• Mesa@programming.dev
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    13 days ago

    I’ve got a guy like this now. I’m sure he does what he does perfectly fine, but I watched him struggle to identify a very obvious bug he pushed to production which disabled an entire function. It’s a little different now when I see him being snarky with other team members…

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    Most devs refuse to take on any sort of responsibility of management. The manager gets paid to deal with that for you. Want more money? Manage coders on a successful team. You’ll e miserable but at least you’ll hit 200k.

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    My boss didn’t know how to use my ergonomic mouse, and needed me to walk them through how to sign their signature on a PDF.

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      My boss didn’t know how to use my ergonomic mouse

      I use a logitech M575 trackball, people have tried to scoot it like a mouse and yanked their hand away from it as if it burned them.

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    Its because people get other priorities with age. They dont care about learning new things as much, as a general rule. They have their paycheck and they value time with family or friends. The job is just a way to get money, not a choice or a passion.

    This is in contrast with young people, who often wants to show how good they are, make a career, get recognized. Believe it or not, those older people wanted that too but not anymore. They did it, but other things became more important than work.

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      which is why its important to let people coast in their careers like we were allowed to up until recently

      You shouldn’t have to constantly take on new and difficult projects at once just to stay afloat, it should genuinely be enough to punch in, do a single task, punch out after a certain age.

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    I mean I see this all the time but those people tend to either have the tribal knowledge or specialist expertise to keep things moving when we hit snags. It’s not obvious until the obvious or textbook solutions to problems run out

    Though there are also people around because they talked to all the right people all the time so I partially take your point