I’ve been a software developer for the better part of 20 years and I’m so fed up with this whole situation. Time for a new career.
My CV looks something like:
- Jr Support agent > Sr Support agent > Lead Support agent
- Tech engineer
- DevOps engineer
- DevOps lead
- Sysadmin > Sr SA > lead SA
- Technical Architect> Solution Architect > Sr Arch > Enterprise Arch
- Director of IT
- Raising chickens
Chickens might shit everywhere, scream constantly, and flap their wings just to get attention, much like managers. But they can’t make you polish that shit into a product to sell. And if one gets out of line you can just eat them.
And if one gets out of line you can just eat them
Same with managers. It’s frowned upon, but don’t let that stop you
One might argue that not eating them when they get out of line is what’s causing all the problems
But they can’t make you polish that shit into a product to sell
You’re probably aware, but the product (eggs) comes from the same place as the shit. At least for chickens anyway, never seen the anatomy of a manager, but I hear they’re invertebrates so it may be slightly different.
It’s the opposite: your table scraps are their chickeny gold 🥹
They’re not trying to get attention. They’re trying to express their natural instinctive behaviours, and are being prevented by your violence and cruelty.
Yes! Your deeply intellectual take based on my comparison of chickens shitting and screaming to how IT managers act is surely correct about how I live my life, and how those chickens live.
Fun fact - Our chickens live freely in the forest during the day, and have a nice safe place to sleep at night. We don’t force them to come home, but they know what lives out in the forest and choose to come back to where they are safe and have friends.
Oh and we don’t eat them. But if you wanna call pulling their non-viable eggs out from wherever they left them today violence then I have a few bridges to sell you in manhattan.
That’s why he was a director of IT before the chickens, lol
Hah! Fair jab. In my defense that title was just a blown up way to attempt to keep me onboard without a raise. Being director of IT in a startup with only one IT person is definitely not filled with director-level tasks. That title, and the bullshit that came with it, are a big part of why I left.
I mean… I’ve dealt with plenty of AppSec, Development, and IT directors, and I’d say about half of them treated us like chickens. “Once they stop laying, slaughter 'em”
Glad you got out while you still could!
“I resign”.
rent ain’t gonna pay itself lol.
But I’m working towards it
Yeah. I hate that the choice is between being miserable or being able to pay the bills. FML
Come and work with public goods too. Retroactive and deep funding are a thing too
I’m not opposed to be honest. Know any projects looking for Go devs?
I am not aware of any at the moment, but Go devs are always in demand. I’ll let you know in case I hear anything
“Why dont you just have AI do that?”
Vibe coding L
Like I use a lot of ai but u gotta be specific and understand the architecture lol.
