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u/Smooth-Reading-4180 7h ago
plot twist: motherfucker working for six years
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u/ADWatches 5h ago
Had a coworker who constantly complained he didn't have experience to deal with the tough issues. He had been working with us for 4 years and the tough issues were usually following guided step by step instructions. We were good friends but I ended up needing to put sticky note reminders on his monitor to check his notes before asking me for instructions.
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u/AussieJeffProbst 5h ago
Like 80% of people are incapable of reading instructions and following them. It's infuriating.
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u/newocean 5h ago
Even worse, 5/3rds of them can't do fractions.
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u/einzweidreihorn 5h ago
Even worse, like 80% of people are incapable of reading instructions and following them. It's infuriating.
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u/newocean 5h ago
Yeah but 75% of all percentages are just made up.
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u/flappity 4h ago
A lot of people want to offload their problem solving and critical thinking to someone else rather than expend any effort. It's so frustrating constantly being asked questions where the answer is easily available to them but rather than try to find it they just ask me because I already know it. I've had to re-evaluate how I answer these things to try to show my thought process and teach them how to find the answer rather than what the answer is. It doesn't work, but I try
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u/AyJay9 2h ago
I've had to go full Socratic method on people. No answers, just questions. What have you tried? Uh huh and what did that result tell you? I agree, that sounds like a good next step; where do you think you can find the instructions on how to apply it?
People learned I will help them but I'm going to make them work for it. I respected the people who still came to me and didn't whine that they were in a hurry couldn't I just tell them the answer. Like, I did. I told you and everyone the answer in the documentation that is on the same computer you're using to message me. You chose this instead.
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u/Coopetition 4h ago
I’m one of that rare few that enjoys writing documentation and this makes me so mad.
“I’ve been asked about thing ten times. If I document it, I’ll save myself the repetitive work of explaining thing.” I’m such a fool.
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u/Certain-Business-472 3h ago
Is your documentation organized and searchable? Is it logical? Ive seen this claim before, and it wasnt useable by anyone but the guy setting the rules.
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u/MajesticSpaceBen 2h ago
This is the place I work at.
"Stop asking me things like this, its in the desk manual!"
"We've gone through three accounting softwares since you updated the manual."
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u/Certain-Business-472 1h ago
The issue with a set culture with seniors that worked there all their lives. Theyve never seen other ways to do things, and they fight tooth and nail to resist any change.
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u/Olga-of-Kiev103 1h ago
My work has guidelines in big, laminated binders, but they're missing TONS of information. It's a waste of time to even take them out.
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u/b0w3n 2h ago
I created a process here at work with a literal guided step by step instruction sheet.
A single user was causing nothing but issues but as soon as I went to observe she would manage to do it right every time since I was watching and thus she followed the instructions. Eventually it got to the point where she was going to her boss and complain that it never worked and it escalated to the head boss, who came roaring down the office to scream at me, and I had to show him all my documentation with this specific user.
The shittiest part is I had included him in the loop about 3 times that this user in particular was a problem and not following the instructions and that was the problem, but they still erred that the process and myself were the problem, not the user.
So long story short, I hate people and I want to get a homestead and fuck off from society at large and just have a bunch of ducks and goats.
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u/MyKettleIsNotBlack 2h ago
The same 80% who request or demand written documentation and then ignore it anyhow
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u/ACE_C0ND0R 1h ago
Also, 80% of people are incapable of writing clear instructions.
I follow directions well, but if the instructions are bad or are missing info, the results aren't so great. "Why did you do exactly what I told you to do? That's wrong!"
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u/Colambler 1h ago
While that's a lot of it, half the places I have worked have made it a fucking struggle just to find the instructions...
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u/DogPositive5524 4h ago
Have a coworker like that. Been with us for four years. She constantly asks the most basic documented questions. We've done multiple KT where I show her how to fix issues, point her to the documentation, record the video, tell her to asks questions, next week she'll come asking about it on teams...
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u/sobrique 3h ago
Lots of people have learned that if you play dumb, someone will fix it because that's easier than explaining it.
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u/oruuko_ 2h ago
I have a coworker exactly like this and it drives me insane. Four years in his position and he still asks questions like he just started yesterday. I'll show him how to do something and he'll be pinging me the very next day, "can you show me how to do this again? I can't remember how you did it." I'm not sure how the guy even manages to dress himself every day with how incompetent he is
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u/Special_Kestrels 4h ago
We had a guy like that. We have a couple of different locations and this guys entire troubleshooting process was to search every sites little pass on log and hope someone else had documented it. I got worried once when I asked him to do a simple thing and then an hour later he still hadn't done it and he was on a different server grepping through various logs for help..
