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I think you just have to push back on their "no" and tell them to trust you / win their trust through personality and humanness. they seem scared and need a saviour, and because scared they doubt any future course of action and it's making them critical of solutions. so someone needs to basically tell them they're being dumb and what their next course of action should be, and strongly so that it cuts through that aura of fear they're spellbound by
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@jestdotty I guess, I've been loud several times already though. Not just about the org but even little things like my second WFH day which I had put into my contract before signing it. It's been close to 2 years now. I'm tired of shouting at this point. I've tried every way I can think of to motivate them into seeing something needs to happen.
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@retoor I've basically been shadow running as an tech lead/architect.
There's just so much work that needs doing and I can't do it all myself. But feels unfair to give those juniors stuff I'm supposed to do, as all the "complex" work goes to me as an developer. Not giving me time to either be a full time developer running around putting fires all day whilst not having the room nor support from management to become a tech lead to fix some systemic issues.
It took us 2 years of constantly asking if we can have the ssh/mysql passwords to all the DTAP environments. I'm just tired at this point.
These juniors are barely out of school.
One when asked if he knew what OOP was and if he can work with it, said yes. So I asked what an object was, and he couldn't answer. Now talking about a "zesjescultuur".
Dont get me wrong they are great, but I can't really get them to help with a good bit of stuff. -
@retoor it's in PHP. Tho they were trying to get us to move to C#. Because one of the 4 companies use that and our head of IT is buddies with the dev there. *Screams internally*
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@retoor Laravel + blade/vue front-end. Before here I was using Symfony. Still kinda miss it but slowly begrudendly falling in love with Laravel.
Still going to Symfonyconf this year tho. Woo
I'm currently on Linux, but soon moving to Windows because IT can't/won't figure out an VPN or jumpbox for Linux. So I'm giving into their shortcomings. I hate Windows so much tho..
C# is okay if it's dotnet core or w/e its called, but it would be windows dotnet framework, which sorry, but ew.
I've been playing with OpenSwoole in my free time though. It blows my socks off in how fast it is. :) -
@antigermgerm I guess front-end is a lot lighter on the org BS. But I just love back-end work and find it much easier, except for dealing with org BS and office politics... I don't get paid enough for that shit lmao
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@AvatarOfKaine sure, have mine.
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@retoor yep async php feels weird at first. It's slowly getting more popular though you got OpenSwoole, Swoole, FrankenPHP etc.
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@rootshell how much it pay ? :P
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@rootshell we can switch positions if you like :P
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@rootshell I happily complain about work when I feel needed and successful :P
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@AvatarOfKaine 3300 euro before taxes
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@rootshell a month ?
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@AvatarOfKaine yuh
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@rootshell k. I bet I could Make that work. I'll just live in Hungary after picking up a few guns in Switzerland
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@AvatarOfKaine did you not read the mess I'm in? U sure bout that three fiddy?
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@rootshell well I mean you could bring me on tell me what your priorities are that are reasonable and I could start working on the issues if we're really talking
Sounds like you need more people which likely your budget can't hire at full price.
Enter cheap American labor to yhe rescue lol -
@rootshell I worked On a team building an erp btw
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@AvatarOfKaine not sure if this company will spring for remote. Otherwise I'd try honestly.
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@rootshell I'm actually the perfect candidate
I'm old
I'm calm
I hate America and want to leave lol
And like everyone right now over here I'm totally fucked and sick of it lol
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@rootshell ìf you want some idea of the vibe over here right watch the show "From" and picture someone dumping shit on it
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@rootshell Switzerland? Or Netherlands?
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@rootshell well you should find out
I won't live in the Netherlands
But Italy
Switzerland
Hungary
I love two of those places and another's cheap lol -
@rootshell und I can carry a shooty thing in Switzerland and they love military service :)
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@AvatarOfKaine would have to be local sadly.netherlands
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@rootshell but it's snakey there
And I bombed the Hague... -
@AvatarOfKaine i've not gotten my second wfh day in 2 years. But sure lemme sell you on this remote cunt. 🏌️
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@rootshell I'm not a remote cunt lol I just think the Dutch are fucking crazy lol
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@rootshell maybe Portugal? I like Portugal lol I never did a fly over of Portugal lol or Switzerland or France or Spain or Italy lol
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@AvatarOfKaine its either be local or no go. Its an old company
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@rootshell besides just do it lol
Well have fun and it will deviate from what you said last time instead of being a bot I'm talking to in real time or some other guy pretending to be a guy who was pretending to be the guy who hired me who was shit out by the snak -
@rootshell also that was my line you just used I wrote it lol
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@rootshell can a bring a battalion or two with me or is that a deal breaker lol
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@AvatarOfKaine I'm serious its either in office ot they wont hire you.
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@rootshell is this the weird company or the company with the thing hiding in the back room ? Just curious. Also why it is someone is repeating my line I gave them lol
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@AvatarOfKaine I am the thing they hide in the back. ;)
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@rootshell noooooo lol the thing they hide in the back ate an acquaintence of mind lol
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@rootshell how bout you just send me some more money so I can get out of here before it explodes ?
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
I miss when I was a junior sometimes. Just hammer out some code and go home at 5pm...
Main company: 3 juniors and me
3 daughter companies (acquired in the past 2 years)
CEO: "I want to make the best brandportal in the Netherlands."
Our main webshop: held together with ducttape and prayers, no brand management tools
Daughter companies got their own webshops.
There is no technical leader in the company.
We're migrating to another ERP somewhere this year and these airheads can't decide whether to keep existing products or not, let alone anything substential.
They want to outsource the connection between the shop and the ERP, despite that being the current situation and going horrible, but because in the new ERP some things cant be done we are introducing yet another management pane. Yay!
No sensible roadmap, got shot down when I asked being interim techlead/software/solution architect until we find someone...
My current manager literally dropped all her responsibilities onto a PM who doesnt know what the fuck to do either.
I'm sitting here pulling through because it'd look bad on my cv to quit another company so soon again despite the company having no future nor growth opportunities for me.
I seeth everyday, yet know if I drop out they'll have to crawl back to the external software dev company we inherited the shitshow from. Because you just need a few devs to have a dev team right?!
CEO actively boast about us saying they told her that it can't be done while our product crumbles bit by bit from architectural problems. It wasnt even designed as an webshop let alone a brand management tool..
One of these days I'll just go into consulting, it'll be just as soul crushing but atleast I get to keep a slightly larger slice of the pie and be able to say no to shit customers sometimes.
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