6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread

[Secure Da Bag]

I actually don't mind that part.

It seems pretty interesting tbh.

But I can only imagine what my DBA had to / has to deal with when new hires don't know or care to learn how to do basic queries like joining a table.

I'm just looking at it from the point of view that there's a decent of amount of time that, you can claim to busy "troubleshooting / reading up on / configuring something" while you're really just playing 2k, at the beach, or sleep.

Youtube is a godsend. I play youtube tutorials on one of my screens all day, to stop the forced idle screensaver .

Keep that devil work from me! Data Engineer or DB developer all day!

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

yall dont make pay decisions based off mid year reviews?

no clue, my first one. part of me says no since they call it a "lightweight review", but we might given i don't think pay changed during end of the year reviews and we just raised money in addition to recently introduced a formal leveling framework. either way...the feedback cycle is always BS to me, don't think i've gotten actionable feedback since 2014...i'm an OG, pay me and leave me alone

 

[Rawtid]

If the app in production is saying one thing and the app the consultants built is saying another, don't question ME, question THEM as to why their logic is different. I provided them where the two pieces of code were different, update your code. No, I'm not having a meeting to discuss WHY the logic in production is the way it is. The business provided the definitions, go meet with the business if you want something different. Decline.

 

[PrnzHakeem]

no clue, my first one. part of me says no since they call it a "lightweight review", but we might given i don't think pay changed during end of the year reviews and we just raised money in addition to recently introduced a formal leveling framework. either way...the feedback cycle is always BS to me, don't think i've gotten actionable feedback since 2014...i'm an OG, pay me and leave me alone

I forgot you in a pre-IPO. Y'all ain't doing all that.

 

[Rawtid]

Here we go again. The production app logic defines it as both X = this AND Y = that. The consultant app has it defined only as X=this. The discussion needs to be with the consultants to update their app, not if X=this is incorrect. That's probably why production added Y=that.

Not allowing consultants to drive business logic discussions. Now, if you want to redefine the business logic based on your shytty ass data cool, that's a separate meeting, but the consultants WILL use what's in production and fukking love it until we tell them otherwise. Meanwhile one of these re-re ass contractors let his password expire and he can't log on.

I am in the unique position of being the only employee that knows Qlik and I don't like it. But I'm in paid boot camp mode, so bring it on.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

@PrnzHakeem leak us the cliff notes on the meeting with Elon today

 

[Rawtid]

So I told my manager what my co-worker said about them extracting knowledge just to dump us later on and she was heated lol. I'm glad I said something because that rumor had me feeling some kind of way. Yay I like my job again

As for my co-worker, she said she would talk to him and try to make him feel more apart of the team. A big issue people have is they "own" work, so when it's taken away it's like someone stole their baby. Meanwhile I love to say "This yall shyt" even if I'm the author.

 

[PrnzHakeem]

@PrnzHakeem leak us the cliff notes on the meeting with Elon today

This should've been a written interview, cuz these answers to basic questions

 

[phcitywarrior]

Workers Don’t Feel Quite as Powerful as They Used To

Fears of an economic downturn are shaking some people’s career confidence, driving them toward stable jobs—and even back to offices.

www.wsj.com

Always knew the pendulum would swing back to the employers once the economic picture soured.

Here in the Bay you have SWE that were laid off at buzzy, cool (but unprofitable) start-ups moving to safer, more established tech firms like Apple, FB, Google et al.

I think office attendance might be the next metric used to cut staff, kind of like consulting has the Utilization rate for its employees.

My firm tracks who comes in by when we badge in and out. We’re supposed to be in the office a minimum of 2x a week (Tu and Wed) and an additional day every other week, but man, I know folks who haven’t come to the office in like 3-4 weeks.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

I had the first weekly infrastructure review. It was me, the new CTO, my manager, and the chief of staff.

shyt was awful. We went over all my infrastructure tickets and my support tickets. At one point, the CTO asked me why something was pending and I was like, "The work is done, I'm waiting to hear back to see if it worked."

Explaining my IT support tickets feels like going backwards in my career.

 

[greenvale]

A lot of these execs that rode the gravy train up the ladder are about to get exposed. Some of the shyt I'm hearing to help stop some of this bleeding is straight up ridiculous.

 

[Rawtid]

20 mins late to meeting that started at 4.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

20 mins late to meeting that started at 4.

If your people are anything like mine, you ain't miss shyt.

 

[Atlrocafella]

Executive VP over at a bank emailed me offering me a position, but it’s not remote. I can’t entertain it

 

[Serious]

Executive VP over at a bank emailed me offering me a position, but it’s not remote. I can’t entertain it

Convenience >>>> status