Need out
Last week I got sick and had to take a few days off. Fever is gone, but I still have to take some ibuprofen before bed and I'll still wake up at 2am with all the muscles in the top part of my chest horrifically sort and hurting. More pills and I'm good until morning and it's completely sore again when I wake up. After an hour or a shower it's totally fine. I'm not sure why my upper body muscles get inflamed constantly. It was in my lower chest and been moving up, so hopefully my body will finally destroy whatever infection is still in my muscles.
I'm required to be in office three days a week but only did two this week because of all the pain and because the VP is out of the country. I HATE being in-office. There's no point. Only the managers are there; 100% of my staff are remote. It's also so damn loud. In other shops they put developers next to other developers. Here I'm around people talking to truckers and shops. Directors don't get offices so I hear my very loud director behind me all the time when I'm trying to call my staff. I've never had to constantly mute/unmute for calls at any other job, due to background noise. It's no where near as bad as my first job where my office was in the call center, but it's not ideal.
The major project I'm on is pretty much set up to fail. It's insanely massive in scope to replace an old IBM system. It has to integrate with the current spaghetti of ancient services that have evolved like a 20 year old cancer. Also our primary database is Mongo, unironically, because everyone before me making decisions was an idiot.
Story refinement sessions are me talking with zero push back or feedback from any developers. I constantly tell people to let me know their design ideas or suggestions and get nothing. My staff is all juniors, and the few seniors just rubber stamp things or can't design critically. One dev comes back from medical leave next week who is a good designer, and I might be able to get him transferred to my team, but maybe not. Even then, I don't have enough good people and this project is insanely complex.
I've only got one interview so far and I'm not confident about job prospects. I need out though. I hate the office, I'm making way under market and the politics of this company are insane.
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if they don't pay well, people don't bother putting in the effort
Unless it's fun. We can actually afford to be paid below market without being poor. One of the perks.
We pay under market, and it's not really fun at all. There's just a mountain of procedural and technical debt.
Haha, a downvote even. Yeah, so if it's not fun at least the pay should be right. Nothing untrue regarding my comment 😂
We're getting a reddit voting culture where your opinion is not liked.
i'm just explaining why the culture is that way, hinting if you find a better paying job people will be more likely to put in the effort
I don't know why I should accept a culture of "please reduce my optionality". I can do fun stuff on my own without someone else's direction. I don't see a reason to say "I can eat bread to survive, I never want a coffee or anything nice". It's just unnecessarily limiting, brings everyone down as a culture, and obviously might not be what others desire. Wealth inequality and people putting their bills on credit cards is very rampant where I live. to say people can just live off canned goods and don't deserve anything else, and to call it a perk, is a little messed up
I don't want a gold star. I want to be able to eat good food, preferably organic without the pesticides. Now they make food on depleted soil, they pack food with preservatives and neurotoxins, because it's cheaper to do so. I don't want to get sick. I want to be able to afford healthcare, to afford a good education for my kids, and to give them a fun life, and to be able to take care of my grandparents without us suffering the abuses that typically come with being poor. There's absolutely no reason to take the perspective to limit yourself. It's literally a form of self-harm to make yourself stunted for no reason. Because of what? The TV told you? You feel guilty? If you eat less food, the africans don't get more food. There's no reason to harm yourself just because the TV tells you to. That's messed up.
Yeah, so we're talking about different stuff. Here you could be paid under market buy still have more than most people as a software developer. No, you should have a decent salary if you work well.
But some things go automatically: you have fun, so you are good, so you make money. For some people all those things are reversed; not having fun, not good, no money. It's a chain.
I had to do community service in a factory. It's not only a fucked up job, everything sucked. The respect, hierarchy, tools..
Nothing wrong w/ disliking comments. Like, for instance, when idiots on that platform report the same issue over && over, again. That, or when people talk out of their assess !knowing anything. I've seen those comments there, as well.
Calling things complex is a bad start. Complex mostly is an insult or lack of understanding.
Ibuprofen is good stuff. Once had unbearable inflammation on my throat. Ibuprofen could solve it temporarily 100%.
It really sucks when people don't give input 😕 I mean, there's always something that could be better and if not, probably not very invested people what is demotivating.
Sound around me at office is fine. I love office but I think the former office culture is dead.
Very relax and take off as much possible. Always keep in mind: all those worthless fuckers doing nothing are also still around. And we're not about life's.
You did take that manager role, right? Was it a good choice?
I did and have been an Engineering Manager for a few months. I do like running a team and have tried to get into management in the past. I would have rather it had been at one of my previous companies where I knew what everyone was doing and what direction we were moving in.
For this particular company, I'm really not sure. Overall it seems to have been a bad choice, but it is what it is (or "it's what it's")
Every dev is now a manager of agents. I really like the challenge of getting perfect result through the agents. I never expected to find something as entertaining as writing code. Now, I feel like an architect. But now, I can produce the same as a whole company on my own 😁 so, being one person is not the problem anymore to compete. Only the marketing huh.
> 'I HATE being in-office. (...) It's also so damn loud.'.
Takes me back to my first job. When the company grew a bit, we relocated to a new office in a different building. It was an open office. Some coworkers mentioned that the open office was the boss' favorite dream. We had those partitions that did little more than slightly decrease the level of distraction you had when seeing people walking around, as you could see solely their heads. It was loud in there, too.
I like that as well. Cubicles not so high are fine if they are from glass. But most preferable is for me just open.
I use to hate cubes until I was in my first open workspace. Talk about a new circle of hell!
At this place we do have cubes. They're not half height, but they're not full height either. It's louder than open-plan layouts somehow, probably due to bad design and lack of sound absorbers. There are also no big clocks anywhere on the floor! .. The company sold their second building across the street years ago, but even when they owned it, there was literally no sidewalk all the way over to it. You couldn't walk to it without going through the grass or walking on the road.
It's like bad design decisions everywhere all the way down.
That building was just stealth. Love it. If you do not see the clock on the floor, you are the clock on the floor - ted.