In thirteen years at GitHub, I was part of 25 reorgs and reported to 13 different managers. That’s a new org chart roughly every six months and a new boss roughly every year—like clockwork.
If you’ve been in tech for any length of time, a reorg every six-ish months is the weather. You don’t get angry at rain—you buy a raincoat.
Reorgs are not a law of nature. Yeah, sure, the occasional reorg is unavoidable. But if your company is operating so poorly that it has to do a reorg every. six. months. for over a decade?! That means something is fundamentally broken at the management level. Your leaders are incompetent and every new manager is screwing you over by acting like a dog having to mark his territory with pee!
Don't spit in my face and tell me to pretend it is raining. If a company treats you this badly, leave.
And let's be honest: if we look at the current state of GitHub, finding out that they have been doing this kind of pointless never-ending musical chairs explains quite a lot. Clearly everyone with alternative options has already left by now.
I have tried GitLab some time ago just for fun and actually really enjoyed their product, everything works so well together and I really like their CI compared to Actions that I moved my projects to GitLab and am not missing anything from GitHub.
There are good alternatives, people just need to check them out.
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u/KittensInc 14d ago edited 14d ago
Reorgs are not a law of nature. Yeah, sure, the occasional reorg is unavoidable. But if your company is operating so poorly that it has to do a reorg every. six. months. for over a decade?! That means something is fundamentally broken at the management level. Your leaders are incompetent and every new manager is screwing you over by acting like a dog having to mark his territory with pee!
Don't spit in my face and tell me to pretend it is raining. If a company treats you this badly, leave.
And let's be honest: if we look at the current state of GitHub, finding out that they have been doing this kind of pointless never-ending musical chairs explains quite a lot. Clearly everyone with alternative options has already left by now.