>got a job at a major bank
>start date kept getting pushed back for a month before I finally got my laptop
>the entire project was a clusterfuck from day 1
>the entire previous team had fled the company without leaving documentation
>the new team spent two weeks trying to figure out how to get the derelict repos running in a local environment
>note: it required a very specific set of permissions and version numbers that was inexplicably different on every single person's laptop
>every time someone updated one of those files, the entire thing broke again
>the company blocked npm, and made us use an abandoned registry with none of the right version
>literally nobody knew how to contact the team responsible, and their phone line was disconnected
>we eventually had to resort to passing around a zip file of the node_modules
>site was designed like a nuclear sub's switchboard and I had no idea how to use it or what it did
>company was literally less competent crypto startup I once worked at where the CEO was 17 the entire office was hazy with bong smoke
>I suggested we make a taskboard multiple times and was shouted down by my managers because we "didn't have enough time"
>got an email about a company event that made it unclear whether attendance was mandatory
>when I asked the project lead he told me "I can't teach you how to read"
>coworkers insisted on phone calls rather than using a chat client due to a severe "writing shit down" allergy
>entire team turned over in the first three months
>before he left, the project lead switched us over to a new database and didn't copy over any of the tables correctly

>>105579273 (OP)

>I had to switch from being a front end dev to 90% back end because I couldn't trust my coworkers to follow the API formats I sent them
>said backend couldn't run locally without being extensively modified extensively to run without the architecture it needed
>every time it was edited, the whole thing broke all over again
>the dogshit was written in java
>I was not hired to do java
>I do not know java
>I told them that during the interview process
>still ended up being better at it than my coworkers
>time went on
>finally got a taskboard
>mine was always conspicuously empty
>when I got tasks, the product requirements were vague, minimalist and so riddled with grammar errors it looked worse than a nigerian prince email
>Id ask for clarifications and never hear anything
>ticket names would refer to the secret alternate names of components that didn't appear anywhere in the code or on the site
>there were multiple projects all with nearly identical names
>we had to abandon the idiot former team lead's database and move to a new one that they gave the exact same name
>we had to clarify whether we were talking about the old-old DB, the new-old DB, and the new-new DB
>didn't have access to the new-new DB
>kept trying to get the right permissions from devops, but they would let them sit for a week before closing them without doing anything
>after a month of this shit, I gave up and hacked my local backend to use the new-old DB

>>105579279

>the vauge shit, permissions issues, and conspicuously empty taskboard continued
>had to ask someone for a configuration file they had.
>ended up ending directly 20 times because they kept trying suggesting incorrect solutions to my problem instead of giving me the damn file
>called them out on it and my supervisor publically berated me for refusing to take phone calls
>despite the fact that I had responded to every single unncessary phone call except the two times they called while I was in the bathroom.
>note: this had nothing to do with a phone call.
>this was the one time they didn't try to call me instead of responding
>tell him that and say that at some point I need to use the bathroom or grab lunch
>"well that's the same for the other engineers too!"
>tell him "then maybe we shouldn't do everything through unannounced phone calls"
>get a message from the project manager who's been absent for months
>he tells me the conversation is unnecessary and not to do it again
>a week passes
>boss tells me that he wants to talk to me on thursday
>it's pretty obvious what's coming
>think this about getting heated
>tfw I'm actually looking forward to telling him to go fuck himself
>it's not about getting heated
>he tells me that the team lead is sick of me having the gall to keep asking how people updated their configs
>because the changes they made kept fucking up the local environement
>and apparently they didn't use that
>they'd deploy to broken code to dev to test it
>mfw he thinks I need hand-holding

I knew. I learned from the very first project of my career that any place that uses java is a shithole. I still took the damn job because I the market was silent, and even though my rent is low my obamacare costs $800 a month. and the worst part is, my dumb ass keeps wondering if they're right and I'm just completely delusional

>>105579285
>>105579279
>>105579273 (OP)
I'm going to become a welder because of your story

So others don't have to read all that garbage
>A developer recounts a nightmare series of jobs plagued by incompetent management, broken processes, unreadable documentation, vague requirements, unhelpful coworkers, and a Java backend mess—culminating in constant technical roadblocks, communication failures, and a growing sense of being gaslit despite outperforming expectations.

@grok is this a true story?

>>105579302
Wish I had seen this before reading this dogshit story

>>105579611
apologies, I have a bad habit of "editing" while I write in a way that leaves the text more fucked up than it was already

Welcome.to professional development. It's almost as bad at fagman companies.

>>105579471
This insinuation is categorically rejected. Any premise implying reliance on unverified, dramatized, or fabricated narrative structures—particularly in digital folklore or AI mythos—is intellectually bankrupt. Elevating anecdotal conjecture to the level of fact without corroboration exemplifies the decay of epistemological rigor. The burden of proof lies with the claimant, and until substantiated, the assertion remains null, void, and beneath serious inquiry.

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose (uwu) flour

2 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 egg

1 cup milk

2 tablespoons melted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract


Instructions

1. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and ~(meow)~ salt.


2. In another bowl, beat egg with milk, melted butter, and vanilla.


3. Combine wet and dry ingredients; do not overmix.


4. Heat nonstick skillet over medium heat, grease lightly.


5. Pour ¼ cup batter per pancake, flip when bubbles form.


6. Cook until golden brown. Serve hot.

>>105579678
garbage recipe. Fats prevent baking powder from rising the mix, too

>>105579678
>>105579687
double shit recipe, you're supposed to cream butter and sugar together and mix dry ingredients separately

>>105579273 (OP)
Competency crisis 101.

>>105581391
thats for cake batter. pancakes arent creamed, they use a different batter thats much thinner. its part of why pancakes are one of the easiest intros to cooking. you dont need techniques or a stand mixer, just a whisk

>>105579273 (OP)
>work for major eu ict company
>project is a huge clusterfuck with no documentation, project management team has zero clue on what is going on, nobody gives a single fuck about anything, people doing whatever the fuck they want all day except for working
>external audit findings and observation overflowing, this years will 100% have classifications and direct escalations towards 300+ blind customers and regulators
>start asking these fags wtf is going on
>"UH OH WE ARE DOING VERY GOOD WE HAVE MANY POWERPOINTS - SEE??? SEEE???????"
>tell them all to fucking kys themselves and got the fuck out of there while it is still possible
fuck this corporate shitshow, so sick of working with pure degenerates