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Yeah and that’s what “skilled labor” means. It is about people with higher skills required for their job, skills that are in high demand. There is a huge difference between a doctor, programmer, CAD designer, and a cashier.

But that makes the title true?

You don’t insult clients, period. You never know who is listening, who will rat you out, etc. Worse yet, you might send that email to the client too by mistake and get fired.

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You can make some hay doing that

Every country does. “We are doing this because you have our people!” sounds way better than “we are doing this and fuck your questions”. Safer to let them go than to fuel the fire and create an “international incident” out of two complete jackasses that aren’t really worth anything.

Yeah but even then there were plenty of shitty AAA games, you just don’t remember them because they were so shitty lol

Don’t we all. If I had brains I wouldn’t have effed up the order of things and wouldn’t have to walk butt naked and then mop it all up

TIL I’m a zombie teenager. Told myself “shower and then let’s wash the towels”. Great, threw every towel in a 20m radius into the washing machine. Then took a shower. Then I try to grab the towels that aren’t there anymore. I think my brain lagged for the next 10 mins thinking “what do I do”. I then thought of “there are towels in the wardrobe!”, went there, almost killed myself going back when I slipped on the wetspot from before. One of those days I guess

Mostly positive and barely 1k people playing it. They messed it up big time. Payday 2 meanwhile sits at 15 - 30k average. Shame, because the game had potential, but they did what they always do at launch.

It’s actually in the related articles lol

“chineese couple”. It would most likely give China ammo to be a dick some more.

Because of the implication

It never was about quality, it was about the budget available to the game.

Well, there you go - the issue is with the company and the irreplacable boss. He is the weakest link obviously. Imagine he gets into a car crash, gets hit by a bus. Suddenly all his knowledge is gone, either for a while when recovering, or forever. Knowledge transfer is incredibly important. Things like tickets, scrum, kanban etc are used because they work for every type of person - they serve to transfer knowledge, the hierarchy in a team protects the programmers from shit they shouldn’t be dealing with (that’s the project manager’s role, to be a shield for the team, to curate the the messages comming from “higher up” and the ones sent out by the team). The most important thing to know is that “do the needful” is about as shitty of an ask someone can pose to a programmer. People doing that don’t know what they want, and instead rely on what they don’t want - once you actually implement something that remotely fits what they needed. As for clients not reading specs - it might be time for someone to have “the talk” with them (obviously not you). One thing you need to know is that shitty clients can be fired too, once the development starts breaking down, the communication is arse etc.

For the people on the road - they probably took it as you trying to bail on them. But yeah, impulsivity when things are getting heated is never good, it’s better to stay silent for a few seconds and then say something, rather than immediately say something that can be taken very badly.

How long are you working as a software dev? Basically a lot of new devs want to “save the world” by closing tickets and using that as a metric if they’re doing well or not. The reality is that a software dev’s job is just about as much writing, as dealing with clients, going to meetings, etc. People might value you for things that you don’t think have value. For the cut out for this part - you most likely are. Imposter syndrome is normal, I had it too, even 6 years into my career. Been the “goto guy” for the team, multiple times a teamlead at 3 different companies / teams. Never had a problem I couldn’t google away. Yet in the back of my mind, there was always a “maybe you’ll encounter one on the next ticket? And they’ll fire you for it” etc. I managed to silence that shit and bury it deep behind all of my achievements.

For the second part - some people are just idiots, some are governed by emotion, etc. Also, saying “it’s not so bad” is a shit way to deescalate the situation ^^

This is what we professionally call “cope”

Same in Poland.

I had a dream like that about an ex. Everything perfect, house, kids, the whole thing. It felt like one of those super realistic dreams too. I woke up and got a panic attack that fucked me over for 3 or 4 days when I realized it was just a dream. Human psyche is scary as fuck sometimes.