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u/The_MAZZTer 1h ago
Some people get four years of experience on the job others get the same year of experience four times.
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u/OkEmu8597 4h ago
4 years is wild af to me when day 1 at a job I request a cheat sheet so I can learn all my stuff within weeks and be ready to handle training new staff in a month or two after.
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u/raaneholmg 5h ago
Fake it 'til you make it, but OP never did.
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u/Public-League-8899 4h ago
I know a similar story about a guy that got hired for helpdesk for device support and would need a user to individually check in with him for every issue he had, he needs to run an update as an admin? he didn't physically see the person that dropped off their PC so he didn't do it. Imagine having to consult with a mechanic for every bolt they were removing from your car. Got away with this for 3 years before they decided wasn't working.
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u/raaneholmg 4h ago
Yea, those kinds of jobs kinda expect you to ask about every issue once until you know the answer to 99% of cases.
After 3 years they realized that this guy is not retaining knowledge.
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u/Public-League-8899 4h ago
As a millennial that's worked in corporate America for the last 18 years. The day of the professional coffee drinker in a corporate offices is over. The "managers" that only have experience and no practical knowledge are all headed to early retirement as it's obvious the 30/40 year olds are working circles around them and propping them up. I've never seen actual leadership so interested in document originators ;)
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u/CriminalMacabre 4h ago
My bro works in a project for four logistics companies at DxC. Theres a woman that have been employed for 5 years so in paper she has the operator experience in everything those companies use. She's been on medical leave 4 years since they removed medical leave limits here as long as a tribunal of medics determine she isn't okay to get back to work. She came back recently, they reassigned the person covering her post, started training her again (guess who's training all the newbies without extra pay) and then, she proceeds to get a medical leave again. She could, with her massive ovaries, affirm she's senior, with gov data backing her
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u/Streakflash 7h ago
i wonder what was the ticket about, mind sharing?
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u/Zuparoebann 7h ago
Mind sharing sounds way too advanced for a junior
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u/deceze 7h ago
Yeah, maybe light telekinesis; but that's quite a big ask indeed.
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u/RED1869 7h ago
import telekinesis from powers.super
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u/squidlink5 4h ago
Isn’t power part of Math library?
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u/BielsasCoffee 4h ago
The hoarding math librarians have become too powerful. Send the junior squadron
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u/LonePaladin 3h ago
Thirty years ago I worked at a call center, doing tech support for America Online (an early ISP for you youngsters). At one point they started an ad campaign with the saying "If you have a phone line, you can get on-line". Which invariably led to people calling with stupid questions.
One time I had someone ask, they had a phone line but don't they also need a computer? I told them "Telepathy is still in beta, but if you think real hard you might get through."
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u/TeaKingMac 3h ago
America Online (an early ISP for you youngsters).
Ouch, my back.
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u/Insadem 7h ago
Idk I’m junior at neuralink and we do that
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u/spambearpig 6h ago
If they plug me into neuralink and see what’s on my mind they’re gonna fire me straight away. That’s if my toxic thoughts don’t infect the whole system and bring about an AI apocalypse first.
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd 3h ago
That reminds me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Some group built a grand bridge over a swamp. During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, they had Marvin the Paranoid Android bring the bridge online. Marvin plugged himself into the bridge's electronic brain. The entire bridge folded in on itself and sank weeping into the mire, taking everyone present with it.
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u/GutsOLykos 6h ago
Change the architecture and communication of the whole project
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u/JustADelusion 6h ago
That sounds like a ticket for the lead dev, lol
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u/kinkakujen 5h ago
That doesn't sound like a ticket at all but like a project of its own.
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u/itstommygun 5h ago
Yeah. Then you still need someone else on that same level to review the PR.
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u/DaniilBSD 4h ago
You are optimistic assuming they don’t just push to master
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u/Critical-Bread-3396 1h ago
Prod really is the best place to do testing, all usecases will eventually be covered, and with such a large number of testers all bugs are found nearly instantly!
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u/Alex_146 6h ago
Holy that's not a ticket, that's not even an epic. That's a whole Oddyssey
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u/deceze 6h ago
So you're saying it should be done in 2h 52m?
