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United States of Minecraftia wrote:

At me or at my post?

no, the secret third thing standing behind you

Another ploy by the Swiftie deep state elites to take away the common man’s choice

Cekan wrote:

The fact that Cekan is not #1 proves to me that the vote was rigged

Let's storm Kath's mom's house in protest

United States of Minecraftia wrote:

At me or at my post?

Yes

Hock22 wrote:

Max Barry apparently says no

Well Max Barry can su–

GATITanisTAN wrote:

One of the most prominent arguments against Moldovan reunification with Romania is that Moldovan cousin marriages would have to be dissolved under Romanian marriage law.

damn woke romania and their anti incest marriage laws

Hock22 wrote:

Cekan so how’s your side of the tech industry holding up

Uhhh, it’s been pretty rough. Around thanksgiving they laid off like half the people in my office. I’m still here but not really too happy about it because I don’t really get along with my new manager, I don’t really enjoy what I do, and I feel underpaid for how much I contribute. Finding a new job is super rough though, my job is a lot of work but not the kind that makes me an attractive candidate, no one’s hiring right now and there’s a lot of competition. I’m thinking I might just ride it out for now and maybe take some Coursera courses or something to upskill.

On the plus side, next week I get to go to Los Angeles for a week for work which will be interesting.

You?

Midland South States wrote:

enshittification comes for all our workplaces it seems

Yeah, ask me 2-3 years ago and I would have told you I never wanted to leave. When I interned here in 2018 my goal after graduation was to come back full time because I liked it so much.

Hock22 wrote:

I remember the layoffs, that sucks. While I don't know your exact situation, my personal advice would be to quiet quit if you can get away with it. Layoffs really have nothing to do with how much you contribute, you can work yourself to the bone and still get f*cked. Unless you have a goal of getting promoted and making more money, I've never found the stress of extra hours worth it. I log on at 8:30, off by 4:45. One hour lunch break. I'll put some extra time in here and there, but never go above and beyond. Good performance reviews and gotten raises. And work on that emergency fund. I have a 12 month fund and it is a massive stress reducer. Just gotta get through tech turndown. Have you applied for any jobs?

As for me, I like the work environment and my team, but hate the product, and the company that acquired us a year ago is slowly taking away benefits and does not allow promotions, period. Yep, BS. The product is an ancient EHR software written in the late 90's/early 2000's entirely in C++, which I don't remotely understand. There's barely any documentation, and all the knowledge is stuck inside people's heads who have worked here for 20+ years. I luckily work in the newer (as in past 15 years) parts in C# and Angular, but still have to interact with the C++ which is like reading hieroglyphics. And there's the constant specter of layoffs because we are a public company and having issues with profitability.

I actually just applied for a state software engineering job in Delaware. I think I may have a pretty good chance because I have worked for the state before (state parks), and the position is in the capitol, which is in central delaware where no one wants to move because its rural. Pension, amazing health care benefits, tons of vacation and sick time, great work life balance, rock solid job security. Less pay, but I'd rather take the security. And housing is much better down there. Fingers crossed.

I told my manager that my previous manager promised me a promotion before he was laid off and that I think I deserve it since I do way more than the engineers at that level. People above me in level come to me to ask questions more often than I ask people above me questions. My team lead has been here for almost 2 years and has contributed a whopping 50 lines of code over that period and uses her kid as an excuse to show up at 11 AM and leave at 4 almost daily. She literally schedules meetings in the morning and then shows up to work 2 hours after the scheduled time. Not to mention I have done most or all of her job responsibilities in addition to my own throughout her time here because she can’t. Our new hire that hasn’t been here even a year is more knowledgeable and productive. It’s all the more annoying because so many people in my department are completely useless (one coworker took like 6 months of vacation last year and works on her side hustles at work instead of doing her job) which is making my management come down on people, demanding to know daily what were doing and what hours we’re in the office every day. I get a lot done even though I don’t usually work a full 8 hours (what kind of programmer works 8 straight hours and stays productive the whole time) but it’s annoying to be dragged into it by other people being useless. It honestly kind of shocks me that these people somehow kept their jobs and it infuriates me that they make way more than I do.

I’ve applied to a bunch of jobs but haven’t heard from most of them though, I actually went through a couple rounds of interviews at AWS for an infrasec job but didn’t make it to the final round. I’ve also interviewed with other teams at the same company, still waiting to hear on those but I’m not confident because I think I did terrible in the interview (I’ve only done like 15 interviews in my life so pretty inexperienced doing them). My overall goal would be to try to get my foot in the door at a FAANG type company (or whatever the acronym is these days) since once you have one on your resume it’s a lot easier to get hired elsewhere.

/rant

Hope you get that job, it sounds like it would be a good fit. I’m kind of surprised there’s cheap housing/rural areas in general in Delaware honestly

Hock22 wrote:

Sounds like the layoffs were mostly senior individuals or people in the higher end of their pay bands. Just some finance guy going down a list of numbers.

No one works the full eight hours regularly. I’ve done it a few times when I’ve found what I’ve been working on to be interesting and was ‘wired’, but observing myself and other developers, the average person works 4-6 hours a day.

Surprised you want to go work at FAANG. Suppose it varies by company and department but all I ever hear is about people being worked into the ground. That resume booster and the pay are nice, but idk. Wish you all the luck if that’s the route you want to go

Definitely wasn’t just based on pay, half of my friends also got laid off even though they are at the same level as me. Funny enough two of them got rehired since they realized they still needed them and were able to leverage big pay raises.

Yeah, I don’t think I would mind the long hours. I don’t really have much of a life outside of work anyway and I don’t think I’d mind working longer if it doubled my salary. And I feel like I would learn a ton, in my current position I feel like there’s basically no room for growth and no one to learn from. It’s frustrating talking to my work friends who work with technologists who are literal geniuses, like some of the best in the field, on a daily basis, who mentor them and give insight on problem solving. I don’t have that in my position.

Hey guys, anyone ever notice that Crumstain’s name kinda looks like cumstain?

Hock22 wrote:

Hey guys, anyone ever notice that Crumstain’s name kinda looks like cumstain?

Oh hey now that you mention it, your name kinda looks like cock. New headcanon ship thanks

Crumstain wrote:

(Oh no, I hope my long lasting ruse doesn't get foiled finally. If that were to be unveiled, my whole existence will be ruined! I might have to do something drastic, like Norpost like nobody has Norposted before!)

we will norpost so hard that we won't even need our other 2 members to get banned