being stuck on pointless and very difficult work

new manager: draft a runbook consisting of like ~3 lines for marking a jira ticket as duplicate and closing it

.....like.....i can do this because it's what you want and you're my boss but something about this just doesn't sit right with me /shrug

draft article in atlassian confluence

oops it lost your image when publishing

fuck u atlassian

opengrok doesn't support searching special character forward slash? /

http://bxr.su/help.jsp

like fuck me that's the slash im more interested in, can't remember ever needing or wanting to search for a \ backslash

2 approvals required for merge (not including self) , only 2 devs currently present because vacations

/shrug

when you go through 3 different teams and nobody can explain why a certain item is linked to a subscription and there's no linking row in any of the usual database tables

fml

when you go to the help channel as directed by your team to ask a question

and the help channel redirects you back to your team

when your questions turn into a wall of text because you have a hypothesis and want to show the research you've tried doing, with citations

then nobody reads it or answers you

welp

write comment above block of code

or pull block of code out into method and work the comment into method name

how long should it take a new hire to be able to identify good tickets to work on?

My manager says you shouldn't be doing archaeology work looking at old pull requests and git diffs to figure out how things work.

Are there scenarios when this is useful? How common are they in your day to day?

when the internal documentation examples are a connection to an unmaintained cluster

not a single person along the way could've made the default example to the cluster most people will want? its the only other cluster out of the 2

when your tech lead admits she doesn't know what's going on, but is confident she'll figure it out through archeology

is it possible to learn this power? im malding with jealousy

is the job of being a "software engineer" (code monkey) supposed to be many parts of wannabe archeologist figuring out what the fuck is going on, happened, and reading the codebase , so you can figure out how to implement your jira ticket?

working postman request with SSL , pfx cert against microservice

go to do the same thing against different microservice , SSL error , review config, looks like im supplying same certs, etc

FML

i have no idea what im doing

javascript, jsx, typescript, react have some of the ugliest and redundant syntax i have ever seen

what are people's favorite reference material for them

do people recommend the official documentation, was surprised react looked better than expected for its docs

i have no idea what im doing been here barely 2 months but am being put onto the support rotation, fml, why

Good developers timebox themselves to 15 minutes before asking a question

How do I learn react, jsx, typescript, graphql in 15 minutes to solve my problem or figure out good questions to ask

fml , what are good career alternatives

when you ask the author of a wiki document questions about their document and they redirect you back to your teammates

concious inclusion training: we want you to talk and share about a bunch of shit that's illegal to ask in interviews: age,sex, orientation, family status, religion, values, gender identity, ethnicity etc

what the fuck do any of these things even have to do with the job?

im confused but whatever

to method java doc or not to method java doc

i'll do whatever we're supposed to , but i dont see consistency in industry or my slave drivers

i remember when i first did i was told not to, but then a new senior hire comes in does it and nobody bats an eye

when you get a random DM from somebody on their first day on another team and they ask you about onboarding stuff

i'm not sure why me as i'm on another team and not even 2 months here

i guess i updated some documentation but there was no explanation for why me and at the end of a hard day of work im too done to bother asking why me

testng: if the name doesn't match (fubar locales whatever idk) doesn't match the corresponding test that uses it it'll just silently ignore instead of failing or running the test at all

@DataProvider(name="fubar")
public Object[][]{
//test data setup
}

@Test(dataProvider = "locales")
public void testWhatever(){}

whoever designed it to be this way: why?

nobody has any clue how to rollback or how the options we have work under the hood

how good is our devops out of 10?

when you gotta generate some product ideas and work for the first time at a new company when you've spent your career as a heads down code monkey

bruh i dont know any of the stats or data, or the product yet

who the fuck decided macos not showing the file path in finder etc is the default

also not having a home directory available by default in the side bar

i fucking hate you so much

the gross feeling when

you and your friend both leave your company which pays poorly

then an old coworker tells you they've hired 3 new people

this feels worse than hearing about your ex doing well after you broke up, for some reason

we need you to fix this bug that cannot be reproduced

ugh so now i have to go figure out how to reproduce it? i dont think this shit is even priority

remote team bonding/social activities like playing pictionary or whatever

can we not? maybe its cute the first time, but we're all awkward and i just wanna go home

i dont even understand where this is coming from, if u actually want to make people happy u could just send them home earlier

otherwise why have this stuff instead of just making us wageslaves work like normal anyway

is this another thing like how the hiring budget is bigger than the retention budget or is there different MBA research for why the fuck this is a thing to begin with

"we use story points as an estimate for how much time something will take to complete" or "X story points means Y days of work"

fucking kill me