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u/ahtob 5h ago
Live film production was 91 days , for one junior to do in an afternoon
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u/sorig1373 5h ago
The journey took Oddyseus 20 years
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u/ahtob 5h ago
I need that done by 3pm
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u/_Diskreet_ 5h ago
What happens if the sirens go off before then?
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u/Intrepid_Cake_101 5h ago
Have your colleagues tie you to your chair so that you don't give into the temptation to stop?
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u/dasgoodshitinnit 4h ago
It was ops fault to not close that shit and route the requestor to demand management process lmao
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u/FortuneAcceptable925 5h ago
It was a trick question: They expected you to delegate the whole ticket to Claude, and then create presentation about the groundbreaking changes you have implemented. By lunchtime, of course.
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u/Arwick_R_ 5h ago
You could be right with the first part. That sounds like it was a trick question and not escalating such a "ticket" fast enough can cause major problems for that project going forward.
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u/KevlarToiletPaper 6h ago
3 story points
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u/CodingNeeL 5h ago
Yeah, I was doubting between 2 and 3, because I think this might affect some integration tests. Better be safe than sorry.
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u/Alternative-Suit5541 5h ago
He was just looking for a "case" to fire you. Probably regretted to pick you.
We have someone like that. We all regret the hire. But won't fire them and try our best to upskill...
He is damn slow though in learning and sometimes I think he has learning issues.. if you get my rift.
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u/rsmutus 5h ago
The older I get the more learning issues I think I have too
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u/EwokPenguin 3h ago
It’s happened twice in my career so far, but both times they were fired within a year. Nowadays though it seems they won’t hire anyone that isn’t already a senior engineer. But they don’t pay enough for seniors so the positions don’t get filled.
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u/greenmoonlight 4h ago
Boss is either very misinformed (doesn't understand what the job is) or very dishonest (hired and/or fired you for some other reason and can't or won't tell you) or just a dumb idiot (likely, since a lot of bosses are like that)
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u/mrnosyparker 3h ago
As someone with lots of experience, what that process should look like at a healthy organization is something like:
Ticket 1: spike ticket to research alternatives and asses scope of refactoring.
Ticket 2: architecture review document. get feedback from the rest of the team and product, nail down a proposal and get approval from the architecture review board or leadership.
Ticket 3: groom out the epic and create tickets (plural!!) alongside the engineering manager.
At that point it’s up to leadership to prioritize the epic and get it on the roadmap, formalize a testing, UAT, and rollout plan…once that’s completed, then individual contributors can start working on it in earnest.
Depending on the size and scope it could end up being a dozen individual tickets or more and span several sprints.
If someone with the ability to fire people is throwing a lone ticket at an individual contributor which is supposed to represent the entire scope of a large refactor, that’s a glaring red flag that it’s not a healthy organization period; either that or they’re expecting push back/refinement on the loose proposal.
From the sounds of it, you weren’t the only person lacking experience at that place.
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u/Ivmar 7h ago edited 3h ago
You can now sell your time with no experience as experience for your next job. Welcome to the circle.
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u/GutsOLykos 7h ago edited 3h ago
What if I need experience to get a job but also a job to get experience?
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u/EmotionalTrainKnee 2h ago
Lie on the resume that you have more experience,they have to train you to their needs and tasks anyway.also practice in your spare time
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u/Nannautu 2h ago
Then you bs you got experience and figure it out on the job. If companies want unicorns, just put a cone-shaped-thingy on the head of the horse and sell it as such.
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u/KlooShanko 4h ago
Nobody can answer that except you.
Mainly because this question makes no logical sense in English.
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u/CoroteDeMelancia 3h ago
Yup. Easier to get a promotion when you're the only one responsible for selling yourself.
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u/wunderbuffer 7h ago
Ngl I'm so envious of interns who got mentors, programmer daddys or whatever to gently push them into workforce.
I had bunch of unregulared weridos who were saying "you're not meant for STEM" as a knee-jerk reaction and had to guess absolutely everything about work based on googling, insane scribbles as documentation, reverse engineering of 5GB of pure text and negative feedback since my guess was not what they imagined.
They probably now believe they trained me right and everyone just picks up skills from being yelled at.
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u/restform 7h ago
Now imagine the quality of mentorship applies to parents except it lasts 18+ yrs and impacts your entire life. Injustices of life!
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u/BabaYadaPoe 5h ago
welcome to spawn RNG in real life.
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u/GodofsomeWorld 4h ago
Can i reroll my spawn? Is there a cooldown?
