An associate developer foolishly joked about senior developers never being able to spend time actually coding. As a senior developer myself, I took offense to that and decided to waste the last 30 min of my day typing up my previous day.
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I do very little coding, but it’s because our workplace has an abundance of junior developers, not because I’m pressed for time. My work is essentially just turning emails into technical specifications that others can implement and tutoring juniors when there are problems. Few to no pointless meetings because I insist on using emails or tickets whenever possible.
Ugh uncomfortably relatable. I always go in with good intentions to solve a tough problem or just clearing a task. Without fail after the first hour it becomes one of those days - every day. Then we can schedule another meeting to explain why the kanban board hasn’t moved in 3 days.
Painfully relatable; add in junior devs pinging for quick pair sessions to help with their sprint items between all the meetings and that’s my day! lol
I’m technically a junior developer but I rarely need help; I’ve been coding for 10+ years.
My senior developer actually likes when I interrupt him from his tedious meetings all day or ask for input. 🤣
Oh, I’m not complaining! I love helping my junior engineers… It does take time out of the day though, so I thought it would be worth mentioning! 
Surprisingly little time on calls.
I had 5 scheduled and 4 unscheduled meetings today. At the same time, I’m constantly messaged by a project lead, because “DEV is not working and we need to ship next week”. Turns out the “ultraprincipal supersenior dev” of our team (again) pushed completely untested and obviously broken commits and of course merged without any comment to any of us (again) and then decided to go on an extended vacation.
Sometimes I feel like “senior” means simply orchestrating idiots so the few smart people in my team can get anything done.
Oh, and we had a security incident in our network and our IT department decided to randomly deactivate accounts and revoke some certificates. Because that’s what you need in times of crises: denied access.
some places are like this. Where I work now seems to be like this. Tech lead starts working on something, breaking things, then he has 100 meetings and either gets distracted or has another emergency and leaves things broken. He doesn’t write tests, pushes images built locally without CI/CD pipelines and lately he keeps messing pubsub subscriptions. Data from other services stops coming through and people ask us why isn’t our service working. ugh
As a lead (though in a small project), I can’t even describe how frustrating this is. I’m very aware, that I don’t get things done on time. I’m trying to delegate tasks, but it also feels weird to delegate tasks that seem like pretty much my core role.
I’m extremely lucky, that I have a very good and pretty senior dev on my side who’s smart enough to see if things get delayed and simply does them himself.
Nonetheless, it feels like I’m barely doing any dev work. Yesterday I spent 4h on various phone calls and meetings, another 2h on writing the results down or writing mails and the rest of the time was this “15 min between meetings” crap where you can’t get anything done except a meeting with the toilet.
This gives me flashbacks to my time in Support. And reminds me of why I never want to go back.
Aside from standup on planning day, I’ve had this exact day many times.
Nowhere there he spent 15 minutes starting some real code just so the interested people interrupt, with an unscheduled meeting just to tell you that all of what they told you is wrong and you will have to redesign everything again.
Oh, and the meeting will last for 3 hours, even though there are only 15 minutes of content. So many of those other people will reach you during that meeting. Also, it terminates in another 3 hours meeting (scheduled as a 30 minutes one) to schedule the work for that system.
“I’m in this post and I don’t like it”
Your PI planning meeting only took half an hour???
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Never again
Always! Then leave an hour early
I have taken up the habit of being at work one-two hours before anyone else.
I get undisturbed, effective work done, and I leave earlier. More work done, more own time with family each day.
I’m still reachable through phone, add can fix most catastrophic problems from home, but that is so seldom occuring that it is OK, and collegues don’t complain about me not being in office after 15:00.
Yeah, nice! I do something similar. I work remotely and most of the team is one time zone earlier, so it’s a little easier for me.
This is the way
unless everyone starts coming in early just to pester you.
The break that I i get laughing over these mutts fixing their silly issues, and gives me perfect day to get out of Monday blues or Fridays
Wow you actually get logs from the other devs? I get fucking screenshots of abbreviated stack traces. Often not even the relevant portion of the stack trace or log.
it’s funny because this reads like something exaggerating for effect, but anyone in this kind of position knows that it’s not.
BA/Manager/Scrum Master has been on vacation for some time and it’s eye opening how much the team vibe has changed.
We need his business domain expertise, but we could easily go without his constant anxiety and "how’s the task going?"s. It will be done when I say it to you for fuck’s sake.
Tbf if you immidiately drop all your work and start fixing other coworkers problems only if they “insist” the error belongs to you… Its kinda your own fault. “Innocent till proven guilty”. Either they show meaningfull logs/screens or they could go fuck themselfes.
this ain’t a criminal court. It’s ok to be helpful to a degree, especially if a bunch of people can’t work because of that issue.
Yes, YOU cant work (your tasks) because of this issue. If your task is to complete a project then you arent helping this project or the people in this priject in any way. If your task is to help anyone who has an issue then it is ofc ok to help them. But then you have no right to complain, because you are just doin your job.
Dont understand me wrong, im not against helping others. But if you are jeopardizing your own work because of their mistakes, then you are doin something wrong. Afterall you commitet to a specific goal which is your responsibility to complete.