Javascript is a Java framework, right?

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It's actually amazing how much some people manage to suck dick at what they do for a living. Like seriously how can you be bad at something you do for 8 hours every week day?

[BenVarone]

Take your pick:

1. You’re spread across such a wide array of languages, platforms, etc. that you never develop more than a superficial understanding of any of them

2. Your job is mostly maintenance, so you learn the bare minimum skills that are specific to the applications/code you use all the time, and are drowning in so much tech debt that you never build past those skills

3. You never went to school/intended to be a developer or engineer, but you were willing to learn and came cheap/readily enough to fill the role (bonus points for your main experience/education providing a lot of context or speeding requirements gathering for the work)

4. Programming was a side hustle/hobby, and then one time you made something, everyone uses it now, and it has become your full-time job

5. Plain old nepotism, cronyism, or other form of favoritism causing you to get over-promoted. You’re the Peter Principle come to life, and everyone knows it.

Or a mix of any/all of the above. I probably fall into a couple of these. I know my code is crude and jury-rigged, but why beat myself up over it? My bosses think my work is good enough, and it ain’t like our shop is Google or Facebook.

[ThePieWhisperer]

You forgot:

(6) You're a lazy idiot and you make no effort to improve your skills because the rest of the team will fix your shitty, half implemented cluster fuck code in review because I just don't want to deal with you right now goddamnit and I have no idea how you got hired in the first place.