Not a rant but I'm not sure if I made the right choice. I got really curious this year in cloud infrastructure and started studying for my AWS Solutions Architect Exam. The company I work for (large company) allows me to switch roles/teams. Last week I was so bored with frontend I requested to switch to the Platform engineering team. The Engineer manager slacked me this morning....

PE Manager: I'll see you at standup this morning.

Me: Cool ill be there at 9, where is it? By the cafe?

PE Manager: No, in hell. Glad you joined the team 😃

What did I get myself into.

Another Team: How do we do this thing? What aws role do we need?

Me: You do it like this, and I don't know the role by this guy does and all you have to do is ask him for the name of the role to assume.

AT: Ok, great.

AT: We're going to do it like this (wrong way, completely against best practices and completely against what the company architects dictate)

Me: No... thats the wrong way. Don't do it that way. That is bad, because (Reasons A, B, C). Do it the way I told you it should be done.

AT: Ok! I see thank you!

3 hrs later

AT schedules a meeting to go over options to do the thing ... including the WRONG WAY and they still haven't talked to That Guy to get the role name they need.