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Nowadays I only stay late if I'm troubleshooting a production issue. Otherwise, I just take notes of where I am, what I was thinking, and finish the next day.

• bingomantis 11y ago
  I'm currently in a toxic workplace ... incompetent management but I stuck around since I had decent coworkers. Well .. a few reorgs later, and I'm stuck with the crazies ... my current coworkers are keeners/workaholics who work at midnight-3am. They are social BSers since they make sure they email everyone/post questions on Slack. We've been on crisis mode since last fall. Days like this, I feel like I've had it with tech. Wish I had a plan B. In any case, I'll likely quit my job in a few weeks. I like what an earlier poster was saying about respect. Tech is full of the young and it is a competitive field. We have short memories and it seems we have forgotten that our field used to be noble. People used to be in tech because we loved it. Today, it is all about the money and I hate it.
  • fsk 11y ago
    >People used to be in tech because we loved it. Today, it is all about the money and I hate it. It's Gresham's Law. When most of the people in a field are there to chase the money, the people who really enjoy it and are good at it don't fit in and they're the ones who get chased out. That's why things like Scrum and Agile and open plan offices are popular. If you have a team of 20+ mediocre people, you need to do stupid stuff like that to keep things moving in the right direction. It doesn't matter that 2-3 people with real talent would get a better product out cheaper. If you hire 2-3 great people, then you're dependent on them. If you hire 20 mediocre people, then it doesn't matter when one leaves.