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@MammaNeedHummus It was a fun week while it lasted, team really came together to stick it to him. Made me *almost* even consider a future in leadership.
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@MammaNeedHummus I guess I haven't posted in awhile. This guy used to give me postable content weekly, you must have joined DevRant after he calmed down for a bit. Check my post history. He's.... where all my karma came from 😬.
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@boombodies ooooooh some goodies there thxs
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@boombodies Leadership is great. Management is not… you led. 👊🏼
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So we'll have people here that will say "Things that didn't happen for 100", but trust me, for a short time this works very well. Clients will have no manager to speak to and can't come up with new bullshit ideas. The manager above the manager will know he's on holidays so they will not drop their bullshit as well. However, if this manager was on holidays for like ... three weeks or more, then the next best senior dev would be the target of all management related crap.
Morale of story: Every time you think your manager is shit, remind yourself that management above is at least as crappy or even worse ;) -
@Nanos I love code too much. I've looked into management a bit and read a couple books on it, but I would never feel comfortable interviewing for managerial roles and the decision to move away from code would hurt my ability to stay on top of it. If I knew someone was being underpaid for their skills I wouldn't see that as a "win", if I successfully scapegoated another department for something that was my fault I wouldn't feel proud of that, and if I did some thing illegal in order to prop up my KPIs I would have trouble sleeping at night. I'm just not cut out for the role. I'd rather accumulate as much respect and reputation as a competent and trustworthy bottom runger than try to compete in the narcisisstic, power hungry, overvalued, and exploitative world of management.
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@MammaNeedHummus most ofthe times, it is crafted to make op look better while making others look bad
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@CodingTripledad Wise comment. Management duties comes and goes in waves and many teams can benefit from being without one a full time manager for some weeks per year but not forever
We had a manager that left and our dev lead took the responsibility for a while - worked better than ever for a month but then they slowly got so backed up they had to stop developing and soon they demanded a full time manager cause they couldn't handle it
Manager: How come I go on vacation for 2 weeks and you are able to start, complete, and ship an entire sprint in that time where as when I'm around, the same amount of work takes months? I even got COMPLIMENTS from *the client* about how smoothly things went while I was gone...THIS IS COMPLETELY EMBARRASSING AND UNACCEPTABLE!
Dev: Well. I cancelled all of the status meetings, created tickets with clear expectations, didn't change those expectations, didn't add every idea that popped into the client's head during those two weeks to the current sprint, didn't pull anyone off their tickets to teach me to code, cut the budget for making degrading comments to zero, and incentivised everyone to work by allowing a half days on fridays to work on personal projects if we stayed on schedule.
Manager: THAT'S NOT YOUR JOB! I'M THE MANAGER AND ALL. OF. THOSE. THINGS. ARE. MY JOB! NOT YOURS!
Dev: ...I know.
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