I dont care if the feature I’ve worked on gets canceled. The lost work is management’s problem, not mine; I still get paid the same.
That’s how I always felt about it. As long as I get paid, I don’t care what they do with the software.
👆 This. In my experience, I’ve seen a lot of developers get upset about “their code” not being used, time wasted, or someone else changing the code after the fact. Who cares? Once you commit that code, it’s no longer your code. It’s the company’s code. Your paycheck will reflect the same amount of money regardless — and if it doesn’t, you may want to find a better employer. 😅
Your paycheck will reflect the same amount of money regardless — and if it doesn’t, you may want to find a better employer. 😅
bruh, the scenario you’re describing is meant to be “code shipped = bonus pay” not “code not shipped = less pay”
When I’m at some corpo writing corpo crap, I don’t really care because I already got paid.
And we’ll get laid off anyways either it’s useful or not.
Yeah but then you don’t get a promotion because you didn’t have an impact… I’m sorry, impact is not in my job description.
Maybe I dont want a promotion? I just wanna write code and get paid. Please dont give me more responsibilities.
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.
Is that why they’re cracking down on ad blockers so hard? So they can keep paying for wasted time?
Critical mistake #1: caring about work more than it pays.
Me maintaining an old codebase and implementing features for months before boss shows up one day and says the 60 remote workers have been working on an identical project which will be the one we actually use. Bruh wtf
Become a bad programmer and be thankful you won’t have to further maintain your code instead!
Man, I had recently spent a lot of time designing advertisement stuff around an established brand identity, that was pretty much going for a classy/luxury aesthetic. So I was basing all my designs around that identity. Made lots of variations, took many hours perfecting it.
Then was told they didn’t like it. They wanted something entirely different that “screamed” budget and flashy colors and shapes.
Got it just perfect on the second attempt after being briefed properly, but it did really hurt when my first attempt was shot down so easily.
“Granny does your dog bite?” “No child, no.”
proceeds to get bitten
“Granny, wtf?” “Well, you’re not a child anymore.”
