In a previous job I got very close to a ‘them or me’ ultimatum. Then I got over it. Then we all got laid off.
Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
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#92This fucking year... So, for starters I'm already really depressed and low energy due to a death of a really close family member. I have particularly low tolerance and high fatigue due to this. So, we shipped a product, successfully on time in a company that has had many years of difficulty of shipping products in our target market. Which was the goal. So the new management decides to disband the team, most of the te…
What managers don't understand is that there are developers with negative work output.
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#93Leaders that claim to be leaders but are actually managers.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Always be refactoring - work that shit into the ticket.
Yeah, that was my intention when I saw what I had to work with. But it was also specifically prohibited.
How do you prohibit making code better?
> for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change
And all that jazz...
Was your boss a super dev reading the code and calling out if it looked better?
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#95I don't want to be fired. I absolutely love my job and the people I work with. But I can just smell that we are about to hit a sticking point with how I don't do on call (it was never mentioned in the interviews or part of my contract) and I don't respond to work after 5pm. If it does come to that sticking point I'm trying to figure out how to be the most assertive and diplomatic. I.e. How do I convey that I badly wa…
> I'm trying to figure out how to be the most assertive and diplomatic. Having a job offer in hand does wonders for one's communication skills.
I perpetually have a few competitive alternatives. But I don't want to have a conversation that way. I shouldn't have to.
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#96I didn't know this format was a thing and am so very excited to discover it. I hope you folks enjoy reading horror stories. I got a job as a Software Engineer in my current company 4.5 years ago; friend-of-a-friend sort of thing. The company had an apparently disastrous piece of software that was their main LOB. They had gone through pretty much every local consulting agency - at least once, on a few occasions they h…
So sad I can only give you one upvote per comment. That was one hell of a ride. Have you tried to defuse your dangerous CEO by giving him a harmless hobby?
Launching anvils into orbit with black powder?
Do-it-yourself bacterial genetic engineering?
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#97I don't want to be fired. I absolutely love my job and the people I work with. But I can just smell that we are about to hit a sticking point with how I don't do on call (it was never mentioned in the interviews or part of my contract) and I don't respond to work after 5pm. If it does come to that sticking point I'm trying to figure out how to be the most assertive and diplomatic. I.e. How do I convey that I badly wa…
I think the best way to convey something you don't know how to say is to put it this way
"I don't know the right words to use - so I'll say it directly. I BADLY want to keep this job but I even more so can't be 'on call'" .. you can explain to them that for you personally you need separation between work and personal life."
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
So sad I can only give you one upvote per comment. That was one hell of a ride. Have you tried to defuse your dangerous CEO by giving him a harmless hobby?
Launching anvils into orbit with black powder? Do-it-yourself bacterial genetic engineering?
I was thinking less dangerous to the company, so these hobbies would be okay for this goal.
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#99I didn't know this format was a thing and am so very excited to discover it. I hope you folks enjoy reading horror stories. I got a job as a Software Engineer in my current company 4.5 years ago; friend-of-a-friend sort of thing. The company had an apparently disastrous piece of software that was their main LOB. They had gone through pretty much every local consulting agency - at least once, on a few occasions they h…
Logically you need to figure out in what way CEO benefited from this it sounds like he should be in jail.
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#100I'm the sole developer working on my current project, which is overhauling a massive DOS era application, as well as overhauling an early 2000s era CRM/business management tool, that almost all of our work happens through.
Did I mention that the DOS application is a HIPAA billing application that must meet all HIPAA guidelines as well as write EDI X12 billing files?
I'm very junior, been coding for ~5 years, 3 professionally, but this is my first real dumpster fire. We were about to hire a second developer, but turns out he had a record. Not for just anything, which we don't really worry about, but for embezzlement on the healthcare billing application he used to own. So, no. No can do.
So now poor 18-year-old me is knee-deep in a ton of shit I don't understand, working on non-version-controlled code, having been expressly forbidden from using ANY VC by the CEO, and trying to get details out of my older supervisor who built the code we're using, but he's near retirement and has so many vacation days saved up that he spends maybe 10 days a month in the office. I honestly can't blame him, but I either need resources to help me deal with legacy code, or a nice entry-level rails job, because I want to finish learning rails.