That’s interesting, because every office I’ve been in is like this while working only with and building proprietary software Tool flame wars, constant bike she

That’s interesting, because every office I’ve been in is like this while working only with and building proprietary software Tool flame wars, constant bike shedding, “that’s too abstract” premature optimization wars (apparently a list comprehension is too abstract for some eng, if-else all the way down!). Every Medium post by a tech somebody becomes a religious soapbox. I quit it all but kept my job. People complain I skip meetings and take Friday mostly off. But my stories are done by Weds, so really I take Thur off and just do work log updates Fri to make it look like I was still working. And the reason they’re done by Weds is cause I do the programming and skip everything else. Job life feels like being in high school anymore. It’s about social appeasement, debating well trodden concepts at length, and exploring little new ground. Import toolkits and go home. Like most creative endeavors, writing code to express my own mind is fun. Writing code to satisfy the pretense of our job worshipping culture is mind numbing. Edit: Oh almost forgot my “favorite”: environments where open source is leveraged heavily. Millions of lines of imported code, at best 5% was written internally. But somehow the business environment is that they’re engineering thought leaders for building a “tech biz” around a traditional business model. Smh