TIL a promotion == doing more things that I hate, and less things that I love

Career is over lol

I'm so bored I'm tempted to look for a more stressful job that pays less o.o

Almost got caught taking taking a nap haha

Lately I've been taking it easy since the work I've been doing has been super easy and boring.

So I was just lying in bed watching some youtube video.

When it ended I decided it might be a good time to check my laptop and see if there was a message.

Sure enough, I WAS FIVE MINUTES LATE TO A MEETING!

When I joined, there was only one person. It was a bit hard to tell if he just didn't quit the meeting since I was expecting another person on the call haha.

Then I checked the invite list. Oh, he declined.

Oh shit. My manager was supposed to be on the call too.

Upon further inspection. He said he was 15 minutes late.

So he didn't catch me slacking off haha.

Otherwise I'd for sure miss the "you coming?" message since I turned off slack notifications on my phone and he'd think I take off an hour on fridays regularly.

Not easy to slack off, haha

I joined after this event but kept hearing small bits of this story from different people.

It involved a (I think secretary), a senior executive, his wife, and a hot tub at a Christmas party.

Used my imagination to fill in the rest.

Anyone worked with me is on devrant? 🤪

what kind of lame bachelor party doesn't involve doing leetcode questions with your buddies 😀

python + rename == nightmare.

I cannot be fully confident every rename is safe. Because there's no compiler check to tell me o.o

Unpopular opinion: reading a doc != training. How is this different from reading medium and stackoverflow

why do I get stressed even though I don't care if I got laid off?

Something isn't right with me lol

retire. lol

Then I actually have the energy to build the stuff I want to build. and for fun

Working at a big-ish tech is like a completely different world.

Do we even speak the same words?

Why can't you say agree like a normal person. Who the frig made "++" a real life word (is it a verb/noun? wtf is it)

and then all those other acronyms like OKR, P1,p2,p3

Who talks like that?

Been browsing job postings for a year and just can't find a company I'd like to work for

They are either evil, or x-washing and doesn't actually solve the problem they claim to solve

When I'm at a medium sized company: Let's get CI/CD so we can build things and release things fast and stress free.

Now working at a big company. We have all the CI/CD we can ask for. Why are things still so slow and stressful o.o

Asked to make high level estimates for something that has no scope.

Manager keeps asking to trim down the estimates. o.o

Where is this economic + social collapse that was promised?

%@&$4727;&2@@(&@&

Dang. I feel like I'm just not cut out to climb any ladder.

When we discovered a production bug. I feel bad about making people working on that part look bad by not catching it.

My manager has no issue with pointing out that I should have caught it. Beating a horse while it's down.

I mean no shit. Of course I know I should've caught it. How does making me feel worse about it help.

Feels like I'll always be in a tough spot no matter where I am on the ladder.

Or I'm just fragile. I acknowledge that, too

Wow. so many dumbass posts on LinkedIn talking about things they have no idea about!

Want to call it out. But don't want to give them additional traffic lol

One other thing I hate about the popularity of async comm in corps.
After reading so much async comm. I have no energy to read for fun on the weekend o.o

General Dynamics make nimble robots that flip and dance. I can barely make my figurine stand o.o

lol. accidentally used my reward points on company expenses lunch

Let's be honest here. With all the ranting we do. Is there such a thing as a company/team we'd enjoy working with? lol

Anyone else think the emphasis on scaling is misplaced?

I think we can have more innovative products that solve real problems in specific ways if people focused on solving specific problems rather than targeting wider audience in attempt to sell to as many as possible.

How are Macs preferred for web dev? You can't even easily switch between chrome and the inspector tab.

I had a job where the CEO/founder regularly yells at people and punches the wall.

During citywide rollout. He and a few other people went out to buy power inverters so they can power up my PC using someone's car

gah. when I say I like doing documentation, I don't mean gantt chart, test cases, status update, rollout plans and newsletters

Agile can work really well with webapps. But does it work for mobile apps? Each iOS app release can take days if unlucky

Is it just me or do people sometimes do major refactoring not because it needs to, but purely because they are inheriting old code and can't be bothered to understand it

Googling why X sucks is always better research than googling why use X

I love it! Ranting is so therapeutic!

why is async comm preferred over sync? Since when did people learn how to read?