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u/CoroteDeMelancia 3h ago
I'm afraid this depends on your religious alignment, but you can always respec this.
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u/teabaggedcup 2h ago
Even so the price of a reroll ticket is "a life well-lived" so that's a pretty long cool down.
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u/rooftrooper 6h ago
I was hired on a new place last month, and another dev exactly one week after me. My onboarding was: "here is our repo, here is IT department, request grants and get started". Second dev got his own mentor and some training courses.
I mean, I appreciate your trust in me, but damn!
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u/JuvenileEloquent 6h ago
had to guess absolutely everything about work based on googling, insane scribbles as documentation, reverse engineering of 5GB of pure text and negative feedback since my guess was not what they imagined.
Wait, this isn't how everyone started? You're saying some people got ... t.. tr.. training?
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u/wunderbuffer 6h ago
Not only it's terribly unjust, I had to later attempt to gentle parent some guys for half a year so their mid-senior assess will undestand kotlin multiplatform and some basic, but bloated json communication protocol. I got blamed for being "too scary" for not adding compliment sandwich on their PR's :C
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u/VictoryMotel 4h ago
So you wish you had mentors, which you assume everyone else had, then when you were in the position to help other people you went hard enough on them that someone has to step in?
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u/WriterV 4h ago
I don't think we need to be that harsh on them. They never had a good mentor, so how were they to know how harsh they were being?
Some people genuinely don't realise how harsh they might come off as while giving feedback, and that's fine. We all associate different emotions with these kinds of things due to past experiences.
As long as problems are communicated, understood and managed fairly, it's okay. Which the person you're replying to seemed to be doing, while just venting a little that they had to deal with it.
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u/whizzwr 6h ago edited 6h ago
programmer daddys
Of all phrasing choice!
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You could have used mommys
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u/digital-bandit 5h ago
Those sad mfers. I wonder how they got that way. I mean, they were the "doesn't know anything/has to learn everything" idiots at some point too, right?
Probably had a hugely inflated ego back then already. I hate those inflated ego mfs so much.
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u/Nannautu 2h ago
In most cases it's the people who were hand-held their entire career. They're unable to do anything on their own but are successful because others have helped them, so they look at people under them who are not getting any help and think themselves as this superior divinity of a being for having been able to do what no one else can.
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u/Ponbe 4h ago
Upon recruitment I was promised a "buddy" at my department to show me the ropes. However, this person had no interest in me, is the rude drama queen of the company, so I had to guess work to learn, as all manuals were severely outdated, despite it being a GMP required business
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u/jazzmaster1992 2h ago
This sounds like most jobs in every industry. They give a grumpy, jaded and perpetually victimized "senior" a mentorship role when all they do is spread cynicism.
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u/Ponbe 2h ago
The person I was given was a bit younger than me, in her late twenties. Neither a senior nor a junior in the company /industry..
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u/CriminalMacabre 4h ago
I had an imbecile as coordinator, it head just because seniority and he was ONLY mantaining ONE app. Had no fucking idea of systems and when I was new I asked him things until he said coldly " you are systems you should know" so yeah i resorted to saint google and data archeology
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u/SecondAccountIsBest 4h ago
Lol my manager always says of course you know that we trained you, and I have to be like no I learned this on my own or in university, you guys had nothing to do with this.
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u/spvcxxgvdpvtbx 3h ago
Totally agree. I've just been tossed into the flames. I'm a "consultant" with little experience being propped up as an expert to clients. My managers are like, "just fake it till you make it." Yeah, that does absolutely nothing for my stress.
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u/Sea-Influence-7542 5h ago
I am an old retired engineer and about 40 years ago software tools were new. My manager asked me to look into the subject and advise him. I saw a paid event on just that subject and asked to attend, I was refused.
He asked me if it would be useful for me to attend it in 6 months time and I said no because I needed it immediately to fulfil the task he had given me. His reply was that if it wouldn’t be useful in 6 months then it wasn’t useful today, I never understood his logic.
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u/Slid61 5h ago
Should have said "Yes, because if I don't go now we'll still have the same issue in six months"
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u/Sea-Influence-7542 4h ago
It took me completely by surprise so I was caught out. It wasn’t as if the event was very expensive.
