• 0 Posts
  • 9 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

help-circle





  • Those are really stupid managers.

    If you don’t have docs it’s a tough competition between having your more knowledgeable devs re-explaining what they know X times to X new hires, or letting new devs figure it out on their own which is both costly in terms of their time and more importantly, risky as hell.

    Bad managers love risk though. Since it usually is a choice between speed now and risk later, it only blows up in your face later, and quite spectacularly, and everyone looks like heroes while they are putting fires out on overtime.

    That said good managers probably don’t tolerate that shit from bad managers under them and can sniff out a firefighter culture pretty quick.

    I guess what I meant to say was, managers that value doc do exist. If they really do, they’ll let you know.




  • That said, working from home has so far saved me a lot of both time and money. This is a thing to consider as an employee when considering who to work for (or if your boss takes it away, if you still want to work there after essentially having a benefit revoked unilateraly).

    Public transit pass. Actual time for transit which for me was around 90 minutes a day (7.5 hours a week!), more complex lunch logistics (time or money), etc.

    A quieter workplace, no need to book rarely available rooms to take calls/meetings. There were upsides.

    My first remote job had almost no issues at all. We already knew each other and we still took time to discuss issues via calls. New job not so much. We tend to be pressed for time so only focus on obvious “work” and then works suffers because of a lack of communication/common vision.