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> My conclusion was that fixing the docs was simply a waste of time. My resulting despair for the software and the company surely destroyed my productivity. Wh
by prepend 3y ago
> My conclusion was that fixing the docs was simply a waste of time. My resulting despair for the software and the company surely destroyed my productivity.
What did you do instead? It’s certainly frustrating to have people breaking docs that you fixed. But what else is there. You just figured it out on your own and left the docs broken?
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> What did you do instead? It’s certainly frustrating to have people breaking docs that you fixed. But what else is there. I concluded that it was a fatal and unfixable flaw in that community / product / company. This sapped my motivation, and I'm sure resulting burnout was a factor in eventually being laid off. One thing that sucks about being a senior dev is you're subject to Cassandra [0] syndrome. In a tight labor market, that gets painful. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra