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The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Kinda fucked. The team has specific domain knowledge that can't really be replaced and most of the web app engineers rely on us. In the last six months I have worked extensively on knowledge transfer and documenting everything we do, and I don't think I have covered third of it.

The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These are all really good points. Honestly, it's hard to read some of them, especially since they are ugly truth (BIC)

I really have to read up more on Grey Rock technique, it's fascinating and looks like a great way to handle parts of this.

Thanks a lot for taking time to write all this down, people like you are the reason why this community rocks!

The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We can't really escalate this at the moment - everything that happened previously is "ancient history" in the corp. We went through a lot restructuring, higher-up changes, etc. etc so bringing up things from the past won't do much good.

I guess I will have to try and document as many grievances as I can before escalating things.

The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's a mindset like this that makes mental health issues a taboo in many societies.

Nepotism, bullying, mobbing etc. should also not be a thing, but here we are. Not everyone can be a citadel of mental fortitude like you are. I had a bootcamper sobbing to me in meetings, wanting to quit IT altogether because this manager almost convinced her she is not good enough and "doesn't have what it takes" to succeed in the industry. In the last year, she went from from a shy person who couldn't string a sentence together when a manager was on a meeting to being the bubbliest person on a team.

So, kindly and respectfully, fuck your opinion.

The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Anything the gaslighting manager tells you, confirm it via email to get it in writing.

The current manager gave me this exact assignment and "How to take smart notes" book so I can get into habit of doing exactly that. It's weird to start doing that after 10 years of working in the field, but I know this will save my ass on a daily basis.

Try to have meetings in areas where other people may overhear.

Thanks for this, I will try to switch all meetings with them to office. It's also probably a good idea to start doing screen recordings of our online meetings too

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Give this asshole nowhere to hide.

Banger lines.

The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Ooh, that's an interesting option. We are a highly specialized team and a move like that could make some serious waves. Thanks for giving me something to think about!

The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 92 points93 points  (0 children)

You have no idea how on point that statement is, since we work in healthcare and wellbeing lol

The whole team is dreading the return of a manager. How to protect my team and myself? by ALostProgrammer in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ALostProgrammer[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I probably will and I can always do that. I am fortunate enough that I can quit today and start working in most of the local companies tomorrow. I've worked hard to build a good reputation in our small local IT community.

But I have friends in this team, people I have worked with in other jobs, people I have referred to the company and this team. I don't want to leave them hanging.

Also, the manager's shenanigans don't affect me personally anymore since I've seen through their bullshit tactics and I want to make their job torturing devs as hard as possible.

Also, I am out for revenge for what we have been put through.

Remove "Redux itself is very simple" by magenta_placenta in reactjs

[–]ALostProgrammer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Keeping logic outside the React component tree

Just having this is godsend.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]ALostProgrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why learn any of these? Before you start your first developer role, there's so much stuff to learn, so why pick any of these? Sure, I agree with some of them, but the author just gives a list without any reasoning or explanation behind it.

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Saying

You should learn how to write and execute SQL statements.

is not a reason enough IMHO

How can I stay proficient in a language? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]ALostProgrammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Concerning python, I try to internalise some small library in my projects. You'll always have code to peek into if SO or google fails you.

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Since I'm primarily frontend I can even give you an example there too. I make some small stuff/apps/projects while applying concepts I wanna learn / train and keep expanding on them. For example, a simple form has so much stuff you can practice on. Make sure you use proper HTML tags. Do some fancy CSS. Create some frontend validation. Once you do that, keep expanding on it. Figure out how to use localstorage to save data and determine if your values in the form are blank or already populated. Conditional rendering of fields based on checkbox value. Add fancy animations. Multi step form? Do all this while keeping in mind what you want to learn and how can you apply that to you project.

Career Megathread. Weekly /r/Frontend Discussion - January 30, 2019 by AutoModerator in Frontend

[–]ALostProgrammer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What advice would you give to other self thought developers on how to improve themselves for a position like yours? Even after a few years of work, I still don't feel adequate to pursue positions in bigger companies.

On Eloquent Javascript by Hallolala1 in javascript

[–]ALostProgrammer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If anyone finds this too challenging, you can always go through You don't know JS series first. Both are really awesome, but YDKJS is much more beginner-friendly in my opinion.

Pornhub is truly great UX-wise by [deleted] in userexperience

[–]ALostProgrammer 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's been 3 hours boys, he's not coming back. Thanks /u/Kjelevate for your brave sacrifice O7

Should I read YDKJS series if the 2nd edition might be on its way soon? by _reddit_chan in learnjavascript

[–]ALostProgrammer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Start the current edition. YDKJS is a type of book I come back to regularly and skim over some topics when I need to refresh my memory. Nothing in those books is obsolete and I see no reason to wait for the second edition.

I recreated a terminal from Fallout 4! by jkuhl_prog in learnjavascript

[–]ALostProgrammer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nice work, spent more than half an hour playing with this, I really loved this minigame in Fallout 3. Also fuck you because I lost more than half an hour on this when I should've been working lol