with a budget of 6 months took 2 years on their project and was still unsuccessful but that is a different scenario! That was a pre-built 3rd party ERP plugin, way more complicated and nuanced than simply building and deploying something from scratch. Yes we’re aware your projects were the only successful tech projects at the company this year, that’s just luck and coincidence. The next app we need you to build in 6 months, no questions asked. It needs to consolidate and tie together our 3 different ERPs. Everything that we need out of these products that they don’t do out of the box we need you to wire up. We will decide the exact requirements in a month or so, for now just get started. Yes your apps changed the way we do business and allowed us to complete projects smoother than ever before while saving millions of dollars in wasteful and archaic processes that is OLD NEWS. Stop bringing it up. The successes of yesterday are the status quo of today. Don’t expect any new resources either, you clearly can’t handle them. You will now be giving status updates to 3 different managers as a corrective action to your missed deadlines in order to ensure the timeliness of future deliverables.
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