by kyks17 » 12/12/2010, 1:38 am
I'm late to the party, but figured I'll contribute.
I'm a programmer/analyst for the same company as Josh. Basically I write software, when I'm not bogged down by politics, documentation, and idiot coworkers. I'm curious that most of you seem to only have issues with your managers. I have issues with my manager, senior manager, other managers, AND plain ol' coworkers. And I'm not the only one like that at my job, so it's not just me being a bitch haha! Remember those people too lazy to deploy their own software into production that Josh mentioned in his first post? That would be me.
Had I written this at the time of the 1st post, I would be saying:
I just got transferred off the team I had been on for over a year, with nary a notice. I found out about 10 days after the transfer supposedly took place. Managers pretended not to know and didn't tell me. I found out from an org chart. Let's see how my new team pans out.
Since I'm actually writing this in the present, I say:
I just got transferred off the team I went to after I got transferred off the team I had been on for over a year. Oh, and I was transferred BACK to that team I had been on for over a year. How my new team had panned out (the one I just left)? Horrible. Hours were more sensible, but terrible, terrible coworkers. Their idea of training me was telling me to go look at the code. And I had to wait 4 days for them to have enough free time to tell me that 1 sentence. THANKS GUYS. Oh, and I also served a nice scapegoat if something went wrong or wasn't done in time. Despite my not knowing what they were even talking about more than half the time.
We have a saying in my department: "So-and-so is a moron. Must be a Senior PA" (senior programmer/analyst, aka my next promotion). Truly we reserve the positions of power and money for the most idiotic. You really should meet my senior manager. I managed to get into a fight with her with the first sentence I ever said to her when we first met. A sentence that inquired what school she was looking at for her children in LA, where I'm from and thus know the schools. Yeah. I don't know either.
I'm getting kind of specific here I suppose. But basically, everyone sucks, whoever said earlier that the person who does well is rewarded with more work, was dead on. Meanwhile we promote the morons. Nobody trusts me to make any of the decisions, even when I have a lot of input to contribute. They won't even listen. Nobody trusts me to write code without supervision, despite the fact that the code I write has the lowest % of bugs found, AND the fact that I end up coding the bug fixes for everyone else's code. Sometimes I can't even believe the things that occur.
Of course the reason I'm still here is the money. Unlike Josh, I am not a contractor here, and they have golden handcuffs on their "associates" (the non-contractors, the "good" ones). We have amazing benefits. I am the lowest paid on my team and probably will be until we hire anyone new, but I can't complain about the pay I do receive. And with Josh leaving in 2 weeks, I don't want to risk anything. But I spend most of my day pissed off, and unfortunately I do have the tendency to take my work home with me.
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Yeah Hub!!
I <3 my Joshy! Josh #1!!