Boring work needs tension

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Post by iaziz786 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 3:44 PM UTC

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by ian-g » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:00 PM UTC

Or maybe, sometimes it's just flat out dull work. And it has to get done, you're the one with the capacity to do it, and you just have to grit your teeth and do it.

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by datadrivenangel » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

Unless you work on a dysfunctional team and any non-tracked work is forbidden, and any work you try and get tracked requires 6 pages of justification and takes 10 weeks to get prioritized enough for someone to work on...

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by kbar13 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

who's working at a boring job nowadays as a software dev? everywhere i see devs are wearing like 10 hats bc we have the combination of being capable yet still at the bottom of the totem pole.

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by marcosdumay » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

datadrivenangel wrote: post #3

Unless you work on a dysfunctional team and any non-tracked work is forbidden, and any work you try and get tracked requires 6 pages of justification and takes 10 weeks to get prioritized enough for someone to work on...

You have a funny definition of "dysfunctional".

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by wavemode » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:29 PM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #5

datadrivenangel wrote: post #3

Unless you work on a dysfunctional team and any non-tracked work is forbidden, and any work you try and get tracked requires 6 pages of justification and takes 10 weeks to get prioritized enough for someone to work on...

You have a funny definition of "dysfunctional".

How so?

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by ramon156 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

datadrivenangel wrote: post #3

Unless you work on a dysfunctional team and any non-tracked work is forbidden, and any work you try and get tracked requires 6 pages of justification and takes 10 weeks to get prioritized enough for someone to work on...

My team isnt dysfunctional but I always get hit on the head for doing work and not making a ticket. I don't get it, if I see something bad I'm not going to search which ticket would best fit this issue. Just reviw my PR !

Also, so far most of our projects start simple but end in chaos and deadlines on the minute. I feel like we could always do better.

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by tra3 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:32 PM UTC

I feel like "tension" has negative connotations. Maybe it's just me. I like "friction" better in this context.

There are so many opportunities for improvement, I'm never bored. My aim is to leave this place better than I found it. Even tiny improvements compound over time.

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by tra3 » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:33 PM UTC

wavemode wrote: post #6

marcosdumay wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have a funny definition of "dysfunctional".

How so?

Surely it was in jest. Tons of places are like that.

Re: Boring work needs tension

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Post by eschneider » Mon, Sep 15, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

> Your CI/CD takes a huge amount of time because you forgot to leverage caching.

The bane of my existence are CI/CD systems that get caching 99% right. Chasing down the problems from that last 1% of strangely busted...well, lets just say that if you want TENSION at work, good way to get it. :/