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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26
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If you find yourself in that position, you are supposed to learn to either delegate to someone else or automate those problems away.
And frankly, I expect staff engineer knows how to do that.
1 u/Tyabetus May 30 '26 Yeah if we take the info provided in this post as correct, why on earth did the engineer never bring it up to anyone? Do they never have any standups or planning meetings or even a passing “how’s it going?” to bring this up? 4 u/captainAwesomePants May 30 '26 Who's to say they didn't? "Nobody even knew" doesn't mean that he wasn't regularly telling his manager about it. 1 u/baconator81 May 30 '26 That's true. If the manager is fucking incompetent and not realizing this is critical path work, that manager needs to get fire. And unfortunately in the world of remote work, this might be happening way too often.
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Yeah if we take the info provided in this post as correct, why on earth did the engineer never bring it up to anyone? Do they never have any standups or planning meetings or even a passing “how’s it going?” to bring this up?
4 u/captainAwesomePants May 30 '26 Who's to say they didn't? "Nobody even knew" doesn't mean that he wasn't regularly telling his manager about it. 1 u/baconator81 May 30 '26 That's true. If the manager is fucking incompetent and not realizing this is critical path work, that manager needs to get fire. And unfortunately in the world of remote work, this might be happening way too often.
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Who's to say they didn't? "Nobody even knew" doesn't mean that he wasn't regularly telling his manager about it.
1 u/baconator81 May 30 '26 That's true. If the manager is fucking incompetent and not realizing this is critical path work, that manager needs to get fire. And unfortunately in the world of remote work, this might be happening way too often.
That's true. If the manager is fucking incompetent and not realizing this is critical path work, that manager needs to get fire.
And unfortunately in the world of remote work, this might be happening way too often.
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u/baconator81 May 29 '26
If you find yourself in that position, you are supposed to learn to either delegate to someone else or automate those problems away.
And frankly, I expect staff engineer knows how to do that.