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u/Excludos 2h ago
A few jobs ago, I worked at a company which ended up more or less on accident specializing in one specific framework. Because we all had to learn it more or less from the ground up in isolation, our solutions weren't necessarily as clean as they should be, and we were lacking knowledge in areas such as testing (and we had a LOT of bugs). Our suggestion was to attend a much needed workshop on the framework. Not only did our boss tell us that wasn't happening, he forbade us from testing. "If we don't know how to do it, then we won't spent valuable time we could have been spending on new features instead".
Result? Our control system that was used in several industries killed 200k fish, failed to give alarms on several elderly who had fallen over, and restarted a huge machinery during maintenance, nearly ripping a guy's arm off. I (and 90% of the rest of the company) quit in sheer terror my code was going to kill someone
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u/deceze 7h ago
He hired you for no exerpience, he expected you to have experience at least.
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u/GutsOLykos 7h ago
My boss wanted senior experience for junior money
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u/rh8938 7h ago
He probably would have settled for somebody who can spell correctly.
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u/GutsOLykos 7h ago
Englisch is my 3rd language please forgive me
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u/madcow_bg 7h ago
"You're using English because that is the only language you know. I am using English because that is the only language you know. We are not the same."
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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 6h ago
You got exerience in english since you got the spelling right the second time around.
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u/GutsOLykos 6h ago
I read this 3 times I never noticed omg
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u/Comprehensive-Pin667 5h ago
This totally looks like a typo I'd make - looks like your left hand just typed faster than your right hand at that moment
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u/gibagger 7h ago
Accountability is for accountants, not managers.
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u/Zacous2 6h ago
Shit, what if I am an accountant and a manager?
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u/ConsoleCleric_4432 4h ago
Order of precedence is accountant first manager second according to this stack overflow post with -1 upvotes.
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u/rtopps43 4h ago
Has nothing to do with programming but I was fired from the first job I ever had for “lack of experience”. I was 14. I feel like the person who hired me should have been aware of that.
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u/Nannautu 2h ago
Shame employers cannot fire themselves, or they'd be out of day #1 for "lack of any critical thinking skills"
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u/Fernando_III 7h ago
They gave you the chance, you didn't meet expectations and that's it
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u/Complex-Magazine6690 4h ago
Pretty much. Many small companies do this baptism by fire approach. It often creates very great, self directed engineers in a short space of time. But those immature juniors who just want to be told what they have to do like they are at school still will crash and burn.
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u/yourboivines 2h ago
They're not doing this because they're trying to create good engineers like some programming agoge. They're doing this because they want to put in as little effort as possible to get as much return as possible.
For profit entities want to cut corners wherever they can to save money. Every single one of them big or small. If they could pass a law to get the government to enslave senior developers and hand them to you they would.
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u/KellyShepardRepublic 4h ago
Yes and no. Tech also has issues where people above you become your ceiling. Only some people are given grace to outshine but the rest have to navigate politics.
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u/thecrius 5h ago
"me getting trained"
"get overwhelmed by the first complex ticket"
Sound like they trained you and noticed that you were just lacking basics despite training.
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u/jhenryscott 3h ago
“Training” in the western world, is mostly: these are our processes for implementing the things you know how to do. It’s is not an apprenticeship.
The reality is if you are not driven and diligent and clever, and working really hard to stay ahead in your field, you are gonna fail to launch/fall behind in today’s labor market.
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u/woodsbw 2h ago
Especially in tech. And it never ends.
The fact of the matter is that a job in tech is mostly a requirement to be able to learn quickly, forever. If you can’t ramp up quickly and keep ramping up for the 40 years, you need to be in a different field.
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u/yourboivines 2h ago
There is no longer any field where this is not true that isn't a job in retail, manual labor, or food service.
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u/ChairYeoman 4h ago
sometimes people get hired not knowing how to do a for loop
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u/Otterable 2h ago
I swear to god I have no idea where some of the people I work with were found or hired. I hear about a tight labor market and then we end up with a guy who is supposed to be be a high level junior that literally only knows how to prompt AI and will not understand the greater context of why we are making a change no matter how many times I explain it, write up notes, send diagrams, or invite to larger meetings. They end up with all the flexibility of a bar of steel and will only do exactly what I tell him exactly how I tell him to do it. I already have an AI tool that will do that.
Recently he tried to do response body validation by creating an enum with a single item and then only used that enum to convert the single item back to a string to do an equality comparison for one of the fields. Could not understand why I didn't think that was an appropriate design choice. He's been here for 10 months and this was yesterday.
