Manager: How’s the progress coming along?

Dev: The section of code I’m working with is one of the more difficult ones so it’s a little slow

Manager: Ok well I didn’t write that section of the code

Dev: I’m not saying you did I’m just giving you the status update that you asked for

Manager: Ok well I can’t really do anything about that so how about you tell me something I can do something about instead of just complaining about code THAT I DIDN’T EVEN WRITE!! *Marks self as offline*

Dev: …

How do you find them?
Local small dev shops or high profile large businesses?

Lol, pretty big difference between "gib status update" and "what can I do to help". Getting angry with you for responding to what they said instead of what they meant...

What an idiot.

uuuhh.. what? Is he high or something?

Yup. The problem with IT is the people in it

Acceptance is a kind of doing.

It's probably because someone pissed in his coffee that morning or someone hurt his ego otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@anux I’ve only ever had this one dev job. It’s at a very large family owned company. “Manager” in my posts is any one of the 5+ people I report/have reported to over the years. Tech illiteracy/incompetent management is especially prevalent here due to the business insisting on hiring friends/family instead of based on merit so you end up bearing witness to quite a lot of very absurd behaviour from all of the inbreeding of ideas/attitudes in a company that hires using this strategy.

If you have a family member who is unemployed this business will hire them no questions asked. I got my brother a job here due to this even though I knew he was going to drive them crazy and he proceeded to be an absolute pain in their ass for 2 years before finally being fired. They do get a lot of retention this way though since if you weren’t hired based on merit you’re likely not very employable and they never have to worry about you leaving.

@boombodies I'm sorry to hear that.

Flood the job boards, something will come up eventually.

Wow. What a baby. How is this emotionally unstable person a manager?