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given my current reality ~ an obscene company that marketed itself as super tech driven then it's just a bunch of operations people with a phone and a shared ex
by gv83 3y ago
given my current reality ~ an obscene company that marketed itself as super tech driven then it's just a bunch of operations people with a phone and a shared excel file that reject every effort to be automatized ~ the first and last list item hit very close to home as in what is sapping my energy.
it's incredibly discomforting to spend even 10 minutes building things the other party clearly doesn't want, but since everyone is a bloody "head" or "chief" of something, no one ever clearly defined upstream-downstream relations between teams. There is a lot of infighting and parleying over everything.
for the same reason, we switch gears mostly every 90 days, and most of the code has been written by some very junior programmers that never deleted any now unused feature and spaghettized everything (every 1-n relation has the fk on the wrong side lol). the PO is also a nice guy but absolutely incompetent at navigating this particular org, as suffers from the hero syndrome and wants to save the company.
the pay is decent (for where I live at least; it's a /10 from the "500k tc/1 yoy" reality of usa, and i have like 10 YoY, even if I worked in very modest places so not many big challenges), and i'm changing house in a couple of months. Thanks to idiotic local policies the furniture+building materials prices skyrocketed (literally 2-5x). This is literally the last bit of motivation I have and I'm counting the days until I can finally let go of those cretins, even if I have to stay a couple months without work.