I implied a race, which more or less means that I know I will be replaced...it's a question of relative costs and risks. Some employers like to act like they have _all_ the power. Clients are better than employers in that respect.
Job hopping has had different meanings over the decades, is always in the eye of the beholder. 20 year, one company chumps would likely call us all 'job hoppers'.
There are bosses who only employ bad negotiators and/or head cases. They are best avoided. Burn that bridge _before_ you cross it.
Agile as implemented is usually scrum...which is a waste of time by design. Good teams can get results with any formal methodology, usually despite it.
The problem with agile is management ignores things like 'people over process' and 'hire competent, enthusiastic individuals' and only follow 'ship often' and 'talk to the client a lot'. Using agile as justification for constant spec drift and little thought going into the spec in the first place.
When someone claims they are 'agile' you should inquire further. The 'hire competent enthusiastic individuals' line has implications. Those people don't work for cheap. If a place is paying 'industry average', they aren't doing agile.
It lets them see what gets done invisibly the rest of the year.
Most people afraid to take vacation are afraid the boss will learn just how _little_ they actually do. Even worse, that the boss will see the office work much better without them, as they are 'net negative' anti-workers.
Take your vacation. You will be more productive after. Crispy devs not only get less done, but they make more mistakes, resulting in more rework and even worse, more crap in the live codebase to workaround.
I'll believe their is an actual dev shortage when they stop wasting so much of my time. Every goddamn day they burn hours on useless meetings. Email me the minutes and leave me to do actual work.
Daily 'standups'...just no. Daily email status reports to the project manager...takes 5 minutes.
Manager has reached his level of incompetence and knows it. Wants to surround himself with other incompetents (to hide among them). The key in that situation is to identify the 'king moron' (the one who started to herd of incompetents, likely hired your direct supervisor). If you can't possibly take over that role, the place is doomed and you should just use it to learn knew skills while looking for new work.
It's a corollary to the peter principle, whose name escapes me at the moment...'When a person has reached their level of incompetence, at some level they know it and proceed to surround themselves with even more incompetent people.' Common problem at older companies...again from the Peter principle...'the older the organization, the greater the number of incompetents at all levels.' 'Ranking and rating' was supposed to address this, so now old companies are full of people whose only skills are gaming R&R.
Only if you don't need the reference. It won't change a thing and will ruin the reference. Some shit managers only give bad refs on 'principle', in that case fuck him/her as hard as you can.
For most companies: Lie, lie, lie on the way out, just like they did to you on the way in. Don't burn that bridge.
Rule of 3s: If you've had 3 bosses with the same problem, it's not their problem, it's yours.
Either you are dealing with your bosses wrong, or you are working in the _wrong_ industry. FYI If you are working for an industry that makes pure commodities (e.g. life insurance), your boss will be a marketer and you will be seen as pure overhead.
You know the claim that a student could pay for an ivy league degree back then with a minimum wage job has been proven to be a complete lie? Utter bullshit.
Repeating it as a personal anecdote doesn't make it any more true.
Can't help but notice you grouping business majors with STEM. Business has traditionally been the 'not so hard' it interferes with hectic party schedules degree.
You also have to recognize that the lion's share of scam degrees are in STEM and Business. People unqualified in any 4 year program are routinely fleeced with 'job enhancing' degree programs. They belong in the local Jr college, but ended in Devry, University of Phoenix etc. I can't name a 'for profit' for academic standards for admission worth mentioning. Which isn't to say that motivated students can't learn in those programs, but even proud grads of those places have to admit that looking around the 'classroom' made them shake their heads.
Later in life, people fall for different scams. The * studies morons are mostly 18-22 and don't know anything yet.
20-30 years ago. most college degrees were already worthless certificates of attendance. Any job that accepts 'any 4 year college degree' is just looking for 'Middle class, white bread upbringing. Finishes long projects.'
It's cliche but true, kids get out what they put in. Most just want to party. There have always been degrees that a party hound can pass while not letting it interfere with living like 'Animal House'. Of course some party so hard, they don't even bother showing up for class. After a year (or three) of that, many schools suggest the student stop wasting his/her money. But if the kid insists, they will usually continue taking the money.
arsed too reply with speling and grammer correction?
Does anybody think those replies are 'to help'? Pitiful, self congratulatory, mental fapping. The middle schooler, desperate to show how smart (s)he is. Big words, half understood, that's the grammarian.
LOL, the only 20 year old MTD snowblowers are in Florida. MTD makes the _worst_ junk on the planet. They have to buy a new brand every 3-5 years because nobody buys the last one. With each new brand the letters 'MTD' are printed smaller and in more hard to see places.
20 years ago they had just started to learn how to be really 'toxic cheap'. Your snowblower is junk, but the new MTD is _even_ worse.
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I implied a race, which more or less means that I know I will be replaced...it's a question of relative costs and risks. Some employers like to act like they have _all_ the power. Clients are better than employers in that respect.
I squeeze back, it's the only solution.
Job hopping has had different meanings over the decades, is always in the eye of the beholder. 20 year, one company chumps would likely call us all 'job hoppers'.
There are bosses who only employ bad negotiators and/or head cases. They are best avoided. Burn that bridge _before_ you cross it.
Not how it worked out.
Boss: 'You can be replaced.'
Me: 'So can this job! Want to race?'
Boss says nothing...
