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I do see your point, yes. The contract is formal for a reason. I'm being far too fuzzy, my team probably don't know what they're supposed to do in the case of an emergency, so log …

"I think at the very least we can agree that it is the employee's job to inform their superiors of feature creep, looming technical debt, and whatever bad practices they see. " Yes…

Okay, I see. I will talk to my team on Monday and ask their opinion. For the record, I don't agree that life is as black and white as the first sentence. There are plenty of sympto…

Honestly, I'm talking about problems that I'm sure are actually affecting the core business. Anything trivial I'll deflect long before I talk to an engineer This is all something o…

"I shouldn't be able to get shitty code into production" Seriously? My job is to watch over your shoulder and double-check everything you do? No, there's more to life than this.

I phrased that wrong, but I'm not sure how else to phrase it. I suspect we violently agree, but if you want to take this offline I think my email is in my profile I have a remote t…

The wonders of missing context :) Its not mission critical or life-threatening. I know this, my team knows this, but someone up in the food chain is going to want blood for any ser…

As a manager: If your code blows up in production on a Saturday afternoon, and you don't answer email/skype/phone, you've effectively left me in the shit. I know thats my job, and …

If you could separate the inbound traffic to either the website or the API, then you could do this. You'd need something in front of the code you're deploying though My team has a …

Assign bug to me... Fix bug in 20 minutes... wait 3 days (binge watching netflix)... Commit fix, mark bug as fixed... Relying too much on commits / tracking tools is a red flag of …