Has technology gone too far?

"the possibilities are endless" 😂

@halfflat I know what you mean.. I have only a 40 minute commute but I can be at 80% energy after work ends and the moment I sit down in the train I am DRAINED

@halfflat but the Swiss mountains...

I actually wanted to apply in Switzerland too, but kept putting it off.

Why don't you live over the border as a frontalier? Would save you a lot of money

@LinusCDE holy shit I love you

Another great benefit that is often overlooked:

- thanks to the headaches and stress you get to live less which means you get to be a dev for less long and thus suffer less long

I have a colleague who is similar to what you said you used to be.

The guy is not a developer and doesn't even know how to code well, started with a tiny bit of experience with python.

But if you give the guy a complex task, he will do research, make amazing notes that could actually be used to teach people, then works through the problem bit by bit.

Another colleague reviewed his code later and said it's "shit" and while I don't deny it could be improved by a lot efficiency and code quality wise, I can guarantee you that the shit talking employee could never have written this package himself.

Sad part is he doesn't code anymore and instead writes design documents..

Despite knowing all the theory, algorithms, conventions and able to make things efficient, some people are just not inherent problem solvers. It can be learned to some extent but there are people to whom it is just natural and maybe you are one of those people

What is it exactly? What kind of camera?

Oh my God. How do you deal with your non technical scrum master?
Mine drives me up the wall and I just have no way to deal with them whatsoever!!!!

Does yours also say 10 sentences worth of words, when they can easily say it in 15 words or less in detail???

"I tried to register an account and I got this error could you check what's wrong and maybe fix it if you have time? If you don't have time it's OK but I just get this error when I try to register and so I can't make an account so it's kind of important so if you have time please take a look okay because i think it doesnt work properly and nobody will be able to make an account. But maybe if it's not too difficult how long would this take to fix? Will you be able to fix it today? Because I can't make an account"

maybe triple this.

BTW the error? An unformatted error with codes and stuff and in the middle of it, in ALL CAPS, "EMAIL ALREADY EXISTS"

AND I TOLD HER THIS 3 FUCKING TIMES BEFORE. YOUR ACCOUNT ALREADY EXISTS FFUCK

It's time to retire and buy a sailing boat

@devphobe loved your story. Your wife seems cool.

Mine is cool as heck too but she doesn't care about anything dev related so that's minus cool points right there 😡

@Demolishun huh. I am going to try this. Thanks Demo!

@Demolishun no scripting.

Concepts as recipes how? How do you introduce for example a loop as a recipe?

@Demolishun haha yes she does cook. Masters in economics/accounting. Why?

@C0D4 sounds like you had something similar to what I have now..

How did you go about getting paid much more at your job? I read a bunch of articles about negotiation and think I have it down somewhat. And can back it up with work as well

But it seems also that your raises depend a lot on your starting salary at your company (ie you have to set standards high from the very beginning, so they don't get used to low balling you)

@C0D4 not really. I haven't negotiated yet but it seems my recruiter is trying to avoid letting me negotiate? Is that possible and if so, why?

The company just seems really cool and the team as well. Lots of difficult fun stuff to do and more stuff to learn.

My current company is a complete mess and my colleagues make the place almost unbearable..

@C0D4 it's 34% tax in Sweden. 17% in Luxembourg. I meant that if I took this job at 66k, despite the higher gross salary, I would end up with 9% less money after taxes (net salary)

I know what you mean though.. In the countries around Luxembourg, taxes go as high as 54% 😜 imagine giving half your salary away...

@SortOfTested I just really want to advance in my career. Eg make more money and be happy with my job and learn more (to become more valuable and make more money I guess)

@SortOfTested quality of life.. I think objectively it's worse to take the job. Sweden is really nice and there's a lot of nature and pretty winters and things like that, but I am in Luxembourg right now.
I have all the same comforts plus I'm in the center of Europe, pay very little tax, have any type of vacation destination relatively close by.

Luxembourg is a good place to be. Highest gdp in the world, takes care of its employees and citizens and an amazing place to build connections and do something in life.

