I hate programming as a profession, I'm done with it. Tried switching jobs, tried all the frameworks, tried different work environments, tried working less, but I don't wanna fool myself anymore. I fucking hate it.

Not sure where I'm going with this, just had to type it out somewhere.

Fellow ranters I have a question.

Do any of you have experience of going from a consultant job to working as a developer for a product company, where the thing you're developing is the actual product and not just some side thing (like a infrastructure company having a website for example).

If so, how did the experiences differ from one another?

I'm considering switching positions to a SaaS company and I'm just wondering how much of all the consultant based BS that I'm constantly stressing over will be erased if I go there.

My biggest gripes about work in my few years of developing have been the lack of team work, really ill formed requirements, low knowledge of the codebase among coworkers and just badly written code bases.

I wonder how much of this stuff is just the nature of the work and how much could be traced back to developers pushing out shitty stuff due to hourly billing, people leaving several times a year.

I’ve noticed a bug in HR that I would like to report. Steps to reproduce:

1. Get offer on LinkedIn/Email
2. Respond politely and optimistically that you’re interested but would like to scale down you’re hours to 32 per week, changes in pay are accepted.

Result: 404 Not found

Expected result: I’m only human let me work part time pls

All we do is make websites. Pointless and shiny digital turds.

Managers should get a pay cut every time they schedule a meeting or a phone call with an employee without mentioning what it’s about.

NORMALIZE 👏 DEVELOPERS 👏 GETTING 👏 THEIR 👏 OWN 👏 OFFICE 👏

So a junior at Twitter created a linter that detects harmful language, then twitter decides to migrate all of their code and documentation to avoid “dangerous language”. The twitter handle of said junior - “negroprogrammer”. The only words twitter should start including in their business is cognitive dissonance.

Ok this should be interesting but this is devRant after all and I couldn’t just not mention this. Cancel me.

Ended friday on a really good note. Started monday on a complete shit note. Why does team communication have to be so fucking difficult? Oh so you want this like this even though you told me this and now I've spent 3 hours getting drained doing this? Fuck this. Also FUCK SAP, any company who uses that shit should be taxed as if they were established in a ultra communist hell (or utopia depending on your beliefs) until they implement something decent.

Man being a designer must be nice. Empathize with a customer and understand its needs, dream up a design and watch people tear their hair out trying to implement it. I picked the wrong career.

How to people enjoy office jobs in places where it’s basically summer all year?

We get a 2 month window of good weather where I live and the last thing I want to do right now is grab another ticket to work on.

I had a short gig for a startup where I was meant to migrate the entire backend to serverless. It was my first time learning what serverless was and I had just been working on the app for around 2-3 weeks.

Boss rolls in with his leased Tesla and sort of hints at me being finished with a certain area by the next day, giving me a wink as if he's just trying to motivate me to keep on struggling.

Turns out he decided that he wanted a fully fledged demo and went off on me because I hadn't finished migrating the UI for that certain section (just the backend). I decided that there were better things to work on while I was at it migrating the backend. Had I known that he expected some form of fancy demo, maybe I would have done things differently.

He then proceeded by letting me know that he could have finished my work in half the time it took me and decided to remind me that I had a probationary employment. I left the company two weeks later and the app never got released.

Two more hours... just to more hours

I'm sorry I just have to -

AHHHHHH!!!!! FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKSHITASSFUCKFUCKTHISSHITFUCKASS

thank you.

I hate Vue, React is better in every single way don’t @ me

Our architecture is so fucking stupid it’s completely fucked.

Has anyone ever actually tried moving to a nice tropical place while making a good living working only 50% part time as a remote developer? It seems like it’s always a friend of a friend of a friend.

Messy business rules results in messy code base results in unhappy programmers results in high turnover rate results in more messy code results in falling business

Man I really don’t like component libraries... perhaps there’s some thought out libs out there. But so far it’s been as if I were to build a bridge with a bunch of “reusable” parts but no one knows what the fuck they may be meant to do so no one bothered to account for anything and didn’t even fit screw holes or something.

So now I have to weld and screw everything together with fucking JavaScript in 10x the time it would have taken me to build the part myself.

I finally realize why the managers at my work are so against remote work.

We've gone remote now and had a meeting yesterday that somewhat demanded people to be engaged. I have never seen such grown up and otherwise professional people act so irresponsible. Managers had to raise their voice towards 30+ year olds in order to get their attention.

I've been silently hoping that remote work would become more accepted, as a silver lining, during this Corona shit. But if this is common behaviour in other workplaces then I guess I can kiss that dream goodbye.

I honestly hope that my whole office gets quarantined so that the stuck up managers will realize that a few days of remote actually works.

So far in my career I've tried been hired to a startup, two medium sized consulting agencies and a Fortune 500 company.

Trying to figure out why the startup and the big company managed to attract so many assholes.

I've heard similar trends from friends in the industry.

Be honest. Given that you're not in crunch mode. Do you actually work 8 hours every day?

I have had some days but usually it's impossible for me to do actual work as a developer for 8 full hours, 5 times a week.

I feel that (without meetings), my ideal schedule for days of normal workload would be 5 hours a day. I'm strictly speaking about focused work, actual programming. Meetings don't usually rack up more than 2-3 hours per week for me.

I do my best to be in the office during the expected hours but I can't help but feel that everything about my engagement, focus and contribution at work would be better if I could just stroll in around 10, well rested, do some actual work, take a short lunch break, go at it again and go home around 15:30...

Because I feel like this I quickly get judgemental about myself if I come in at 9 and leave around 16:30 too often during a work week.

What are your thoughts on this subject?