Biden’s policy “wins” always sound like when my boss makes me write performance review bullet points for myself when I haven’t finished a damn project all year, so it’s a bunch of “spearheaded exploratory efforts to design and implement _______” and “provided technical expertise for [re-]architecture of ______” bullshit that, in the end, amounts to “I tried but you motherfuckers wouldn’t let me because you hurled 80% of the team’s support tickets my way without even attempting to share those efforts amongst the other devs,” except Genocide Joe doesn’t even have that excuse.
Burned-out nerd rant
I’m not even joking about the support workload vs. time spent on project work shit. Case in point, I finished modernizing a fairly critical process last August and it still hasn’t been promoted to our Prod environment because the primary stakeholder has been “too busy” to sign off on it. The usual turnaround for something like that is like a week or two, tops, and none of the core functionality even changed. It was about 75% throwaway work when they requested it two years ago, and it’s probably getting chucked out at the end of next quarter. Love burning 160+ labor hours on cleaning up coworkers’ garbage-tier code just to be able to extend a piece of software without breaking a bunch of other shit, all because the middle management fiefdom think that “160 hour estimate” means “it will be done in exactly one month” and don’t even question why a “trivial” change has a one-labor-month estimate tacked onto it.
I can’t believe that I’ve lasted as long as I have at this place. Turnover under my previous supervisor was a huge red flag right out of the gate, but at least he has moved over to a different section to go be a disorganized, out-of-touch bougie doofus over there. The damage is already done, though, both in terms of toxic team/org dynamics and my own mental health.
Biden’s policy “wins” always sound like when my boss makes me write performance review bullet points for myself when I haven’t finished a damn project all year, so it’s a bunch of “spearheaded exploratory efforts to design and implement _______” and “provided technical expertise for [re-]architecture of ______” bullshit that, in the end, amounts to “I tried but you motherfuckers wouldn’t let me because you hurled 80% of the team’s support tickets my way without even attempting to share those efforts amongst the other devs,” except Genocide Joe doesn’t even have that excuse.
Burned-out nerd rant
I’m not even joking about the support workload vs. time spent on project work shit. Case in point, I finished modernizing a fairly critical process last August and it still hasn’t been promoted to our Prod environment because the primary stakeholder has been “too busy” to sign off on it. The usual turnaround for something like that is like a week or two, tops, and none of the core functionality even changed. It was about 75% throwaway work when they requested it two years ago, and it’s probably getting chucked out at the end of next quarter. Love burning 160+ labor hours on cleaning up coworkers’ garbage-tier code just to be able to extend a piece of software without breaking a bunch of other shit, all because the middle management fiefdom think that “160 hour estimate” means “it will be done in exactly one month” and don’t even question why a “trivial” change has a one-labor-month estimate tacked onto it.
I can’t believe that I’ve lasted as long as I have at this place. Turnover under my previous supervisor was a huge red flag right out of the gate, but at least he has moved over to a different section to go be a disorganized, out-of-touch bougie doofus over there. The damage is already done, though, both in terms of toxic team/org dynamics and my own mental health.
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