IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Hostile pajeetification is soul draining. My wife left her last job for essentially the same reason you did. No private sale or anything the owners just hired a streetshitter CTO who did the usual. Fired a bunch of key leaders from the startup days and replaced them with more streetshitters then offloaded tons of production operations to IBM streetshitter consultants who were, purely coincidentally, longtime friends of his.

That went on for a year or two and nearly everyone in my wife's whole organization in the company (manufacturing technology/process control stuff) were replaced with streetshitters. Quality and issues increased so dramatically that the CEO finally took notice and eventually fired the CTO and a number of the leaders he hired. But it took the guy years to even notice it. As the CEO was the same guy who founded the company he thankfully has the ability to fix the situation but it will take a long time I guess. The streetshitters caused numerous plant shutdowns by pushing faulty code and overriding process control tests in their manufacturing lab. Once they removed all of the original crowd they had nobody else to throw blame on and couldn't kiss ass saying they were actually the ones fixing the problems created by the inexperienced team who created the entire system in the first place.

I can only assume the CEO fell for the shameless dick sucking pajeets are known for and became convinced that the next huge influx of bucks required him to get rid of the people he trusted when the company was just getting started. That they were somehow in his way when it came to getting to the next big milestone.

I am really glad that my new job is a domestic logistics company and there are almost no streetshitters in the entire organization. Just a token few.

That or there is a Poo with a title up the food chain you are not aware of orchestrating things to increase the infestation. Our company has a couple of those and the last six contractors that got hired on all produced zero work, literally zero, over the 18 months they were here before finally being canned. And nearly all of them filed claims with HR against their managers when they were not Poo Managers as well. At least our board of Tribe People are getting wise to this bullshit and starting to prune them out. Either that or the UAE guys who bought us mandated we de-Poo, because two exec level people and a half dozen middle manager Poos all got the chop shortly after that deal was inked.

On the topic of QoL, I recently looked at other positions for the kind of low end break fix/sysad work I do mostly and while I could get a lot more money, it would be in office overseeing an army of Poo contractors. I come out ahead on money just working from home and am crushing the productivity standards. Figuring that out is a complex equation, but I am so glad I stood my ground when management wanted to "renegotiate" my employment contract to force an RTO. The people that took that scam actually had fall offs in performance and the dude pushing for it (surprise its a Poo SVP) got shitcanned over it.

I have been at this new job for 1 week. Last week after onboarding until Wednesday I got 2 dev tickets. These didn't seem too difficult to me so I completed both of them by Friday. Getting them merged and pushed to production this morning and staff engineer takes me aside and tells me to pace myself or I'll get forcefully swamped in tickets.

Not sure I appreciated that. I haven't even gone through their backlog to see what's in it or anything.

Cad said:

Granted this was late 90's but I worked in R&D for a software company back then and we had tickets for features and bugs. The R&D manager got the bright idea to track who resolved the most tickets, and in a 12 person group I was resolving like half the tickets. Like half the department came to me and told me to chill because they like not working too hard and I'm fucking it up for them.

Can't imagine that has gotten better.

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At the job I just left 40% of the ticket backlog for our team was me.

There is absolutely no way I am some super genius here. When I get some ticket I just do it. Often while reading web novels or something on the side and listening to music. I can't really believe that absolutely everyone half asses it to such a degree that I appear to be speedrunning.