noooo you must attend the after work drinks, we're like a family! we're all going go-karting and attendance is mandatory!

@meraklis oh effort estimates, i see. in my team, devs estimate the dev work and QA estimate the QA work, and then we add it together.

what do you mean by point stories?

@aviophille yeah "death to the whites" is totally anti-racist. not about to debate politics with some 20 year old on a programming app but i'm glad you're out of the country too.

thats a lot of racism you just did during your rant complaining about racism. i think i'd prefer it if you stayed out of the country tbh.

that actually sounds quite nice. but yeah, probably. i'd hear them out.

@aviophille somewhat frequently when i can't remember the exact syntax for reading a file or something like that i'll google it and end up on SO to see an example. it's never actually useful in a situation where i genuinely need help though.

it's objectively a bad choice, but very very normal. 100% of the places i've ever worked at deliberately do this while simultaneously lamenting that there's no documentation for any of their code. what can you do, people are stupid.

its better than azure devops

porn

@TheBeardedOne yeah that sounds like most places i've worked at too, i don't know about everybody else but i just can't handle that sort of environment long term. my advice would be to always be looking for the next job until you find a place you can tolerate. maybe give each place a few months to make sure you have an accurate picture of what it's like to work there, but life is way too short to spend the majority of it stressing about a bullshit job that you don't even like imo

@TheBeardedOne absolutely, almost every time! the people are usually nice enough but then over time i generally start to realise that the culture is just draining for me and i start spending the evenings dreading the next day

@TheBeardedOne yeah i've had exactly one good employer in all my years of working, they're really rare. but when you do find one, you'll be annoyed that you wasted so much time with the shitty ones.

gotta love the beauty of nature 🥰

microsoft in a nutshell

you should leave

if the job is marketing or something, maybe. if the job is programming, i want the most competent programmer because computers are the same regardless of gender or skin colour.

@iceb in my experience it causes a hell of a lot of problems in the workplace, especially for developers where hopping companies every couple of years is the norm. like clockwork my managers start getting complaints from other staff members about me within the first few months of starting any new job, and then they slow down and eventually stop over the course of about a year when everybody realises that i'm not trying to be a dick and that i'm actually just quiet and bad at communicating.

@kiki nice, i emphatically agree with every one of those points except #3. people who insist on doing/using convoluted bullshit make me absolutely seethe, and i work in C# .NET land, so i seethe a lot 😔

you can't, you unfortunately are just living on hard mode and there isn't really anything you can do about it.

i would be interested to hear more about the architecture approach you mentioned

you do realise that you will have other different jobs in the future? i work 8am-4pm fully remote, leaving me with 6-7 free hours every day, you can too. maybe not right now, but the opportunities are out there.

don't

i think a better question is why is it connected to the internet at all

@Isirant why would you assume it was anything to do with lgbtq?

it's normal. i've been a dev for nearly 10 years now and that feeling just never went away. we aren't designed to live like this and no amount of breaks or coping mechanisms will ever make it any less miserable. all you can do is submit to it and stop looking for a solution, that somehow helps in a sick sort of way.

the magic mouse is clearly a prank. i'm a mac user myself but there literally isn't a single valid reason to ever use one of those things, they're awful.

i don't mind using it too much but holy fuck the cpu usage. i work at a company that insists on pair programming via teams whenever possible which means that my cpu is totally maxed the entire time my screen is shared, cutting my productivity down by probably about 60%.

you could play dumb and ask what they mean when they say "regression", then ask if there's anything they need help with since the QA tickets are barely moving for the past month. pick some examples of the test cases you mentioned and ask if they ran into issues since it took [x days].

either they'll have a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything or it'll be very clear to everybody in the standup that they've been doing fuck all.

ef is a shit solution in search of a problem, shoehorning it into projects just because a manager read about it on the internet does absolutely nothing useful and makes everything a fucking nightmare to work on.