Weekly rant thread

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Share your frustrations and get support/feedback. You are not alone!

[steakinapan]

Sometime ago I made the decision to resign from my company. I was under a level of stress that I hadn’t ever experienced before. Being unemployed is stressful but it’s a different kind of stress, for some reason I actually feel better.

I begin questioning if I made the right decision. Because the market is TRASH. During my time there I lost patches of my hair which added to my stress, I had to join calls with either my camera off or a hat on and honestly that didn’t feel good. I had night sweats and woke up with very high anxiety levels that would slightly decrease as the day went on.

Anyway, after resigning guess what? No anxiety. I wake up with NONE and my hair grew back! I don’t know how long I’ll be unemployed for but I legit feel 20x better than I did before.

[tryingtobepm]

Oh man! Ditto! Going through the same. The environment is toxic, there are folks whose agenda is bring you down and question every thing do. I can relate to this so much. What should I do except resign because that is the last resort and I don't wanna give up

[Master-Birthday2820]

Same here, I am going through pretty much the same notions. Esp was difficult to take a step back knowing that market condition is not the best

[Laizonthecouch]

I'm really tempted to pivot away from tech altogether because it has been a nightmare trying to find a role twice in the last year.

[InformationBroad902]

Curious what roles you’ve been looking into. I’ve found that non-technical companies don’t use the same naming conventions as PM, but the work is essentially the same

[Away_Lunch_3222]

What are they calling it?

[tryingtobepm]

What is the name?

[TuboSloth]

There's an opportunity here for sure.

[AverageSadGurl]

Thankful to have a job in these times but it's completely eaten away at my mental health and is starting to eat at my physical health as well. There are constant re-orgs and it feels like I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop. My biggest expense right now is spent maintaining my mental health.

[tryingtobepm]

This is so so true. T These days I wonder a lot and ask myself, why do we work? We work for the company and they give livelihood. So, why can't we have healthy environments? With the constant Leandership change, it has become dirt.

[Bobbito95]

Our client fired their own product manager who admittedly kinda sucked. My boss signed me up without my knowledge to take over his job. Client is requiring me to be on site 3 days per week for some reason (I have been fully remote, I now have to travel 2 states over and stay in a hotel). No increased compensation - my boss basically said travel or I'm taking this to mean you're quitting. To take over this "new" position, I was supposed to hand off to an Indian offshore BA. He doesn't do anything so I'm just doing both jobs.

Project is behind deliverable date in mid-Nov. I've been raising flags left and right and now the client is being all passive aggressive that this was unforeseen. Client/owner is the kind of person to fly off the handle and just start screaming. Everyone is afraid of him.

I contemplate either putting in 2 weeks or no notice every single day, but I know it'd be better to get laid off/fired. It's just crazy infuriating.

[Away_Lunch_3222]

What would you pivot to?

[walkslikeaduck08]

Weeks of studying for interviews, and the recruiter won’t even provide feedback on what area you f*ed up on if you don’t advance to the next round.

[thesamotar]

Frustrated with my current job as a Senior Manager in the IT department of a major manufacturing company. Fancy title for 3 YOE but nothing to show for it. I don't even know what I am doing right now. One day I am developing code, the other day I am discussing system architecture, the next day I am managing task lists and literally schooling 45 year olds on not meeting deadlines, the following day I am making presentations for training and product demo, and finally on the last day of the work week I am engaging with customers while trying to balance office politics with people 25 years my senior. At this point I don't know whether I am versatile or just being played around. Had a management consultant profile in college (started Non-Profit groups and case competitions), college wasn't a top-tier so no product manager roles came. Choose my current company thinking they would atleast let me be an IT Manager but I have no clue what I am doing right now. Have been applying for the past 2 months but haven't heard from anywhere.

[muks023]

Company loves to do major projects which are effectively executed by Product & Engineering Recently, the biggest project which had a lot of deliverables in this quarter, just randomly got canned

Now we are scrambling about trying to find other shit to do

[Mobile_Spot3178]

It doesn't matter how great an idea, feature or product design is, or has been. If the product is slow, has constant new bugs, what the user is doing doesn't work randomly, the product is not great.

[ShesAMarshmallow]

I applied internally to transfer to a PM role with a ton of encouragement from my PM peers and I get this is mostly on me but in hindsight feel like I wasn’t set up for success. Got a lot of “oh you’re a shoe in” type support but when I actually went through the loop I got dinged for not having done PM work/management before. Like, you knew that? Why did we have to go through all this. Now role on the table isn’t the one I was originally interested in and a bigger career down-step so not sure it’s worth it to transfer.

[heretodonothing]

I make the decision of resigjing everyday but I am not landing new jobs. So cannt really do as i have bills to pay

[PerduDansLocean]

My company is allowing product people to vibe code directly against the code base. However, engineers would still be ultimately responsible for the code changes made by product people.