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.
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.
They’re the wet dreams of marketing departments the world over, but genuinely shit for everyone who has to concentrate on their work lol
Modern “open plan” offices with hot desking bullshit are not designed for neurodivergent people which are generally drawn to programming.
Ooo! Are we playing Corporate Lingo Bingo?
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…
Everyone wants to touch my base and I haven’t even started building one yet
Getting paid 130k+ a year is a pretty good life for writing emails.
Its essentially a trade of your soul for writing emails.
Meh. I work 35 actual hours in front of a keyboard. I have my days but I’m happy and mostly fulfilled.
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:
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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.
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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;
- Constantly get shuffled around on tasks by my manager who goes into panic mode if his supervisor asks about something.
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Is this Patrick Bateman? Cause I’m reading this in his voice.
It sure is. Seems like something he might say unironically.
No, it’s not Bateman, that’s Batman.
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