Has anyone had their 'manager' monitor them incredibly invasively and unhealthily to the point it added 110% more stress to the job?

In this case I speak of PIP(s). I've had to log exactly how I divided my time, what I did every single day, and what hours I spent on what, plus make posts of this in reporting software! I lost at least 50% of my time just managing the damn hours. Nerve-wracking.

And as we all know, PIPs are mostly a sign that they want you out of the company. I was so naive to believe it was not my case but later I found out from management themselves that they had been shit-talking about me the whole time and were trying to 'guide' me (yeah: to kick me out). Who do they think they are? Fucking snowflakes.

Son of a bitch. You can't have gaps in your CV or you are considered a red flag. Companies want good-working rats that never take breaks in life!

Sick of this shit.

Annoying: when a friend asks you for help with a computer issue and then a few moments later solves it themselves.

DevRant Slim Application Error

So will the real devrant please stand up
and put each one of those fingers on each hand up
please stand up
please stand up
(we're gonna have a problem here)

y'all act like you never seen a devrant before

'cause I'm Slim rant all you other Slim rants are just imitating so won't the real Slim rant please stand up,

lmao.

Don't you find it annoying when the dev team gives you the worst or less than absolute minimum of time to test a new release?

It's like... that itches with me so hard. Come on.. we're testing a build here. You want me to brush over this? The amount of bugs that might pop up...(oh yeah we just bill the client for those later lolololol)! Especially when no one wrote tests, or just minimal, I... sigh.

lol

DevRant not really working for me. Keep getting Simple Application Error for dayzzzzzzzz.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem - especially in corporate - but have you ever had one or more colleagues actively want to sabotage your career progress and blatantly undermine you by constantly writing peer reviews about you in an unnecessarily negative and aggressive way while they themselves advance and steal your progress?

I have been through such toxicity. I've had colleagues do this - colleagues who didn't like me as a person, all conspiring against me (no joke - I saw it at the water cooler talk). I sure hope this doesn't happen too often to people.

I wonder if technical knowledge truly matters outside of those companies that try to filter people based on tests...

And if not... then I'm just studying for myself. lol

Ohhh, it's Black Fridaaaaay.

IT'S A STAMPEDE!!!

Welcome. You have chosen, or been, chosen.

Gjghhhhhhglobglobgloburghhjj. Pick that up. Throw it in the trashcan.

Man... oldschool gaming is hardcore. I have been playing SNES games and they use a password system where you only get the password if you get enough points, which are one-shot only and if you miss your chance, no password for you. lol. And then you have to play another 4 levels to get your next password... upon which the difficulty to get it is progressively more difficult.

As you may know, SNES cartridges used a button cell for saving state between sessions. Now I also understand why I had spent entire afternoons on a game in my childhood... because you couldn't save. LOL. It was just passwords.

Another coding test that takes 2 hours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Fun Java test:

Without looking up anything, answer the following question:

Which of the following variable identifiers is legal in Java and why?

1) float $50.00;
2) float $50_00;
3) float 50;
4) float else;

First it was Amazon region-wide service issues. Now it's Cloudflare having issues.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Fuck sake man.

Have you ever done a programming language/stack switch in your career? And how do you defend that if you don't have experience in it? Let's say you worked 4 years in Java and now you want to move to C# .NET. I know this has been answered before. lol

Employers are always whining that I don't have experience in it, so it's not a match. This is what happens when you have an HR dumbo as your first interviewer.

- they are both OOP
- they are both compiled + interpreted (JVM and Bytecode vs .NET runtime vs MSIL)
- very similar syntax, data type ecosystem, etc

Clients refusing you because recruiter says "oh it's not a match 'cause he doesn't have the 4 years .NET you asked for".

Sigh.

When you heard so much about A.I. that you think 'code assist' in Eclipse means A.I., when it really just means local docs contextual pop-up. lol

The Orwellian irony is that A.I. agents can probably help me better at finding a job than most recruiters can. lol

This November shall be... Noirvember, i.e. watching Film Noir. Nyah, see? H'what are you saying, see?

If only all job-hunting web UIs had proper filtering options, e.g.:

- by location, job type, contract type, etc etc.

A number of them just dump all the applications in one place.. without filters.. sigh lol.

Tired of vertical scroll websites.

Painful but true quote:
"Technology never exists in a vacuum—we’re constrained by our tools
and the social, economic, and historical factors that produced them."

The Pomodoro technique works wonderssssss!

Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.

I just can't. lol

"can i get a curry goat rice and peas"
lmfao. trying not to laugh.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

"Guru meditation". Talk about weird errors... lol.

Job-searching while listening to Final Fantasy VIII. Know what I'm sayin'?

One of the challenges I find is remembering which construct works in which context. It's like.. I try to pass in rgb() in JavaScript but then I forget that only works in CSS. lmao. Things like that... Through learning a ton of mixed things, sometimes the brain mixes things up. Yes, I know it depends on how well you master your fundamentals. lol

Sigh. There are a number of 'app' makers out there that slap their website into a WebView framework and call it 'our app'. Are you fucking kidding me? If you develop an app, make it at the very least native, not a port. Lazy fuckers.

How many of us tap their keys with their fingers extra hard even though the keyboard is responsive and flat enough? lol

A true dev rant now: I find it difficult to get Unicode working. There is a nice assignment in a book where you have to insert a balloon emoji on the page.

Okay, easy enough. So I use <meta charset="UTF-8"> and then the HTML entity &#x1F388; which works, but then in JavaScript it doesn't work:

<div id="output"></div>
<script>
let balloon = '\u1F388';
document.getElementById("output").textContent = balloon;
</script>
Either I don't have the right font, or something else is going on.

And now more research. This is what I find cumbersome about Computer Science; hours stuck on one single thing. lol