I’m in this story and I don’t care, I’m still getting paid
I wish I was in this story.
I'm usually the guy left holding the bag of everyone else's work. What the fuck?
Even in school. Remember those group projects where the teacher assigned the groups to force kids to mingle or whatever? But one kid just ends up doing all the work anyway because the others didn't give a fuck? That was me—I was the one kid who did all the work.
It sounds like a very UK thing, yeah? I'm trying to think of what the US equivalent would be (I grew up there) but I can't think of anything. I can picture a 40+ coworker (my age too) listening to the beastie boys and rage quitting though
I used to curse to myself while reading code at work. Maybe I thought it demonstrated that I was really working; look how furrowed my brow is, how forceful and heated my mouse clicks!
After being enlightened however, I realize that the only perfectly implemented, bug-free code is no code at all. The app didn't ask to exist, certainly not in the state it's in. It too deserves the compassionate understanding that all beings suffer to exist.
Plus I work remotely now so no one can hear me yelling at the computer anyway!
I'm pretty sure whatever gods created me cursed a hell of a lot while doing it. I know the surgeons did. And since I exist to suffer I give my code no such leniency like this SuFfEr TO exISt bullshit.
I guess I haven't ascended. I've been a SW dev for many years (def >10, probably 15 at this point), I lead a team, and I still curse to myself while working in our codebase. I think it's because I spend like half my time in meetings so I take half the technical work my reports do, so it bothers me more when I finally try to get something done.
Occasionally I'll rage-refactor something and submit a massive PR that fixes a bunch of annoying stuff (currently sitting on ~1k changes stashed), but I only send those in just after a release (don't want to get yelled at for missing a deadline). Or we'll take too long to make a decision on new dependency, so I'll just build it in an afternoon (just did that last week; 300-400 LOC).
I'm no rockstar dev, but I can crank out the work when sufficiently pissed off. Otherwise, I just coast a bit like the rest of the team. So if my boss wants me to be productive, he just needs to delay until I get fed up and just do it.
I used to work with a “What?!” “Really?!?” “Oh My GOD?!” person. Sometimes, if someone she knew was around, she’d explain what on facebook had her in a tizzy.
It was like nails on a chalkboard. Constant rocks being flung through the fragile windowpane of my concentration.
My friend dated that person. It was Twitter though. We’d be hanging out and his partner would be like “NOOOOOO” and I immediately dreaded the incoming onslaught of Twitter drama bullshit.
Hey, I actually do some really coding sometimes. I got to spread the workload really thin over the 40 hours. Spread it as thin as the pay, to balance it out. It's not my fault my motivation to work is only kept alive by not wanting to starve or become homeless.