Manager: "add this"
Me: *adds the thing*

One week later:
Manager: "Remove this we don't want it anymore"
Me: Fuuuuuuuckkkkk

so what?

@iiii my manager is an asshole generally. He doesn't listen. I'm a senior but not a fucking ounce of respect.

Job security

`git revert` got your back

well he's paying you to waste your time. you get paid for all that time. and their product goes nowhere. sounds like not my problem

That manager sounds like a designer I met at my second job...

"OMG WE DIDN'T GET ANYTHING DONE THIS SPRINT" rant incoming. But been there, kinda sucks though I tend to then just make it "my" code ;P

@D-4got10-01 for designers, it's literally their job to work like that. It's normal. Terrible :p

@BordedDev exactly.

Hmm, why would remove a feature? To skip the mwintance on it in future? I mean, if it's built.. But yh, would piss me off as well.

@jestdotty not waste, but practice programming. even if the result is not released it's still some experience

@iiii I don't think most jobs have anything complicated to program. nothing to "practice"

@retoor Nah. A good designer comes up w/ something that sticks or needs only small tweaks.

A designer that keeps redesigning things frequently is a bad one.

I've seen too many of the latter type.

@D-4got10-01 yeah, everyone can be a designer. It's funny how much of a difference it makes like you're saying between a good and a bad one. Telling them that one part of the UI would take a lot of work because of a technical reason (e.g. transparency or something) and them understanding and being ok with that is also a good hallmark IMO

@BordedDev Yup. A good designer should also be wary of platform limitations, as well as listen to feedback, you mentioned.

Definitely !keeping the attitude of 'I need to see it working to make the judgment.'.

@jestdotty even simple practice is still practice. it's easy to forget some patterns (not the OOP patterns, but in general) if you don't use them often enough. even if it's not something extremely complicated, it's still some task solving

@iiii x_x

I think this is one of those jobs AIs should be automating away

@jestdotty dunno what happens in your world, but in the real world work does not exist only on "braindead" and "extremely complicated" levels.

@iiii huh that is the real world though

there is stuff I know so this is braindead, and there is stuff I don't so I can't tell you the estimates and I might rewrite it a couple times even before I'm satisfied (which is fun but I can tell it's more-so for my benefit!)

practice sounds really weird. this isn't like a sport. you already know how to type

@jestdotty it's not about typing, but whatever