• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I wished to sit in an open plan office where everyone could see me scratch my ass while all conversation and meetings were done via Slack and Zoom, even if we were next to each other.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      I essentially quit the programming profession because of fucking open office plans. Just an absolute nightmare as far as actual productive coding environments are concerned.

      • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        They’re the wet dreams of marketing departments the world over, but genuinely shit for everyone who has to concentrate on their work lol

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        Modern “open plan” offices with hot desking bullshit are not designed for neurodivergent people which are generally drawn to programming.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    I just love waking up to a flurry of emails from my boss frantically asking me to do basic tasks. It’s how I know I’m a valued team member! And I do this for less and less every year due to the fact the raises are never high enough to counter inflation.

    They keep telling me I’ll be rich soon, guys! Oh man, I wish I were kidding…

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        Meh. I work 35 actual hours in front of a keyboard. I have my days but I’m happy and mostly fulfilled.

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          I do the same… and i guess i am burnt out by lack of interesting and consistent work to do.

          aspects of my job I absolutely hate:

          1. Maintaining a DLL( or shared object) in a large piece of software where my team’s scope is so narrow that we are just a conduit between two other processes. bugs get introduced by behavioral changes from upstream or downstream.

          2. No real exiciting problem to solve.

          I learnt Compiler design, Complexity theory, Concurrency, Algorithms, etc in college. But I look at bad code that does if (boolvar) return 1; else return 0;

          1. Constantly get shuffled around on tasks by my manager who goes into panic mode if his supervisor asks about something.
  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Ever since I was a

    sophomore in college(?)

    I knew I wanted to

    work cross functionally across teams

    Otherwise I might be in yesterday’s Excel meme 😳 only a lil Excel/GSheets pls