@N00bPancakes no the tech and potential for technical skill growth is great.

It's purely financial. I'd like to do well financially and go upwards, not downwards

@Oktokolo far from perfect, unfortunately. Very far... That's why I'm looking to leave.

See my other rants if you want a tiny glimpse into what's happening at this company

@N00bPancakes thanks Pancakes. I'll keep that in mind :)

@N00bPancakes what if the manager is just one of the people being manipulated, though? What if they have favorites because they have a bad impression of someone because of gaslighting or something? How do you solve such a problem?

@Root thanks Root. You are absolutely right.

I know for a fact that my 2 colleagues can not handle my workload. I am by no means an expert dev, but I'm pretty good at what I do, and my boss gives me the complex tasks because he knows I won't find an excuse on why it's not possible in 2 weeks.

I'm actually worried about leaving and leaving them stuck with everything. Even if I don't like THOSE colleagues, the effect will cascade and affect others as well.

Mainly I feel bad for my boss. I learned a lot thanks to him and I know that if he is acting against me, it's because he's been manipulated. I don't wish him ill at all

@valkn0t thanks for the tip. I'll get right on that

@Hazarth thanks man, I appreciate your perspective. Part of me believes there's a good solution in this problem, but 90% of me believes that solution is leaving the company :(

@Hazarth I told him that I have a roadplan with career goals for myself and that I want to reach a certain salary in 5 yrs (roughly 12-14% increase every year) which he ignored and HR instead told me "10% raises are unheard of". I didn't bother arguing too much since its such an uncomfortable situation.

So I tell him I want to leave, he asks about my offer and I tell him (it's 70k pounds - 77k eur +10% bonus and stock options - vs 50k eur that I currently make)
And he tells me I have a planned surprise raise in May to 65k which I apparently knew about. This number was my roadplan to my 5yr target but it was never agreed by him or acknowledged whatsoever.

He then said that we can do 61k in January and doesn't acknowledge me wanting to leave.

@Hazarth I brought up that I want to leave after all the bs a while ago and he asked me if I was offered a job and what I was offered.
I told him i was offered 70k pounds and he then said that during my performance review we agreed that I would get 65k in May 2021.

We didn't.

I asked for 56k back then in June and he said he will see what he can do and then gave me 50k instead and said "we have a company policy not to give more than 5%". And that depending on if I meet new milestones I might get another 5% "or more" in January. Which would put me at 52500.

This is by the way right after 3-4 months of me working 12-16 hours a day including weekends to meet deadlines and being the only one in the backend team that cared enough to do push myself that hard.

Cont

@Hazarth I'm honestly surprised you're trying to give me advice on how to resolve this, rather than tell me "time to find a new job" like everybody else :)

@Hazarth we had a talk like this a few months ago. After HR took this stuff seriously they talked to us individually and told us to stop the drama or there will be repercussions.
I approached them afterwards and started the conversation. We opened up a lot about what we felt and agreed that neither of us intended anything bad. Even apologized to each other.. I genuinely thought everything was good again but I think that was just me being naive.

I started looking at other jobs recently and even got offers but rejected them. The gf motivated me and kept asking about my progress so I kept her up to date (thought we're cool). She knows I want to leave and that I'm unhappy. She then told me not to take new tasks if I'm leaving and I believe she took that to my manager and boss because they suddenly stopped giving me new complex tasks and instead I'm doing maintenance work and writing tests.

Btw, I'm not actually a senior in this company so we're basically equal

@Hazarth like "it's not fair I'm treated like a junior dev" despite actually being a junior, making mistakes in the master branch, and on top being new to the company and still in the process of onboarding.

Things went south really fast after that 🥴

Honestly I'm not sure if there is anything I can do. I've tried many times to approach them nicely and try to make friends and it seemed like it worked but the shit behind my back continues so I assume they're just putting on a fake smile (at least the gf. The bf doesn't even bother)

I really feel like this negatively impacts my relationship with the upper management of the company (it's a start up BTW) and since it's pretty much 3 vs 1, I'm not on the winning side

I used to love working here so much....