I wish I could enjoy the movie as everyone seems to, but I read the book years before the movie and all I thought was that the director didn’t even bother reading more than the first chapter. I am not disregarding the movie as a whole but I was strongly disappointed to not even see one good part from the book. The key and portal search was too drastically put down :(

Or - if this is JavaScript - you can have somewhere an ‘eval’ that calls up this function as a result of different variables/texts concats. That’s been my world for quite a while now. I hate ‘eval’ with my whole heart. I am very thankful of the debugger, I would still be chasing this stuff otherwise.

I read these replies and my faith gets restored. Then I remember that in my company the FE has hardcoded user permissions (we currently have 8 user roles that often conflict in case of dual roles), no optimization nor uglify-zation of the code, average operation requires from 2 to even 10+ API calls (e.g. use and translation of user custom fields), no tests... and well, I am glad I am leaving.

The lead BE developer simply doesn’t want to do anything in fear of server performance, which - I dare say - is the least of our problems. Previous FE developers weren’t wise enough to fight this and we have so much stuff left behind. Did I say that I am glad I am leaving?

I have them too, they're totally amusing!

So sorry for you! Hope it's going to be an isolated case!

These people are the bane of team trust and development.

I will never lie in my resume and I will always condemn whoever does.

I hope he will get stuck into a project where there's no way for him to steal shit!

@thevariableman it's nice to read your rant, I am new here and I would love to see this as a supportive community.

Friendships aren't something that grows on the trees and, having been there myself, I suggest that you make at least an attempt at stop wondering why nobody gets back at you and rather get in touch with people and be the one to establish a connection first. Many times, it takes just as little.

Also consider if these people are potentially good acquaintances or really worth working toward a friendship. If you feel alone, know that a bunch of people here gladly support you and cheer you up for as much close as you can feel it to be from strangers online with similar issues. Being alone isn't the same as being lonely and I am sure you're full of interests to keep yourself company and realize that you're always your best companion.

That being said, your boss is an asshole, no wonder at the end of the day you get this terribly moody! I wish you to find a way out from him!

The company where I am going to work next has the motto 'Love the problem, not the solution' as an ode to not get attached to your code and a potentially narrowed mindset while solving stuff.

Similar to @S-Homles - My company is rather small, and the CEO, and very often the PM too, come up with rather interesting overly-wrong estimations. The CEO once told me that he could have done what was an at least 2-weeks-sprint worth of stuff in only three days, on his own. He doesn't code since >20 years, it's difficult to smile and word politely why it can't be as he so wishes and believes. I too would totally pay him back if he was able to back up all his shitty estimations!

That can't be xD don't tell me, wherever the code is, they basically work on production code! Been there, left pretty fast!