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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You sound like a middle manager that brings a net loss to your workplace and justifies their job as crucial because without you, the coders would all be running around the office slamming into each other like 2 year olds.

Coding is the only job. Period. The rest is housekeeping. Much like digging a ditch. It’s not going to get dug if you sit around talking about logistics and reviewing all the other ditches or wasting my time telling me again and again how the ditch needs to be dug. Nor needing hourly updates on how the ditch is coming along, so you can arbitrarily make changes.

If you think I “just don’t get it”, then that totally explains your irrelevance in the work place. Because companies have long lost their way and have prioritized the structure well beyond what they are actually meant to do: get shit done. But then you sound like the type that believes companies are crucial to our success because they funnel money back into the economy and keep society afloat (narrator: they don’t), so I’ll say good day to you sir.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you want to do the software equivalent of digging a ditch that's cool, but I'm not sure why you would expect to get an engineer's salary for doing so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Hey I’ve schedule a 2h Slack meeting to discuss this topic more. Please confirm your availability 🙃