Agile is a manifesto that is hard to argue with.
Agile as implemented is usually scrum...which is a waste of time by design. Good teams can get results with any formal methodology, usually despite it.
The problem with agile is management ignores things like 'people over process' and 'hire competent, enthusiastic individuals' and only follow 'ship often' and 'talk to the client a lot'. Using agile as justification for constant spec drift and little thought going into the spec in the first place.
When someone claims they are 'agile' you should inquire further. The 'hire competent enthusiastic individuals' line has implications. Those people don't work for cheap. If a place is paying 'industry average', they aren't doing agile.
The key lie that bosses at hellholes convince their employees is: It's like this everywhere.
It's just not true.
What if your afraid the boss will learn how little work you actually do?
It would suck to be gone for 4 weeks, and nobody noticed you were gone. Except you weren't there to complain all the time.
It lets them see what gets done invisibly the rest of the year.
Most people afraid to take vacation are afraid the boss will learn just how _little_ they actually do. Even worse, that the boss will see the office work much better without them, as they are 'net negative' anti-workers.
Take your vacation. You will be more productive after. Crispy devs not only get less done, but they make more mistakes, resulting in more rework and even worse, more crap in the live codebase to workaround.
I'll believe their is an actual dev shortage when they stop wasting so much of my time. Every goddamn day they burn hours on useless meetings. Email me the minutes and leave me to do actual work.
Daily 'standups'...just no. Daily email status reports to the project manager...takes 5 minutes.
Manager has reached his level of incompetence and knows it. Wants to surround himself with other incompetents (to hide among them). The key in that situation is to identify the 'king moron' (the one who started to herd of incompetents, likely hired your direct supervisor). If you can't possibly take over that role, the place is doomed and you should just use it to learn knew skills while looking for new work.
It's a corollary to the peter principle, whose name escapes me at the moment...'When a person has reached their level of incompetence, at some level they know it and proceed to surround themselves with even more incompetent people.' Common problem at older companies...again from the Peter principle...'the older the organization, the greater the number of incompetents at all levels.' 'Ranking and rating' was supposed to address this, so now old companies are full of people whose only skills are gaming R&R.
The organization was simple at the 'sabotage' level of process immaturity. The 'process immaturity model' is a useful lens to look at companies.
Only if you don't need the reference. It won't change a thing and will ruin the reference. Some shit managers only give bad refs on 'principle', in that case fuck him/her as hard as you can.
For most companies: Lie, lie, lie on the way out, just like they did to you on the way in. Don't burn that bridge.
Ah, the belief that all people put forth relatively equal effort at life...
There are, in fact, butt simple things lazy people can and do make shitty livings at. The world needs ditch diggers too.
Rule of 3s: If you've had 3 bosses with the same problem, it's not their problem, it's yours.
Either you are dealing with your bosses wrong, or you are working in the _wrong_ industry. FYI If you are working for an industry that makes pure commodities (e.g. life insurance), your boss will be a marketer and you will be seen as pure overhead.
That will teach you to spend 17 years at one place. WTF were you thinking?
The best one was where nobody but the cops knew they had cameras. 60%+ reduction in citizen complaints and violent incidents.
(3) Paid with fresh printed money.
You know the claim that a student could pay for an ivy league degree back then with a minimum wage job has been proven to be a complete lie? Utter bullshit.
Repeating it as a personal anecdote doesn't make it any more true.
Yes, but not for the group you think.
Can't help but notice you grouping business majors with STEM. Business has traditionally been the 'not so hard' it interferes with hectic party schedules degree.
You also have to recognize that the lion's share of scam degrees are in STEM and Business. People unqualified in any 4 year program are routinely fleeced with 'job enhancing' degree programs. They belong in the local Jr college, but ended in Devry, University of Phoenix etc. I can't name a 'for profit' for academic standards for admission worth mentioning. Which isn't to say that motivated students can't learn in those programs, but even proud grads of those places have to admit that looking around the 'classroom' made them shake their heads.
Later in life, people fall for different scams. The * studies morons are mostly 18-22 and don't know anything yet.
20-30 years ago. most college degrees were already worthless certificates of attendance. Any job that accepts 'any 4 year college degree' is just looking for 'Middle class, white bread upbringing. Finishes long projects.'
It's cliche but true, kids get out what they put in. Most just want to party. There have always been degrees that a party hound can pass while not letting it interfere with living like 'Animal House'. Of course some party so hard, they don't even bother showing up for class. After a year (or three) of that, many schools suggest the student stop wasting his/her money. But if the kid insists, they will usually continue taking the money.
arsed too reply with speling and grammer correction?
Does anybody think those replies are 'to help'? Pitiful, self congratulatory, mental fapping. The middle schooler, desperate to show how smart (s)he is. Big words, half understood, that's the grammarian.
LOL, the only 20 year old MTD snowblowers are in Florida. MTD makes the _worst_ junk on the planet. They have to buy a new brand every 3-5 years because nobody buys the last one. With each new brand the letters 'MTD' are printed smaller and in more hard to see places.
20 years ago they had just started to learn how to be really 'toxic cheap'. Your snowblower is junk, but the new MTD is _even_ worse.
I'll have to look him up. Assuming he's the kind of person to fuck his accountant while a whore does his taxes.
Maybe for some people...not for him. Incompetence rises if they can play the part and speak the language.