Tech committee LC thread

What totally helps on the bad days is to know that you have an alternative. You don't have to stay there. Or just to decide that you dgaf.

From what you wrote to this point, it is too chaotic environment for you to ever feel happy and at peace there.



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I’m trapped here by my resume. It looks so bad if i leave. I also havent developed any real skills since ive been here. Im unmarketable if i leave here and they know it.

Im trapped in my house too. Sorry just not in a good state. Maybe this new project can give me something to focus on

I would so much prefer that to slow mental torture

micro is impressively brave.

I mean .... what can go REALLY wrong? What is the worst case scenario in the current situation?
I think at the moment the worst case is that people get bored and leave. Is it a disaster for anyone?
I hope not. I clearly hope also that it won't happen, but if.... so be it.

For me it is about learning, about trying to navigate all technical stuff but also about how does a group of people function together,
how should I act to achieve the best result, how is a coop set-up, how is a non-profit set-up, how to set-up a board of such structures,
how do they become a legal entities.....

I will be 100% smarter after this experience.

Lapka,

Thanks. You mean brave about the site or crawling on explosive batteries? I think I was pretty smart and careful about the batteries actually. But it was prime black widow territory. If you mean about the site, whatever could go wrong there will be no explosions or black widows.

that's basically what I had imagined, I'm glad they thought of it too. I think we could easily have a proposal by end of week if we had to.

With this being the "talk about your tech job" thread, I just started a new job I detailed a bit in the programming forum on 2+2. It's at a well-known Bay Area tech company. I like it a lot so far, and it's not too grueling or anything but I also want to prove myself and kick a lot of ass this year so my manager will be like "hey we should give you raises and promote you".

Micro, tx for posting this flow chart here. I was so frustrated by the government forum, that I somehow skipped reading it.

We have this remote guy at my job that I think I need to really throw under the bus.

The guy is a constant snag and everyone at some point has very vocally complained about him. His official title is "solutions engineer" but he's basically a sales engineer. Kerowo said it funny in the programming LC thread, that he sounds more sales than engineer. Totally true.

His field of expertise is financial tech but he doesnt seem to know much about anything else. He constantly says he will do x by y date and when you check on him it's like the conversation never happened.

So we have been waiting for this large company to give us some compiled super-secret code to test on our solution. It seems to get endlessly delayed - I found emails from last summer that were saying they were "very close" to sending us something.

Anyway our (terrible) contract says we have 6 weeks from the time they deliver the code, to performing an audit of the solution with a 3rd party. Their (ONLY) contact has been the sales engineer.

I've made a point to ask him every single day in slack to update his status on things, it's the usual delaying, stalling, oh I'll work really hard this weekend, wheels spinning endlessly kind of thing. Fine. But I had asked him pointedly several times if we ever received the code we were supposed to receive - I usually ask about 3x weekly. Over the top but I wanted to make it very clear a while ago I was following up with this guy because the blame usually falls to me on this kind of stuff. A big part of my job unfortunately is constantly just chasing after people, I didnt choose it, that's just what they want so I do it.

So today we get an email to the larger channel - all the important people, me, some very important big company people, from the large company, pinging us asking the status of the code they have sent us.

Um, what code? Huh? I immediately panicked and my bosses were fuming, like why didn't I tell them the code was already delivered, if I have bad news i need to give it to them ASAP, etc. etc. I honestly have been juggling 85 things lately so I really thought I must have missed some email or message somewhere. I exhaustively reviewed the communications and realized very quickly this guy was just flat out lying about this for at least 2 weeks, maybe longer. I even had documented one crucial private exchange I had with him a few weeks ago and had forwarded it to my boss - he made it very clear, NO they have not sent us anything, I will let you know when they do.

So, he had to have received it in the last few weeks. For the timer to start on us he would have to verify performance and validity of the code they sent. He is really slow to do things so there's no way they sent it late last week, like the sales guy and his boss (director of sales) are claiming. he HAD to have received it weeks ago and there's no other possible explanation. And even if he did somehow receive it late last week, not mention it at all (even the CEO asked him to give daily updates), compile it (there are new API's in their code not compatible with our solution so there's no way he could do this in like, a day or two), set the solution up, test it and validate it - and then not mention it? Huh? Also if large company sent us something late last week - why would they be pinging us already today? That doesn't really happen unless it's been a week+. 

My bullshit detector has been going off the charts for months about this guy and I've expressed concerns multiple times, I always get referred to HIS boss (the director of sales) who says he'll deal with it. But now I'm thinking there's absolutely no way the director could have NOT known about this, from the email/message exchanges I analyzed this afternoon.

It was mostly an exercise to cover my own ass and see if I made some kind of mistake but I think this guy is completely FOS and I don't know what to do about it. I told my boss everything I found this afternoon and he says we should talk to the CEO about it. I hope I am not stirring a hornet's nest over nothing but this guy has been a constant bottleneck and has affected my team negatively so many times I feel like I can't continue forward with the guy anymore because I straight up do not trust a word out of his mouth right now.

This guy is our only contact. I have asked him to forward emails but he will ignore it or come up with an excuse.

Told my bosses to deal with it because something doesnt seem right.

Just wanted to say hi. Didn’t give up on this just been sick was in hospital for quite a while but doing better now.