Are you having a "shields down" moment? It happens to everyone, and it will happen to you a lot over your career. http://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/
oh! By that definition my shields are always down.
Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
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#42#1 Bad pay, stressful environment, long hours, lack of autonomy and recognition.
#2 No raise for three years, new tech lead was clueless and a chronic micromanager, careering colleagues lacking ownership. I saw the company going down in two years and the visit from agile gurus confirmed my fears.
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#43I left a web dev job about a month ago. I liked a lot about the company. It was a three-man dev team at an e-commerce startup and we ran a Rails/Angular webapp. The founders were great and the culture fit my personality very well. I left the company after ~6 months because I did not get along well with one of the other developers. We had extreme communication problems and they were causing unnecessary stress. I like…
That moment after a senior or technical lead is ripping a piece of code to pieces for about half an hour while you keep your best poker face, then git blaming the file to show him he's actually the author.
Had it last week and it was priceless.
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#44I left a web dev job about a month ago. I liked a lot about the company. It was a three-man dev team at an e-commerce startup and we ran a Rails/Angular webapp. The founders were great and the culture fit my personality very well. I left the company after ~6 months because I did not get along well with one of the other developers. We had extreme communication problems and they were causing unnecessary stress. I like…
I want to hire that boring and unpolite dev.
They would work quite well on their own. But if the position requires communication between team members, I think they would be toxic. My manager acknowledged this reality during my exit interview. I was the third person added to a team of two, so the manager had not seen this individual interact with other devs before my presence.
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#45I left a web dev job about a month ago. I liked a lot about the company. It was a three-man dev team at an e-commerce startup and we ran a Rails/Angular webapp. The founders were great and the culture fit my personality very well. I left the company after ~6 months because I did not get along well with one of the other developers. We had extreme communication problems and they were causing unnecessary stress. I like…
I don't know the whole story, and I don't mean to trivialize your bad experience, but this section jumped out: > I like to talk to people and joke around with my coworkers. This individual did not seem to have the same desire. On the company’s general slack channel, almost everyone would get in on the socializing, with /giphys and jokes and whatnot… everyone except this one developer. They never, ever said a single t…
I don't need someone I can playfully punch in the arm and tell a knock-knock joke to. I don't care if someone puts their head down and gets their work done without saying a word. But if we're going to be reviewing one another's code, I do need someone I can speak with openly and candidly. That was painfully difficult with this particular individual.
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#46I once took a pay cut of $20,000 when I declined a "promotion" to become the department's manager. I had been with the company all throughout college—the position offered me the flexibility to work and attend university full-time—and once I graduated, I was offered a managerial position; many would consider this the "next step" in their career. But I kept on thinking to myself: What else is out there? So I left. My o…
Yes pretty much everything you did was the incorrect move (at the time). Take the promotion, become manager, then look for other employment using that experience, promotion, and increased salary as a boost.
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know the whole story, and I don't mean to trivialize your bad experience, but this section jumped out: > I like to talk to people and joke around with my coworkers. This individual did not seem to have the same desire. On the company’s general slack channel, almost everyone would get in on the socializing, with /giphys and jokes and whatnot… everyone except this one developer. They never, ever said a single t…
I don't need someone I can playfully punch in the arm and tell a knock-knock joke to. I don't care if someone puts their head down and gets their work done without saying a word. But if we're going to be reviewing one another's code, I do need someone I can speak with openly and candidly. That was painfully difficult with this particular individual.
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying the situation.
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#48I was being harassed all day long, everything they advertised as being their work environment ended up being BS, I wasn't able to do anything, nothing available was worthwhile, there was a lot of anal retentiveness and Jness (MBTI) present, the environment was generally unpleasant, and I quickly realized I was wasting my life in that place. It was annoying, as the place I'm referring to is the almighty Google. This w…
I think one universal truth across big companies is that no 2 teams are the same. I worked on two different teams at a big (not google big company).. the work, the manager, the policies were night and day different. Perhaps they were as different as any jobs I have worked.
Is it possible you just got a not fun Google team ;)
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#49I once took a pay cut of $20,000 when I declined a "promotion" to become the department's manager. I had been with the company all throughout college—the position offered me the flexibility to work and attend university full-time—and once I graduated, I was offered a managerial position; many would consider this the "next step" in their career. But I kept on thinking to myself: What else is out there? So I left. My o…
Yes pretty much everything you did was the incorrect move (at the time). Take the promotion, become manager, then look for other employment using that experience, promotion, and increased salary as a boost.
If you don't want to be a manager, you shouldn't accept the promo. No one wants a boss that hates their life.
Re: Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?
#50I once took a pay cut of $20,000 when I declined a "promotion" to become the department's manager. I had been with the company all throughout college—the position offered me the flexibility to work and attend university full-time—and once I graduated, I was offered a managerial position; many would consider this the "next step" in their career. But I kept on thinking to myself: What else is out there? So I left. My o…
Yes pretty much everything you did was the incorrect move (at the time). Take the promotion, become manager, then look for other employment using that experience, promotion, and increased salary as a boost.
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