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On the bright side, zero responsibilities (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Only hours? lol then that's fine

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 2 days ago

I just had an entire platform killed after 10 months of development.

[-] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I spent 1 year coding the same feature, but each 3 months I had to restart from scratch because management decided a new 'flow' and the previous one was completely different.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

And as a bonus the flows were never fully specc’d each time right?

[-] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Of course, but that is why those 8h meetings are for, right? Not useless at all!

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

If it’s just hours, that’s fine. I’ve spent months on a system before that ultimately got scrapped. When I was at Google, they accidentally had two teams working on basically the same project. The other team, with about 40 engineers, having worked on it for about a year, had their project scrapped. My team was meant to do the same work, with about 23 engineers. So if you’re ever wondering why Hangouts Chat launched kinda half baked, that’s why.