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Getting a job itself is a challenge for me, I will update this post once I get there. :facepalm:.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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My mind still confused what this is suppose to mean. Like commuting to work? Like if the hardest part is getting to the office, then everything else is considered less difficult.
Or is commuting an actual difficult part? At least for me, part of accepting a new job is planning the commute, so would have been cleared of before accepting.
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When I took a job at Citi in NYC during the 2007 - 2009 recession, the hardest part was the commute:
15 minutes drive to Amtrak station
2 hours into the city
30 minute subway
15 minutes walking
And if I stayed at my aunt's house, which I did 3 out of 5 days, the only difference was instead of 2 hours on Amtrak it was 1 hour on Metro North.
I will never do that again. And to add insult to injury, many department managers had no problem with people telecommuting. In fact, I was supposed to work in one of those departments. At the last minute, they changed what department I was going to work for and that manager had a bee in his bonnet (to put it mildly) regarding telecommuting.
The irony is, everyone on his team telecommuted over the weekend to fix the build issues before the weekly Monday morning production release. Hypocrites.
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Commuting is an actual difficult part.
Especially when commuting services in the work area are poor or insufficient.
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Dealing with new methodologies and expectations shouldn't be put into the same sentence. Dealing with new methodologies is fairly straight forward assuming the group / company applies them consistently, which of course most don't.
But dealing with expectations is the worst. Expectations are unspoken, conflicting and ambiguous.
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I started at my current job October 15, 1990. In that 29 years I've worked on jobs ranging from 5 minute batch files to OS/2 device drivers written in assembly language to multi-threaded C#/WPF UI's. The one two constant factors have been learning new things and clueless engineering management by mechanical engineers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Can't really learn anything new if your tummy is a bit rumbly.
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Part of our "Welcome to the Team" packet is a link to the team's SharePoint site that has a list of the area restaurants and reviews! We make sure people know where to eat...and on a related note, where the bathrooms are. 
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This is really fantastic! I think companies should adopt this model. I can even go a whole month before I finally learn where to eat.
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Ha ha.. Where the bathrooms are!! Good one...
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I learn how to get along, and proceed to "get along".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You forgot to add ". . . stepping over the bodies . . . "
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It's weird, but within an hour or two of starting a new job, people seem to kind of fear me.
It might be he way I carry myself, or the fact that I stare 'em dead in the eye when I tell then how f*cked up they are - I just don't know.
I think if they ever had to decide who they'd want on their side in a bar fight, they'd pick me, because they know I'd fight dirty.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: It's weird, but within an hour or two of starting a new job, people seem to kind of fear me.
Any chance it's the Napalm scented cologne?
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#realJSOP wrote: I stare 'em dead in the eye
Nah. It's the fact that you don't blink.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yeah. This ain't no finishing school.
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Every new company I've been with thinks their stuff is really complex and that someone needs at least a year to get comfortable with the software.
Just tell me which button to press, what the desired result is, and I'll dive into that code and have it fixed this afternoon.
Sure, it might take me a year to understand what everything does, but most developers don't do everything anyway.
I've worked on software for years without fully understanding it while still being able to do my job.
My manager at a former job was completely surprised that I was fully productive within a week of employment.
Well, duh, I don't need to know ALL the code, just the code I'm working on.
So I'm just saying, learning your code base is NOT the hardest part of a new job.
Unless it looks like it was written by a cat who just randomly walked on the keyboard, and unfortunately, that seems to be the case more often than not 
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The joys of not working in embedded software.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Even then, you don't need to learn it all - I worked on one embedded Z80 assembler project for 8 years without any how the chimp that wrote it thought, or how the whole thing somehow managed to work at all: I just modified the bit I needed to and tested, tested, tested. And normally found more bugs in his code than I added.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: found more bugs in his code than I added
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Foolish is our youth, and careless with words.
I could give you an address where they always were looking for some confident young men to feed to their eldritch abomination. No matter how many years you try to understand that thing, you will always end up where you started from. Why? Because they went through all the motions, but with zero understanding. This thing has no architecture and everything is right there where someone thought it might be a good place for it. I think it has been put out of its misery by the customer by now and hopefully the company will follow.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I see we fought the same battles.
War... war never changes.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I could give you an address where they're always looking for some confident young men to feed their "fully dynamic best practices" application. No matter how many years you try to understand that thing, you will always end up where you started from. Why? Because they went through all the motions, but with zero understanding. This thing has no architecture and everything is right there where someone thought it might be a good place for it 
Hence my "unless", and even there I managed to get work done
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No, you will not. You are just lazy and too dumb to understand this masterpiece. They will try to suck out of you as much as they can and then out you go. If you want to go before they are done with you, then you are also ungrateful and unloyal.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Sounds like they have more than one problem
The "lead" programmer at the company where I worked got mad at me for touching his code (took 40 seconds, brought it down to 40 milliseconds).
He was only load because he spent the most time on the project and he had the biggest mouth.
Anyway, after I touched "his" code he made another "fix" and got it to 4 seconds, but according to him it was better than my code (it was an Entity Framework thing).
He also told me to rewrite a piece of JavaScript, which I wrote according to the Module pattern, but that was not how they worked so everything needed to be public.
And last, but not least, he was annoyed because I wrote some code that he couldn't even read.
I used a delegate... Go figure, the syntax was foreign to him.
He rather put everyone else on his level than learning from others.
Whenever I come across someone like that again I make sure to be gone asap.
Life is too short to deal with such people (and companies that let them).
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