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Considering to take a long break rn. I love programming and software development, but my current boss keeps sending me “in link is uuid need to pass it at newco
by wruza 4y ago
Considering to take a long break rn. I love programming and software development, but my current boss keeps sending me “in link is uuid need to pass it at newcode and this new service when will start check-status of this uuid if it changes during 15 minutes then like <projectname> we’ll send status as in second case”. This is our usual technical requirements document, no preface, no follow ups expected. They like multiple simultaneous references in speech, like: this takes that then it goes there, second sends, … all [mis]referring to different things. These are all pointers into their mind which obviously nobody can read, but it doesn’t bother them. I literally experience mind segfaults as in xkcd/371, and guess what, it really isn’t fun.
If you don’t understand where this link will come from, which new service (does it exist? should it be created? should it be a service, or is it just an assumption?), how and where to apply a 15min constraint, what’s the second case - neither do I. Every task starts a hard deciphering process of a context, a goal, a supposed solution (which is not how it gets done anyway) and a sentence itself. It doesn’t take much time to sit and try to form some structure in a dialogue, but it takes so much mental energy that it hurts.
The job itself is hacker-ish and includes funny tech like xvfb/vnc, adb, ocr, some infra, frontend, some hw. Which I like and not afraid to use, learn or hack. But this constant contextless gibberish just drives me nuts.