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						AboutI'm a software engineer.
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						SkillsJava, Groovy, Misunderstanding.
 
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				    Has anyone ever worked anywhere that actually had complete user stories to work on? Every job I've had requires me to ask clarifying questions for almost every part of a ticket before I work on it. I wonder how nice a job could be if acceptance criteria and expectations were known before a ticket was assigned.6
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				    Spilled juice on my desk. Now everything "feels sticky". I quote that because nothing is actually sticky, but I was so upset that now I think I feel sticky when I don't. I keep checking my fingers after typing or anything. Never having juice in my office again...5
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				    How can one phrase things in a way that they won't be ignored? As in how to ask questions that will lead to actual answers and a path forward instead of being ignored or dismissed as "not enough"? Too frequently everywhere I work I've experienced the pattern that I'll be close to identifying a problem/solution but my mentions are often dismissed, and then months later when things are really bad someone else, usually a manager or higher ranking engineer, says the same exact thing and it is suddenly this huge revelation. Of course I can share links to previous meetings about the topic where I tried suggesting whatever this is, but it again goes ignored as "contextually invalid" or something similar.
Is this normal? Do I just need to wait until I'm a higher ranking engineer to earn this respect of opinions?4 - 
				    
				    Isn't it awesome when someone's "bugfix" causes new bugs which prompt "bugfixes" for the bugfixes in the same merge request?5
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				    How do you help coworkers that gaslight you about their understanding and skills? If they outright refuse help, yet their work is consistently low quality and unacceptable?7
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				    100 new lines of code. 6 of them are new, the rest are tests. 30 comments and 100 commits later, changed code still not getting touched by tests. Who tests mocks?4
 
