I was super angry with my job last year, and one day in my desperation typed angry thoughts in Google and gave me a devrant rant as a result... And here I am

@Fast-Nop and mosquitoes, damn I hate those little shits

We had something like that in a company I worked in the past. But it wasn't two hours, the changes just didn't happened because the DBA was so busy he didn't ever have time for our requests, so we just made a local copy of the database without asking and problem solved. We weren't supposed to do that but that definitely was best for the company at the end.

I feel you all my friends, I truly do. Once I got my electricity cut for 4 days, and that's all the time, at least once a day, not to mention what is the internet like. Lucky for me I finally got myself out of that country a couple weeks ago.

Awesome!

@oreru yeah and not finding what I'm looking for among all those tabs it's what usually triggers the rampage until only the useful ones are left

@AI-Overlord thanks! I should complain more often haha

@irene lol I see... notice my 5 days delay, that's the time I've spent without electricity in my country (no one cares but I needed to complain somehow)

And well I believe that one single language is not enough for learning everything you need for programming. I learned basic programming and advanced techniques with C, object oriented with C++, web with amp stack and codeigniter (awful, I know), functional with Haskell, and every subject in college used a different language (because of teacher's choices) so in my career I ended using a lot of languages and at the moment that was exactly what every teacher needed to properly teach their subject.

@irene actually I learned (in college) programming with C, and even if it's not really passing by reference, it works for students to understand what reference passing is and later understand that it actually was a clever didactic lie, so I believe it can be a good language for learning and teaching.

I totally get you, you grow skills in backend because that's what you love and the idiots who decide what to get you doing think that changing colors is a great use for a skilled backend developer who by the way hates changing colors.

@smb26 well that would make sense if there was any contract lol, this is actually an informal remote job, and actually it's got a lot better by now.

But it's pretty useful to know that I can actually sue for being forced to do stuff out of my contract, I'll have it in mind for future contracts. Thanks a lot!

Yeah it happens to me a lot when trying too hard for too long to get something fixed, so to avoid it I try to get rests and get things clear in my mind before going to the code.

Hahahaha! Yeah right... They usually want changes even before you actually finish what they said at first and even ask to remove the features that you struggled the most to get to work

Yeah and this shit is so common, I got tired of my previous job because of that, it's like there are two types of employees, the ones that research and experiment and get things done, and the ones that just ask the others everything. So it happened in my team that every employee that got things done left the company, except for me, so my every day was like:
Someone: hey I got this error, come and see it.
Me: What's the error?
Someone: You have to see it.
Me: did you Google it?
Someone: just come.
Me: I can't right now.
* two minutes later *
Team leader: hey please go and check someone's error so he can keep working.

Plot twist: is the same fucking error I keep showing everyone how to easily fix it every fucking day! Why the fuck can't even one single person do something as elemental as learning some easy task they have to do every day?
Even in meetings they say "he is the one who's done that, I can't do this because he know and I don't, but he can do it"...

This was epic LOL

@Root hopefully, meanwhile I'm working on a escape haha

@Root I'm afraid it's not, here in my country that's what I can get in a local company, and it's not actually 40$, it's about that in our local currency, and we're currently in hyperinflation so next day those aren't 40$ anymore. The best paying company in my city offers about 400$ in the best scenario but you literally have to give your soul away. So the best we can do is to work freelance for employers abroad but as soon as they know we're from here they take advantage of our situation, so we've become the cheap slave workers.

That's great, congratulations!

A year ago, a friend of mine asked me to help a friend of hers getting her first job as a developer, so I did some talking in the company and got her a job there. We started spending time together and now she's here laying besides me, we live together and are planning a future for the both of us, we do have love in the developer's world.

Side stories:
- This friend of mine (the one that asked me the favor) we used to be very close friends for years, it turned she was a fake and spoke sh*t of me at my back, and my girlfriend and her were good friends as well (but she's the one that listened to that sh*t), now none of us talk to her anymore.

- I also had a good friend in the company, it turned she had a crush on me and stopped talking to me after I got my now girlfriend a job there.

I should write a book: "developer's love and betrayal stories"

A toast for asshole employers!

So may them be burned and thrown to a river :)

I once had a bad job, not that bad as yours but I really didn't want to keep going there, thing is, my project leader was actually the best, and I kind of owed him, so I decided to endure the bad job until the end of the project and then quited.
But I just wanted so much to have their project destroyed somehow so they never could profit from my excess of work... our monthly salary was about 40$, and in two years time a team of 7 people managed to build a whole bank system from scratch, which they were billing more than a million $ for, and as a reward for finishing it we got a 100$ note each of us, fuck them twice without lubrication...

So to sum up, please do destroy everything you can before leaving in the name of all of us developers who suffer from all of those bastards, and let us know :)

So yeah on really big projects I've seen the run output console turn green in intellij. Good thing is that it only has happened when there are actual errors in that output haha.

I really love these IDEs

@netikras ok this is useful, thanks!

About 10 years ago, there was this site "Peter answers", which can be used to prank others to make them think there's a ghost or something actually answering your questions but is in fact a trick.

So at high school a friend decided to scare me with that and I was like "cool! This actually let's you talk to a ghost" until this ghost said "now I'm angry with you, and I'm pulling your blankets tonight while you sleep!", and I spent the whole night freezing to death because I didn't cover myself afraid of the "ghost" pulling my blankets.

@arandilopez totally, I've seen it happen a couple times

This is something that have me thinking very often but haven't taken the time to analyze or research it properly...

What I can tell you is that when I left my first job, I had been there for more than two years, and I had been hating it for more than a year...
If you're not happy there, it's probably already time to leave.

@Yamakuzure lol I actually realized I kind of forget how to use a pen every time I find myself having to use one again...
I practically haven't written by hand in about three years since a finished my studies

@Hubot-0x58 sort of. She worked for about a month and the guy ran out of money (because of other projects) so decided to fire everyone (I also worked for him in another project)

Yes, what @filvia-sederici said is right, is not only to be honest and show you recognize your weaknesses, but to show that you actually work on them to improve yourself.

Sometimes no internet is a worse enemy...

You got power... But nothing to use it for...

@rutee07 hahaha the ghost feet, this is gold