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Murrah posted:almost certain this is incorrect but it is still a widely held belief around the place culturally. Every actual example I have looked at its been the case that the person could have been fired with even a basic amount of process, like one performance review meeting and then a follow up to cross all the t's but maybe your jurisdiction is really actually different ? He cited employee protection laws. It's almost certainly not an at-will state, probably not even the US at all 
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Subjunctive posted:“Employer” protection laws, actually, which I at first took as wry commentary but then decided was just a typo. Reading it in context helps  1 month is stricter than Norway even, quite impressive.
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Hiring can be a ballache, yeah.
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Unlimited vacation time is just a more recent beancounter trick to gently caress people over. Unless the policy also includes a mandatory minimum of vacation days spent in a year.
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That sounds pretty decent for a capitalist hellhole
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We use Excel sheets to generate a ton of repetitive PLC code (think input/output/SCADA mapping etc). Works out pretty drat well for the most part, and reduces the error rate significantly in the process.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This happened at one of my previous gigs. "I QUIT" on a cake. She had to keep trying to keep her coworkers (self included) from eating it until her boss arrived to read it. That's epic. I'm stealing that idea.
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cynic posted:Anything less than an Ivana, people get lazy. Not gonna lie, I read that name as Ivanova at first...
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May 11, 2019 02:27
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Does it matter what tool they use as long as they get the point across well enough? Mockups are just that, mockups. No one gives a gently caress as long as they do their job.
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"future you will hate yourself for this ugly hack"
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Further cementing the opinion that statistics == lies.
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Munkeymon posted:Take a four hour lunch, Queen, it'll be good for your sanity Not emptyquoting.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Congrats! In my experience and from what I hear by actually Talking To People In Real Life, there's plenty of these great jobs around, it's just, there's not much to Discuss On The Internet if everything goes well, so the people complaining in this thread day in day out are actually the small minority that have something to complain about. The bit about USA seems fairly accurate from pretty much everyone I've talked to who work and live in the US
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Keetron posted:Weirdest thing tho is that the best dev manager I had so far was from Brazil working in a US company while we are all located in socialist Europe. Now that is weird
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Sleep hygiene and coffee intake are very closely related... I've generally had 4-8 cups of coffee every day for the last few years (at the office, anyway), but I'm cutting back now because my sleep pattern is all kinds of hosed. I don't really need more than a cup or two in the morning anyway, so there's no point in self-sabotaging more than I have to
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Lumpy posted:I had a job once where I had to commute 22 minutes. Never again. So 23 or 21 minutes is fine, but not 22?
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shrike82 posted:i think many (most?) dev teams would be more productive if you actually reduced their "effort" whether in hours or work items That's socialist! /s
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shrike82 posted:Employers do take advantage of your "pride in work" to get you to work under unreasonable conditions. That is the drat truth. Also re: unlimited PTO and not taking enough time off: set aside vacation blocks in your calendar and take on slightly less work (if possible) so you're not creating a bow wave. That being said - you sometimes have to let things go and let other people deal with poo poo falling into their laps for things to change Or they might not change, which is a good indicator that you should get the gently caress out.
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This week, I'm the bad PM.
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Eeh, there's always draw.io?
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Lord Of Texas posted:Ask to pair program with an experienced team member. Everyone is guilty of this. We use pair programming as a teaching tool, it works really well for us.
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Queen Victorian posted:I left a toxic job and am coming up six months at the new nontoxic job and I’m still quite happy so either the honeymoon period is really long or it’s really just a good job that pays me well and where non-assholes respect and value my work. Get back in your pod!
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smackfu posted:Has anyone worked at a big company that acquired a small company and then had to deal with the small company’s senior developers not handling it well? Yeah. Big fish, small pond syndrome?
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rjmccall posted:As is "large company buys small company and has no idea what to do with it". "We thought we knew what we bought, but oh god were we wrong", liberal quote from the CEO of the mothership a few months after the acquisition. The last couple of years has been quite a journey. Volmarias posted:If it makes you feel better, the best indicator is a high level of pedantry. 
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itt: gently caress threads
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Are you sure it wasn't just beginner's luck?
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I somehow broke something in 2014 that we just found out a couple of days ago. Said code has been running in production that whole time. Woops.
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Paolomania posted:Another alternative is to send the document around for asynchronous comment without a meeting. I still can't get people to answer more than one direct question per mail, so yeah about that
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prom candy posted:As our junior has gotten more experienced I've had to check myself on this more often when doing code review. Like is my way objectively better, or just a different way that I would've done it. I've gone through something similar the half year or so, with fresh eyes on old problems leading to different (and sometimes better) solutions than I would have come up with. I've got about 7 years of experience in a pretty narrow field, so it was humbling at first. I decided early on to leave my ego at the door during those discussions and just look at the objective facts. It has helped me become a better engineer, and our customer is super happy 
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About time to have a chat about expectations and feedback?
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Protocol7 posted:You ever get a feeling that today just is gonna be one of those days? It's Monday. I'm waiting for an offer letter from $newjob so I can tell my current employer to gently caress off. This feeling has only intensified as I got one of Those emails from my manager this morning about timesheets of all things.
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prom candy posted:I'm doing some freelance work for a former boss right now. It's good to keep those relationships going if you like the people. Especially if you're like me and have a consumer electronics habit you need to pay for. That's a big if I quoted $300 per hour, 8 hours minimum billable to $shitjob as a joke the other day, if they take me up on it I'll correct it to $500 per hour, same minimum. gently caress those people. That said, they also completely bungled the communication setup on a large infrastructure project after I left, so...
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mitztronic posted:Welp I just got my new machine for my new job, and it appears to be a (used?) MacBook pro from 2019. New role is a senior software position, I’m a little confused about it. The hiring manager said they just got M1s, I was looking forward to trying one out. I got a used W530 when I started at a company in late 2013. It was fine.
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cum jabbar posted:I think the best candidates communicate well and will use opportunities to say what they want you to hear. The way you ask questions can facilitate that. I like these: This is solid advice.
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$newjob added me to the Enterprise Architecture Forum a month or so ago, one of my friends who's a high-level Systems Architect recommended looking into TOGAF, and I guess I have a lot of reading to do For the moment they're happy to have a representative from the operational side, but it would be nice to know what I'm doing 
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Sagacity posted:I'm sure an organisation trying to sell certifications is definitely the best source of information regarding software architecture. Did someone kick you into the cynic bath this morning? 
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Protocol7 posted:Or, hear me out, people should be allowed to turn on their camera at their own comfort level. It doesn't need to be any more complex than that. Basically this. I use a photo from my boat as my video background
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Bongo Bill posted:A great way to gain experience is by loving up a lot and then going back and figuring out why you hosed up. Learning by doing (lots of stupid poo poo)
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ploots posted:Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call Time to 
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