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"What is my purpose?"
"You review the CEOs AI-authored code for security issues"
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[–] 58 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

My CV looks something like:

  • Jr Support agent > Sr Support agent > Lead Support agent
  • Tech engineer
  • DevOps engineer
  • DevOps lead
  • Sysadmin > Sr SA > lead SA
  • Technical Architect> Solution Architect > Sr Arch > Enterprise Arch
  • Director of IT
  • Raising chickens

Chickens might shit everywhere, scream constantly, and flap their wings just to get attention, much like managers. But they can't make you polish that shit into a product to sell. And if one gets out of line you can just eat them.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I thought a lot about getting out of tech about eight years ago. I landed on becoming a history professor as the role that would be most fulfilling. I hated school and I would hate getting accredited, but I believe I'd be able to impart the joy of history to a handful of students. Too bad I hated school. I'm still in tech.

    If I could swap to chickens, that'd be interesting. Buckawk.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    But they can't make you polish that shit into a product to sell

    You're probably aware, but the product (eggs) comes from the same place as the shit. At least for chickens anyway, never seen the anatomy of a manager, but I hear they're invertebrates so it may be slightly different.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Yes! Your deeply intellectual take based on my comparison of chickens shitting and screaming to how IT managers act is surely correct about how I live my life, and how those chickens live.

    Fun fact - Our chickens live freely in the forest during the day, and have a nice safe place to sleep at night. We don't force them to come home, but they know what lives out in the forest and choose to come back to where they are safe and have friends.

    Oh and we don't eat them. But if you wanna call pulling their non-viable eggs out from wherever they left them today violence then I have a few bridges to sell you in manhattan.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You're such a heartless bastard, depriving those poor foxes in the forest of their food, by sheltering it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Finally, some criticism that makes sense! I will be sure to start feeding the foxes too. We already feed the birds, squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, bunnies, raccoons, stray cats, fish, black flies, and mosquitoes (with varying levels of 'on purpose').

    What is one more species?

    Seriously - This cruel bastard spends $500(cad) per month on feeding wildlife in the winter. What a piece of shit. And those raccoon houses we built so they'd be happy further from the house and stop tearing up our insulation? TORTURE FACILITIES filled with soft straw, eggs, fruit, and cat food.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Nice try, troll. I'm posting here for the real humans. Not to convince you of anything.

    edit to add: only one of us came into a thread espousing their views without being prompted. Maybe work on that before accusing others.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's why he was a director of IT before the chickens, lol

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hah! Fair jab. In my defense that title was just a blown up way to attempt to keep me onboard without a raise. Being director of IT in a startup with only one IT person is definitely not filled with director-level tasks. That title, and the bullshit that came with it, are a big part of why I left.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I mean... I've dealt with plenty of AppSec, Development, and IT directors, and I'd say about half of them treated us like chickens. "Once they stop laying, slaughter 'em"

    Glad you got out while you still could!

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