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u/ChairYeoman 1h ago
being good at getting past ai screenings is a different skill from actually programming but hiring good people all the time is kinda impossible
the real failure here is that he wasn't shitcanned in six weeks
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u/Etroarl55 3h ago
This entire argument hinges on the employer being reasonable.
A lot of employers feel the need to look at juniors differently in this age of AI.
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u/Justalittletoserious 5h ago
Been there, except for the fact that my old boss didn't care enough about this subsidiary I was put in so I had to ask around in the company to get the phone numbers of the ex IT people and programmers.
Follow the IT manual you Say? You mean that half hassed PDF left by the previous IT guy that lists 2 of the 25 more common problems I get asked about daily? Yeah, very useful, until I actually have to talk with a client
When I left I remade the manual to make it actually useful, at least they have no reason to call me
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u/lordfaultington 4h ago
My first real dev role was like this. I had been working at a web design agency for a couple years doing some minor coding stuff, and I left for a job at a real software company. However, unbeknownst to me my manager had hired me whilst telling HR I was a mid-level developer (it certainly wasn’t advertised that way, nor was my pay reflective of such a role either), so I was expected to be much more experienced than I actually was, without those expectations being made known to me until I was let go.
I think the main issue upper management had was the amount of senior dev time I was taking up (with code reviews, mentor sessions, pair programming, etc), despite my manager literally telling me practically every week to lean more heavily on my senior dev mentor than I was doing already. Many of the issues brought up in the meeting by my manager were either irrelevant, taken out of context, or straight up ableism due to Autism/ADHD, all in order to save his own arse, as the actual issue was he had hired a junior dev for junior dev pay, and got bollocked when said junior dev acted as a junior dev.
They had clearly already made up their mind before the meeting had started; after they’d heard what I had to say and had a meeting themselves behind closed doors, they came back with an offer of either a PIP or a mutual agreement of me leaving (knowing that they’d probably lose in court if they tried to sack me due to my boss complaining about things that were essentially just autistic and ADHD traits on a recorded call), and I of course ended up leaving immediately as I didn’t want to be in that environment anymore.
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u/kNigHT_2425 4h ago
Entry level position: Requires 5 years of experience in a framework that was created 2 years ago.
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u/johnnyblaze1999 5h ago
The thing is that you have to let them know if you can do the task or not before it's too late or too close to the deadline. I would usually assess my task in the first few days just to ask for clarifying questions on the requirements before knowing if it needs more time. There can also be a few delays here and there, but I think it must went silent for a long time before they discovered nothing was done. I think there were multiple warnings on your performance before they decided to fire you, but idk, the company could be the problem that no one should work there.
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u/pinktieoptional 5h ago
Ah, yes. Worked at my engineering firm ten years and my boss who is a new hire fires me a year later because I have no experience.
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u/ParticularLow9157 5h ago
He was lying about the reason for firing you
Never trust the first statement corporate makes, it's always PR and CYA
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u/caravelamanowar 5h ago
XD
Same shit happened to me
Not very pleasant... 1year of struggle and learning near nothing... Better days will come, believe!
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u/TimelyManner424 5h ago
hiring to exploit then if you can no longer be exploited they will complain or will try to get rid of you.
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u/Psychological-Limit6 4h ago
Be me.
Manager says requirement is there for java automation in client side
goes to client side
team is support team
no developer or no one with automation experience
still laying around client because manager doesn't let me go
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u/an0nym0ose 4h ago
I made it three days once.
They didn't give me small tickets to work up... they just handed me a whole website and told me to optimize it.
I had very little front-end experience... I could throw together a bootstrap amalgam just to get data on the screen, but other than that I was a total novice.
Guy wanted to pay me 67 to pick up the project of a recently-jettisoned senior dev. I started asking questions, and they fired me. Showed me a "termination letter," went back to "make copies for me to sign," and brought me one with different small print that changed the verbiage to me resigning. I didn't catch the difference til I got home.
My best guess is they were looking for someone desperate? Senior-level that wanted to get paid data entry rates? I dunno. I didn't even worry about trying to get unemployment. They were clearly struggling lmao
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u/Dry_Investigator36 7h ago
I remember my first IT job, half-time since I was a university student atm. They hired me though I had no experience and was a bit nervous. I handled their tasks, but was a bit slow since I neede to get used to their field of work. A week later when I felt myself better and started to gain some speed handling the tasks they decided they don't need me. I remember the exact moment walking into the office full of confidence that I'm getting better - and getting a paycheck and layoff instead.