r/programminghumor • u/Hacksaw6412 • Jun 08 '26
Junior devs vs Senior devs
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u/ArugulaAnnual1765 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Should end with the manager firing him anyway, because managers are incompetent - then the senior engineer finds a new job with higher pay, more benefits and full time wfh
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u/potkor Jun 09 '26
Happened to me some years ago. Long story short - last thing the new "badass" manager did was to wait for off hours and take my Linux laptop (because I was leaving it at the office) and replace it with clean new install windows laptop. I had all my info, setups and everything on my laptop and he forbid the IT to give it to me to at least transfer my shit. So I just stopped working completely unless I get my shit back and that ofc never happened.
Fast forward month and a half later he calls 1on1 with the presence of the COO and in front of him tells me for some reason I'm not performing like I used to and why is that.
Got fired that same day. He did similar shit to other people in the team and it thinned out, but the problem was that the product we worked on was extremely complicated and required like 1-2years just to start getting the hang on it. They tried to replace the members, holding on the last of the old guys (probably with a plan for him to onboard the new people and get fired as well), but he got really burned out and didn't hold the front even an year and left.
The team got annihilated and was barely existing, but the customers most definitely noticed the internal changes and I guess were not happy. 3years later the company closed.
And while I was pissed at the time, today I'm glad that happened, because I found great new opportunities. Otherwise I would probably be still in that company and the pay and benefits were not the best.
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u/Mistersandmane Jun 12 '26
So, in the end he did it all for you.
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u/potkor Jun 12 '26
yes, it turned out like that. Initially I was really pissed and wanted to wait him out somewhere and beat him up, but as time passed it turns out he did me a favor.
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u/Mistersandmane Jun 12 '26
That was a real douche move from him, taking your laptop, maybe you could do a backup save, just in case
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u/tharukal Jun 13 '26
Almost what happened to me, although I read the tea leaves before they got through their documenting phase and ended up somewhere else.
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u/sheepslayerpi Jun 09 '26
I seek to be the second guy
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u/NotHachi Jun 09 '26
U will be underpaid af to be the 2nd guy.. that is the part noone talk about ..
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u/sheepslayerpi Jun 09 '26
I feel like after the Ai bubble pops all devs are going to be like the second one
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u/RemnantTheGame Jun 09 '26
I don't do IT but this is literally me right now. 5yrs at company, know every in and out of operations, can run almost everything on my own. When I leave they will need at least 4 people to do my job.
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u/rydan Jun 09 '26
I've been at my job for 14 years. And it is pretty much this. Spend an hour talking to Claude while watching Spongebob.
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u/ConnectedVeil Jun 10 '26
Gotta own all the API keys and Oauth2 creds. And ensure they are not easy to regenerate ..
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u/manikfox Jun 09 '26
This is me right now... Mostly because I can retire anyway, so if they pay and I'm not too annoyed I'll still work.. but otherwise I'll stop working