Disclaimer: This is based on emotions and nothing else
I’m so tired of reading the same post 10 times because everyone wants to join in.
The most talked about thing right now is the closure of CloudFlare. Everyone forgets the real issue which was that no (automated) testing/QA was done to prevent this bug. Even a feature flag would have been enough for them to see the problem earlier.
This is what every LinkedIn poster does:
- open chatgpt
- “Rewrite this LinkedIn post about the Cloudflare outage”
- Moving towards the use of AI
.unwrap() - LinkedIn guy doesn’t fact-check anything or read post-mortems
Result: “Unwrap is dangerous. Here’s how Unwrap works”
I am very tired. I neither care about your company, nor do I care about you. I don’t care because you don’t even care what you post. You don’t care about your career, only how it looks. In the end, this is an accurate representation of how LLMs work, so I’m not surprised that managers are chatgpt’s best friends.
I’m not surprised that corporate social media is lifeless, but I am surprised that no one actually cares. How do these people stay motivated to do anything? It can’t just be money, right?
I added a disclaimer because I think this post is very short-sighted. This feeling is rooted in the fact that I am tired of corporate hell, and as a result of these feelings I have not been very productive at work. This resulted in me being let go early (also known as a PIP!).
If you don’t care about my career then you can skip this part.
When I started $Company, it was mostly tool making, with a manager check-up from time to time. It worked amazingly, because I had time to learn and improve, and I was able to perform.
Fast forward a few months, we now have 3 managers, 1 Dave (hi), and a ton of busy work that needs to get done tomorrow. As far as I understand, a manager is supposed to be your safety net and keeps context changing to a minimum. Tickets should feel like small updates, yet they take up 40% of my work (which could have been spent on a solution). Since I’m the main dev, any busyness will push the ticket back further. It also means that I am guilty, because I should have been alerted earlier. Them About the flow of the project. I am not the Prime Minister! It’s my job to create projects and keep you updated. If that’s not enough then go to the Prime Minister (oh wait, that’s not me!). Another big problem I have with this workflow is that we are sometimes shifting priority scheduling mid-cycle due to client requests. It’s okay if it’s not a low priority item for the customer Wants but no need,
I can’t get almost anything done and I’m tired of staying linear. I wouldn’t say I’m tired. Just like orgasms, you’ll know if you’ve had one. The company has turned into a startup with only shortcomings and all the corporate hell I wanted to avoid.
As I mentioned earlier, I (as well as others at the company) are being let go in January. 2026 is going to be interesting, but I think it’s going to be free. I still wish everyone at the company the best, because there are some smart and kind people I will miss.
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