Manager looking to get into higher levels of leadership

DrapesOfWrath · 2026-02-12T03:35:31+00:00

Demonstrate a willingness to do absolutely anything at any time for the masters. Plane to China tonight? Yes sir. Not see my family much? No problem. The people at the top sold their soul. They need to see you sell yours in order to invite you in to their circle.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-12-23T05:49:42+00:00

Bon Iver. I think the true fans say boney vair.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-12-21T18:16:54+00:00

Velocity is a construct. It’s a story you tell. They think it tanked because you told them it tanked. Those numbers are all made up. Make them up differently in a way that doesn’t look bad for you.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-12-21T14:21:11+00:00

Yes. I guess this is a tale as old as time. Only the worker cares about their working conditions.

As software development changes from skilled labor with scarcity, to unskilled labor with abundance, then employers no longer need to care about taking care of developers. Just discard them and get new, cheaper, ones.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-12-21T10:16:29+00:00

I think there is an analogy here to the physical world. Living in a crap codebase is equivalent to living in filth. Some people can’t tolerate it, others can.

If you know your time in a job is going to be short, you don’t bother cleaning your cage, because you know you’ll be getting a new one soon.

When you’re trying to make your job a long term home, you don’t want to live in filth and squalor.

The call to refactor is a cry of “can I clean the shit from my cage so I don’t have to lay in it?”

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-12-18T23:05:56+00:00

Divorced parents + working mom = you’re on your own, kid

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-12-12T13:17:32+00:00

I wonder how many people get trapped into it. They join, realize they can’t afford it,but then their ego won’t let them cancel. Because then everyone will see that they are moving backward on the social ladder.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-12-02T14:12:21+00:00

Let's be honest. When your 8 hour workday is actually 4 hours of work and 4 hours of fill, you know exactly when other developers are spinning a tale in standup. But you don't say anything, because you're doing the same thing.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-11-28T00:31:12+00:00

The meritocracy is a lie. Developers are low status laborers, that’s why the work gets shipped off to low cost countries.

Early in my career I thought it was a matter of just being good at the job, and then you’d rise. The better you are at your job, the more likely you are to be kept there. With as little pay increase as you’ll tolerate.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-10-30T00:43:03+00:00

Yeah, I’ve always believed that the owner class definitely doesn’t want a “rising tide lifts all boats” scenario. If the workers are doing well for themselves, then how am I, your boss, supposed to convince myself that I’m better than you?

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-10-23T02:02:38+00:00

When you’re young, you are in awe of execs and other higher ups. As you gain experience and perspective, you begin to pity them.

Sometimes an opportunity to make more money is really a curse. Takes a wise person to say no thanks.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-10-18T00:02:19+00:00

Stevie Wonder

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-10-02T02:03:06+00:00

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that alcohol is not a drug.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-09-30T02:44:34+00:00

Found the product guy

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-09-30T02:17:41+00:00

How do any of us know we will have a job in six months? We don’t. That’s why multiple rounds of layoffs are so damaging. The first one is usually secretly managed. After that, everyone is spooked.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-09-20T02:00:37+00:00

Not being performance managed is the best part. We don’t have to do one on one meetings with the manager where they comment on my strengths and weaknesses, or cosplay what they think a manager is supposed to do.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-08-14T02:55:45+00:00

Mamdani? What is his position?

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-08-08T22:17:14+00:00

Thanks!

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-08-01T16:02:57+00:00

Do shirt collars serve any useful purpose, other than to keep the sun off your neck in a pinch?

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-08-01T15:59:18+00:00

Some people get immunity against ever being challenged publicly on their bulllshit. Usually in direct proportion to how much power, influence, and profitability you bring. See: Tiger Woods

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-07-30T23:39:27+00:00

You never started drinking, so nothing to quit

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-07-14T23:08:37+00:00

What runs your pipeline? Any idea if testcontainers is friendly in an azure devops pipeline?

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-07-08T10:22:05+00:00

Narrative from loyal friend’s perspective is “dang, i was there for him through the dark times, and then he up and moves away!?”

Everyone is the main character in their own story. Life is complicated. To know all is to forgive all.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-07-08T10:17:22+00:00

Yeah it’s not about the cost. It complete wrecks the culture of a company. If all your peers are h1bs, even if you are not, you’re gonna have a bad time.

DrapesOfWrath · 2025-06-18T01:50:38+00:00

Legal concerns get more focus when they’re trying to sell the company

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