@retoor I would not describe it as a good environment. Certainly not a healthy company. I expected with how the company functions that we would be leading losses for the last 3 years, not just now. We have insane high turnover rate.

At least my time at the company was not really boring.

@tosensei The weird thing that he is not an incompetent developer

He is just a fanboy of every current tech. He was also an NFT & crypto bro... And now vibe coding is the latest fad

@retoor they don't even know the features that they want to have in the application. We don't even know how big the app will be.

But we are certain the app will be redesigned at least 3 times before it is being shipped.

They approved it the next day and today they already abandoned it. :D

6 days, even worse than expected!

@Grumm I did. My colleague was a bit more hopeful haha

@donkulator yes, legally they have to.

@Lensflare He did not even start yet at the company. He was fired before his first day but already signed the contract so they got to pay him out :p

For context, our revenue so far is -100k for 2025 and they are cutting costs. We usually make 200k profit per quarter so they are panicking.

And they got AI for marketing ads now and it's sooooo bad.

@jestdotty No idea how much they really ask for so I cannot say it for certain.

But I think; it's like €30-€100 per user per month + €200 initial setup cost

@max19931 90% work, 10% private

@osx94 Our previous goals (and also bonus) were barely met or failed by a few percentage.

But this is not even 30% completed.

@Hazarth Knowing my CEO, it won't :D

@retoor yes, our company sells only 1 service via different products. That server is responsible for the service that users wants to use our system.

Our API, database, ... is still working but users do not care about this if the key functionality is now breaking.

Compare it to a messaging app. you can see all chat history & all contacts but cannot send or receive messages. Users would be very unhappy.

@AlgoRythm yes, he was holding the phone.

Shoving a grandma to the ground (and potentially causing some damage to her) and stealing her purse would be a less severe punishment

@cafecortado it is planned at 16:00. What an odd time

@lorentz he is a consultant at that company so different rules fot sure

@retoor I think the main target of "AI friends" will be the lonely introverts than extroverts. There is real loneliness epidemic going on and a lot of (younger) people crave social contact or something that looks like it.

@retoor Yes, even had to troubleshoot some issue at a customer. Stupid hardware acceleration :D

i need a different job but there are no job openings nearby :(

@iiii Pretty much sums up this planning the past year... At least we have a planning now compared to the last 2 "scrum masters"

Also, what retarded company decides for 3 app deployments on friday afternoon and have no one on standby for the weekend to fix potential problems 🤡

@gto3000 They did not move to our country. They are working abroad (Other European country & somewhere in Africa). Our "company language" is English which is not one of the national language of my country. Nearly all data we have is from one of our national languages.

@retoor Thank you, forwarded it to my colleagues

@Demolishun Indeed, Dutch is so bad but Flemish is so much better

@retoor Alright, let me know. Maybe we can also investigate it or have already investigated that one.

@atheist How long do you expect till the decision backfires for the company?

@retoor Well, the language is Dutch but from Belgium. A lot of people here speak in a dialect that the LLM struggles with.

Except for the Antwerp dialect, that one gets handled surprisingly well. I guess the Dutch accent is a bit better? They are checking different modals cuz the prices remain too high to make commercial sense.

Also, GDPR is not accounted for so far.

@Piniuze It's not my job to keep them. We got a new marketing person a few months later and that guy quit last week (not joking). I think he was here for around 6 or 8 months. Unsure...

At this point, it's just funny and I cannot wrap my head around how my company can stay afloat.

@jestdotty Today, we have a normal workshop & 4 hours of my boss copying motivational guru Tony Robbins.

He does a session like once every 3 months where he copies a speach of him since I started nearly 4 years ago.

To be fair, the activity was not that bad except we had no place to wash our hands after. They decided on sandwiches (without plates) with our dirty hands and now i have stomach today :')

Also was fun to see our spanish & kenyan colleagues suffer from freezing temperatures outside temperatures

To be fair, his flight got cancelled. He will arrive tomorrow. We are not racist