Since my previous thread kinda-sorta turned into a soft megathread, and the tech layoffs will continue until morale improves, I think it's better to group them all together.
either your company really cares about being able to rollback micro-specific changes or your your tech lead is fucking autistic. That would annoy me too.
Sounds like the leadership might have poorly designed KPI's, using branch and source control activity as a measured metric of success, leading to autistic "do it all again" so it pads the numbers.
So there is more to it... Some of it is because the release process is new, some of it is because management is very hands on and particular about literally everything at a syntax/structure level. Some of it is because it's harder to CR whole files. Some of it is because I've been in the industry for too long but not this stack. Some of it is because I (like Null) am a manic dev and I like to shit out 20 hours of code and then go sleep for 2 days straight and the process forces me to 9-5. At the end of the day though I'm a prickly old man who values his autonomy in a world full of micro-managers.
The rant is essentially the same one I have been going on for like 10 years now. I think of myself like a clock maker or a luthier and like a clockmaker or luthier when Leo Fender comes in and turns your end to end labor of love into an assembly line full of checklists and oversight it kills the fun/soul of the thing. Going from one (admittedly shitty) factory to another (less shitty but even more proscriptive) factory and having to learn/adhere to all their processes is frustrating for me as an old salt... like part of what makes it enjoyable for me is deciding myself how I want to structure things, making my own conventions, my own tools and my own schedule. If I have to make the little coo-coo bird and make some little doors but it's Friday and I'm beat I will make the doors because they are templated and when someone comes in and says "no you have to make the bird right now because that ticket is slated for glue man first!" it's fucking annoying.
A family friend has a small company that has a job opening for a jack-of-all-trades IT guy. He's seeing a lot of resumes from people who worked at FAANG companies previously, for a job that clearly states the starting salary is 60k.
I told him they're either lying pajeets or they will be so hyper-specialized that they won't be of any help running a one-man IT department at a small business.
Gotta be lying pajeets or possibly the deadweight DEI hires who have zero idea about the world of tech. Your friends job is almost certainly a systems admin type position which basically has almost nothing to do with the jobs FAANG brocoders do.
But they are here, paying taxes here, buying stuff here, thus contributing to the economy. With this shit the money leaves the country and those workers will reinvest it in their own local economies.
Also the ones that have dual nationality can move back to their 3rd world countries to work from there with a much lower cost of living.
also you're acting like most tax dollars don't go to welfare bullshit at this point, most people rarely benefit from federal or state spending. i'd rather have one less car on the road or person waiting in line.
Gotta be lying pajeets or possibly the deadweight DEI hires who have zero idea about the world of tech. Your friends job is almost certainly a systems admin type position which basically has almost nothing to do with the jobs FAANG brocoders do.
Pretty much. Delta Integrale friend would be better off hiring a young kid with some SysAdmin certs (not even college, just some certs) or a ex-army IT guy. (That again, just has some certs).
On the one hand I like Roombas a lot, so that's not good. They're just so insanely overpriced is my main problem. On the second hand they all have cameras in them and you really don't want Amazon to have anything to do with that.
Gotta be lying pajeets or possibly the deadweight DEI hires who have zero idea about the world of tech. Your friends job is almost certainly a systems admin type position which basically has almost nothing to do with the jobs FAANG brocoders do.
Also I wouldn’t hire them because they’re probably looking at the job as a temporary thing to pay the bills and will leave as soon as they can. The cost of onboarding them isn’t worth it.
Oh no, they are - Just the biggest cost increases coming from payroll taxes, additional duties and obligations of the employer, etc. Its not unrealistic to be paying a third or more of an employees salary again just to the government to be allowed to have an employee at all.
Before the recent unpleasantness one of the first companies I remember that did work from home and then ended it was Yahoo! in 2013. So, yes, under performing companies do tend to do things like this in lieu of having better management.
Before the recent unpleasantness one of the first companies I remember that did work from home and then ended it was Yahoo! in 2013. So, yes, under performing companies do tend to do things like this in lieu of having better management.
Its especially baffling in tech, where immediate worker performance is often relatively detached from actual market performance. Having more managers watching your search engine programmers like a hawk doesn't increase the number of people that want to use a mediocre search engine and be exposed to the ad metrics as a result. Most of these companies are dealing with the consequences of bad products, often due to bad design mandates and shitty direction rather than poor implementation.
Really, when was the last time you saw something in a software product that was a great idea, just implemented poorly. Now, when was the last time you saw a really shitty, experience harming idea pushed on you, regardless of the implementation quality. The latter is what makes people stop using a service.
It's so frustrating. I won't ever go back and I got out well before the coof bullshit. I despise the eggshell floors and I've had enough petty female office drama to last several lifetimes. When a company tries to sell me on management opportunities I just laugh, a dev is always worth more with his IDE open and even if they were serious I have enough experience to know I don't need the fucking hassle.
You save probably more than 1/4 of my salary on rent, office supplies, security, maintained, IT, electricity... I save wear and tear on my car, gas, lunch money, laundry, hair cuts and 1-2 hours of my day (no I will not work till 7 to 'compensate' for WFH, fuck yourself). It's a win win.
This shit is only a problem for positions full of do nothings and companies that can't begin to understand how to quantify work expectations. The only thing that matters is output, what good does playing corporate minder do for the shareholder?
On the topic of output I'm tired of the 40hrs thing too, you clearly have productivity metrics, just tell me what tickets I need to clear for the next two weeks and leave me alone! Open source has functioned like this for decades so successfully all you enterprise niggers use it constantly!
In HS my parents were convinced that the private school they wanted to transfer me into was going to be so far beyond public school (it wasn't, education is a joke all around) and they sent me to one of those goddamn strip mall 'learning centers' and I remember having an autistic freak-out on those rent-a-tutor fucks. I would buckle down and do the whole stack of shit that is supposed to take like 3:30 in an hour and change with near perfect scores and week after week they would shovel more on to the point where I'm just shredding through this standardized test bullshit. I knew what the workload should have been because of the kids around me, the grade levels printed on the worksheets and because it was always the same regardless of proctor but I figured I could prove my way out... right? Wrong.
It went on for months, all summer, I hated it so much and I kept buckling down and they kept feeding me the same mass produced generic fill in the bubble bullshit and I started outright saying shit like "See I don't need to be here, call my parents, tell them I am not struggling with any of this and to pick me up." or "Nah I finished 15 sheets today already, I think I'm done." Then they took my headphones so I couldn't listen to Slipknot or w/e while I was doing this crap (never caused a problem, I was too busy slamming out the bullshit assignments but we must be constantly drug down to the level of the stupidest niggers in the room)... and that's when I literally snapped at the thought of loosing my only coping mechanism and just started going off "This is a fucking scam! Call my parents NOW! I'm not doing another one of these sheets ever again!" It was embarrassing and I still cringe/mald about it (as you can see) but it did work, the fat faggot who ran the place tried to gaslight my parents and I was just like "show them the worksheets you lying fuck" and I never had to go back to that hell.
... anyway that's why I despise time spent as the be all end all metric of effort and also how I learned to be a slacker/stoner and embrace the niggification of the system.
I reject that notion, and he even identifies the problem: most tech startups and large corporations are fucking their workforce right now, regardless of the rest of the economy. It's a market correction. Will it turn around? Probably, eventually, but it's certainly not "up" unless you consider strictly revenue.
