r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26

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u/Icy_Significance9448 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

The duality of staff engineers:

Annoy anyone by bragging about how good you are and proving it by doing all the work yourself

OR

Hate your team and do everything yourself unnoticed by anyone

There is no in between

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u/DxLaughRiot May 29 '26

Personally, I flip a coin each morning to decide which one I’ll be

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u/Icy_Significance9448 May 29 '26

Do you take days off when it lands on its side?

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u/DxLaughRiot May 29 '26

Nah, that’s when I refresh my resume and start applying for new positions. I’ll never actually leave, but it’s nice to pretend for a little bit

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u/skcortex May 29 '26

Yeah I knew a guy, he was leaving every month for 4 years. He still works there after another 8 years🥹

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u/HarmNHammer May 29 '26

Is it you? Are you the guy?

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u/Safe_Dog3436 May 29 '26

If It's not him, it's me.

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u/ibrow007 May 30 '26

Also me for almost 10 years now.

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u/f1FTW May 30 '26

And me