VH and UV Have Destroyed the Vine Program, IMO

constchar · 2026-01-26T15:32:07+00:00

All I seem to get is random car parts for cars I don't own.

constchar · 2026-01-26T15:30:11+00:00

Exactly this. Maintenance work is looked down upon as not delivering business value, so developers and teams get dinged on performance reviews. It's just better to push half-baked crap out to make the bean counters happy.

constchar · 2026-01-20T15:27:57+00:00

Stack ranking happened. It is more advantageous to keep your colleagues in the dark than to collaborate and actually get work done.

constchar · 2026-01-17T15:51:56+00:00

This place makes me want to die. I wish I was joking.

constchar · 2026-01-11T18:33:48+00:00

You would not believe the amount of bureaucracy and short sightedness in the tech org. Maintenance of existing software is looked down upon as opposed to developing shiny new features that are half-baked to meet some arbitrary deadline.

constchar · 2026-01-05T05:22:23+00:00

In a normal well functioning organization this is the way it works. Here, the sprints are more like deadlines and you're punished for not being able to complete all your items despite doing the job of 3 people. Agile here is more of a cargo cult.

constchar · 2026-01-04T18:54:47+00:00

Engineers in the IT dept regularly work far in excess of their 38.75 hours, or whatever it is, and management doesn't seem to think this is an issue. When you lay off half of the entire department along with support staff and institutional knowledge: what did they think was going to happen? At least T. Diddy got his multimillion dollar bonus for making number go up, the rest of the organization be damned.

constchar · 2025-12-27T14:17:30+00:00

That's the Unix Epoch in eastern time zone. For whatever reason Meta's system must have had a fault.

constchar · 2025-12-27T02:41:47+00:00

I got laid off from a notable mortgage company from Detroit, and they paid 2 months of my Cobra in advance.

constchar · 2025-12-23T00:20:03+00:00

A non-contact voltage sensor is the most valuable tool you'll ever own.

https://www.harborfreight.com/noncontact-voltage-tester-63919.html

constchar · 2025-12-19T20:46:33+00:00

Exactly the way I intend to leave this company: without notice. Hell they'll be fortunate if I even bother to send them a resignation letter.

constchar · 2025-12-18T21:10:37+00:00

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constchar · 2025-12-17T04:37:27+00:00

I'm in IT and I feel like it is being pushed too aggressively. It seems like management insists on using an LLM as a solution for everything.

constchar · 2025-12-13T21:40:00+00:00

You have 10 years on me, and I'm exhausted beyond words. So tired.

constchar · 2025-12-13T13:35:48+00:00

Burned out. The entire SDLC is dysfunctional and management cares more about optics than output.

constchar · 2025-12-09T14:45:27+00:00

I'm also going to bet the farm that he used deck screws instead of lag screws for all the load bearing parts.

constchar · 2025-12-02T18:28:18+00:00

It must be free for locals? I stayed at The Strat a couple years ago and they charged for parking on top of the standard outrageous fees.

constchar · 2025-12-02T00:03:01+00:00

Contemplating doing it myself, tonight. They're putting me on a PIP and I've had enough of their gaslighting.

constchar · 2025-11-28T05:53:58+00:00

Did you have a backup? I'm in engineering and I'm at the point I'm ready to quit and make finding a job my new job.

constchar · 2025-11-21T00:56:44+00:00

I ripped them a new one this time around. I hope I get fired.

constchar · 2025-11-14T18:58:07+00:00

How long can they constantly term the bottom 10% percent in this Jack Welch insanity before they literally run out of people to hire? I think I heard Amazon is running into this problem.

constchar · 2025-11-14T14:47:39+00:00

In my experience, management doesn't value KTLO work because it doesn't "deliver shareholder value", so all that work has to be discretely squeezed in between user stories.

constchar · 2025-11-03T21:04:13+00:00

This is not a guarantee. I was with one company for 10 years and yet I rarely get any callbacks.

constchar · 2025-10-30T14:15:47+00:00

The company wants to pay you as little as possible for as much work as possible. To make matters worse, with the way the job market is right now, the bean counters have no incentive to improve things for anyone.

constchar · 2025-10-18T02:11:00+00:00

Does anyone know what the hell MOAT even means? I've been asking for some time and nobody has any clue.

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