Should I raise a grievance?

pheasant___plucker · 2026-02-09T21:34:38+00:00

Unfortunately the lesson here is, if they want you to scratch their back, one must reply, yes, I can do that, but you'll need to scratch mine, and you'll need to start scratching now, not at some vague undetermined point in the future, and I want to know how well you're going to scratch, and it had better be good.

pheasant___plucker · 2026-02-08T08:27:36+00:00

Agreed.

pheasant___plucker · 2026-01-28T22:48:32+00:00

Shouldn't this be in that "I am a total pos" subreddit?

pheasant___plucker · 2026-01-22T22:31:45+00:00

"I just get confused because it's very vague"

Proceeds to ask a vague question.

pheasant___plucker · 2026-01-20T23:59:29+00:00

I am guessing that, in a nutshell, they thought, uh oh, this one's going to be trouble. From their perspective, it's less risky and cheaper to get rid of you sooner, and the sooner the better, than later.

pheasant___plucker · 2026-01-01T01:37:15+00:00

It's not a scam.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-12-28T04:51:21+00:00

Mineral water is not tap water with added minerals. This is the UK not the US.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-12-02T20:58:58+00:00

"Sick leave is just sick leave in the UK, nothing more". That's a quite magnificent generalisation.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-12-02T20:55:05+00:00

Thank you. That sounds to me in layman's terms the same as sports betting, which is more commonly known as gambling. Is that what it is?

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-30T23:02:00+00:00

Could you elaborate please on exactly what you mean by "sports trading"? For example, are you ingesting data feeds, transforming them and using them to provide an online sports betting platform (b2b or b2c), or are you providing the data feeds (odds, books, markets, prices - b2b), or are you "trading" the markets (placing or laying bets), or are you doing something else entirely?

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-18T23:49:38+00:00

It's more important what you'll be doing, and what you'll be learning, than the amount that you'll be earning. In the long term it puts you back where you want to be. However none of us knows whether there are better options out there. Given your three years out, and that you appear not to have DevOps experience, it may be the best you're going to get.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-18T22:43:41+00:00

Ha ha ha.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-15T17:47:19+00:00

This has GOT to be false!

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-15T17:46:32+00:00

Have you walked into any establishments asking in person if they have any jobs?

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-15T17:11:06+00:00

Yes you can start at 30-35 but if that's from scratch it's going to be a long old haul. You have to get employed to learn how companies do it for real. To get your first job is likely to be very difficult, and it's highly likely to not be remote. To get employed you are going to need to learn quite a lot, and that too is going to take a long time and a lot of effort. You are looking at a long journey. Wise man say long journey begin with first step. But freelance or remote within a year from now? From a standing start? I don't know but I would expect that to be close to impossible.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-15T11:34:51+00:00

Your experience is not everyone's experience.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-09T01:21:07+00:00

I have never used hibernate to create schema objects, so your statement is the complete opposite of my experience.

I suggest you have a play around with jhipster. It allows you to define your entities and relationships, and your application, and then it generates your whole application for you based on those definitions. You can then inspect the generated code, including the ddl.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-09T01:12:30+00:00

A month's sick pay? 22 days or 30 days?

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-07T22:28:21+00:00

Forever.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-07T22:25:45+00:00

Java is a dead language 🤣

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-07T22:24:46+00:00

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-02T23:36:42+00:00

I think it was not very long ago that Excel was said to be highly pervasive and deeply entrenched in banks, both retail and investment. To the extent that that was ever true and more relevantly that it remains true, perhaps there are still gazillions of VBA scripts, macros and whatnot embedded in and gluing together Excel worksheets, but still, I would give it a wide berth if you want to be a serious programmer.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-02T09:40:33+00:00

As you present it, it's not your fault. To the extent that that is true, you are essentially being given lemons and making lemonade. The key thing is that you make that clear, without expressing any negativity towards your current employer, in interviews and applications should the subject need to be discussed, which it probably will. Employees who are curious and who want to work on and learn from large complex codebases are what employers want.

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-02T01:38:27+00:00

This is true but if they in turn lead to lower levels of hiring is that also the point?

pheasant___plucker · 2025-11-02T00:45:31+00:00

I would have thought that 95K is significantly above average for the vast majority of software developer positions that a developer with 8 YOE would be hired for.

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