@retoor yes, our company sells only 1 service via different products. That server is responsible for the service that users wants to use our system.

Our API, database, ... is still working but users do not care about this if the key functionality is now breaking.

Compare it to a messaging app. you can see all chat history & all contacts but cannot send or receive messages. Users would be very unhappy.

@AlgoRythm yes, he was holding the phone.

Shoving a grandma to the ground (and potentially causing some damage to her) and stealing her purse would be a less severe punishment

@cafecortado it is planned at 16:00. What an odd time

@lorentz he is a consultant at that company so different rules fot sure

@retoor I think the main target of "AI friends" will be the lonely introverts than extroverts. There is real loneliness epidemic going on and a lot of (younger) people crave social contact or something that looks like it.

@retoor Yes, even had to troubleshoot some issue at a customer. Stupid hardware acceleration :D

i need a different job but there are no job openings nearby :(

@iiii Pretty much sums up this planning the past year... At least we have a planning now compared to the last 2 "scrum masters"

Also, what retarded company decides for 3 app deployments on friday afternoon and have no one on standby for the weekend to fix potential problems 🤡

@gto3000 They did not move to our country. They are working abroad (Other European country & somewhere in Africa). Our "company language" is English which is not one of the national language of my country. Nearly all data we have is from one of our national languages.

@retoor Thank you, forwarded it to my colleagues

@Demolishun Indeed, Dutch is so bad but Flemish is so much better

@retoor Alright, let me know. Maybe we can also investigate it or have already investigated that one.

@atheist How long do you expect till the decision backfires for the company?

@retoor Well, the language is Dutch but from Belgium. A lot of people here speak in a dialect that the LLM struggles with.

Except for the Antwerp dialect, that one gets handled surprisingly well. I guess the Dutch accent is a bit better? They are checking different modals cuz the prices remain too high to make commercial sense.

Also, GDPR is not accounted for so far.

@Piniuze It's not my job to keep them. We got a new marketing person a few months later and that guy quit last week (not joking). I think he was here for around 6 or 8 months. Unsure...

At this point, it's just funny and I cannot wrap my head around how my company can stay afloat.

@jestdotty Today, we have a normal workshop & 4 hours of my boss copying motivational guru Tony Robbins.

He does a session like once every 3 months where he copies a speach of him since I started nearly 4 years ago.

To be fair, the activity was not that bad except we had no place to wash our hands after. They decided on sandwiches (without plates) with our dirty hands and now i have stomach today :')

Also was fun to see our spanish & kenyan colleagues suffer from freezing temperatures outside temperatures

To be fair, his flight got cancelled. He will arrive tomorrow. We are not racist

@retoor So far in my 4 years of working there, we had one work trip that was more for fun than work. We had a very exceptional year so the owners paid for a 3-day holiday to Croatia for all 30-ish employees (same city as one of our devs). But that ended up more expensive than they expected & ended up with drama between the C-levels & managers.

So for my ex-CTO went with an other Belgian developer to croatia multiple times that I was not invited to. My current manager already went once to Spain that I was also not invited to.

Hard to say if I would like a work holiday but I would love to move to a different country for a few years. I guess I would like it.

@retoor Belgian. They are from Croatia (2), Italy, Spain & Kenya.

Sadly their b&b is a bit too far (+ too far from the old city) for giving them bikes but we have 2 company cars that they can. We have 2 more on our parking but they have a major problem with mold. I'll upload pictures later after I can be bothered to blur out the company logo on it :D

I've met 3 out of the 5 already. It was fun the last time. But we got a new manager that wants to make it a lot more coorporate/organised. Our previous CTO was less professional and it evolved into a drinking party most of the time & we barely worked haha

Now the manager wants to make it a lot more efficient with multiple workshops, prototyping and we even have a teambuilding with horses. I'm not really looking forward to that tbh.

So yeah... I just have no idea how to prepare for it when I don't even know the time limitation.

@Lensflare Oh, 3h is painful. Mine is only 1h - 90 min.

At least my workplace introduced an exception for anyone that lives more than 60min away (one-way). And for the sales & technicians.

So like more than the half of our employees have an exception.

@Lensflare Nah, it's because the CEO is mindlessly following trends from big companies like amazon.

They are forcing people to go back to the office so now my CEO copied it. He ignores the reasons why the big companies are doing it.

@retoor To be fair, The person who was fired was hired during Covid and her work can be done fully remotely. She promised that it would not be a problem and it was the reason she chose for this company (the salary aint great)

And yes, they had problems with her and I believe this was just an excuse to fire her legally.

@AlgoRythm Unsure, that is what the COO told us. He got that email forwarded so not sure if he was exaggerating or really the case (hashed or not). Maybe the password manager was compromised or an exploit was found to bypass the authentication. IDK at this point. They have not yet made a public statement.

@antigermanist We have also detected hacking attempts earlier this week but my colleagues have determined that their attempt was not successfull.

Since we are a direct competitor of them, i assume they have been hacked by the same party and on a very similar way like they attacked us.

@antigermanist Their product does not use HTTP or HTTPS but a whole different protocol. I'm not sure how their authentication is done for their devices. Maybe their admin platform that probably uses HTTPS has been hacked. I have no idea about how it happened (yet).

@PappyHans For sure. It's an EU company and not a multinational. I hope they play by the rules.

@retoor There are enough red flags but my position as a front-end developer was never really affected that much. Hence why i sticked around and this is my first job so I thought it might look better to my future employees to be here for 3 or 3+ years.

Then there are so many red flags in the sales department, technicians, support, finance, ... Logistics / admin department has no drama yet.

It honestly feels more that I'm a background character for a sitcom. I have no idea how this company is making a profit each year. It baffles me.

@wojtek322

One coworker was extremely competent but he acted careless (which his work was not) and was very extroverted. The COO disliked him & fired him when he was on holiday (and called him during his holiday & ruining his holiday)

Other colleague was fired by the same COO because she was disliked because she did not meet the deadline. The deadline was not her issue but very unrealistic. it was a major rewrite of our apps logic, not something you can do in a month but 4 months at least. She went on holiday and was fired after she came back.

The other colleague was this one: https://devrant.com/rants/6445422/...

@retoor

financial reasons: 1

Left on his own accord: 5

bullied: 3

Left because else left: 4

Left because the CEO: 3

fired for incompetence: 7

Too junior / financial reasons: 2

Stopped showing up: 2

I forgot about 3 ex-colleagues hahaha