Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Nov 6, 2023

It seems every company I've worked at has a person who looms large in their legend.
Like, they're often the person who built the core systems, everything was originally their design, but they left recently and in their absence they've had to hire like 5 more people to try and take over all their responsibilities.

I think next time I'm gonna track down that person, find out where they moved to, and go work there instead

SapphireNov 20, 2023
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️
Pretending here the answer isn't "you had a 3x engineer and made then work like they were a 20x engineer and this burnt them out in like two years and now they're doing woodworking in a log cabin on the top of a mountain in Montana and if you mention computers to them, they'll shoot you in the face"
Nov 6, 2023 at 5:48pmWeb
Show threadParsingphaseNov 6, 2023
@foone Wait, that’s a career option?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Nov 6, 2023
@parsingphase spotted the burnt out engineer
Show threadMomoNov 6, 2023
@parsingphase
(takes notes) interesting...
@foone
Show threadOblomovNov 6, 2023
@parsingphase @foone
which part? Shooting people in the face if they mention computers?
Show threadParsingphaseNov 6, 2023
@oblomov @foone Eh, I meant the log cabin bit. Honest.
Show threadΣ(i³) = (Σi)²Nov 7, 2023
@oblomov @parsingphase @foone not where my mind went. Originally. Before you mentioned it. Now, though...
Show threadOrcNov 6, 2023
@foone Yes, sounds perfectly normal to me. Doesn't this happen to everyone?
Show threadDigital Mark λ ☕️ 🌮 🚀 🌗Nov 6, 2023
@foone Idaho, but same diff (less polluted).
Show threadZoeNov 6, 2023

@foone The guy I'm thinking of wasn't over worked (he was a endless font of productivity dating back decades), but was driven out by office politics.

The part about moving up into the mountains definitely fits though.

Show threadhaifischNov 6, 2023
@foone this is unfortunately common, when I took a job at Blockchains, LLC some years ago I was told the previous development team in its entirety left the company due to the CEO wanting to renegotiate contracts to essentially try to snatch up side-projects.
Tbh I should have taken that as a sign that I shoulda walked outta there first day - well that and my manager somehow scheduled me to start when he was out of office giving me nothing to do for a couple of days at the start.
Goofy company.
Show threadmav Nov 6, 2023
@foone no joke, I've been dreaming of doing this more and more lately. There's a guy on tiktok that makes wood carvings of US states and shows you how to make tea from spruce tips and shit and it sounds like the best way to live life
Show threaddolly partition ~ 41666Nov 6, 2023
@foone criminally speaking, this describes my current work experience and I unironically mention goat farming when ppl want to add an X to my job
Show threadSteve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺Nov 6, 2023
@foone oh god, I would *love* to live in a log cabin and make a living shooting people who mention computers in the face!
Show threadPlasmaGryphonNov 6, 2023
@foone I was in this position. But I made mistake of going to another job for much more pay instead of just going into woods. My boss knows what I am thinking every time I look at the woods out the window though.
Show threadRajel Aran, Nostalgia HunterNov 6, 2023
@foone ... shit, that really is the answer isn't it?
that option actually sounds good right now.
Show threadrequiem 🦫Nov 7, 2023
@foone this is my retirement plan
Show threadDaniel MartinNov 7, 2023

@foone

My honest-to-goodness plan once my kid gets all the way through college is to figure out how to leave and start a local math tutoring business or nonprofit.

Not woodworking in a log cabin since I need the social contact and enforced schedule of other people depending on me, but I should have enough then to walk away.

Show threadEve, Go Listen to Dead Channel SkyNov 7, 2023
@foone All of these people live on the same trans survivalist commune in rural Montana
Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiNov 8, 2023
@foone "Nx engineer" just sounds so cursed. What does the "N," even mean anyways?