#21

I am so here for this casual Hank-Scorpio-burning-with-a-laugh of @epimer

#22

God my 6 year old W530 is such a beast. 5kg including the brick-like charging transformer block. I think it was the last laptop to have a full i7 in it before the slightly slower but more power efficient ones came along.

Hard to know what you mean about ā€˜non-developerā€™ stuff but I think itā€™s probably good to have a wider job than purely dev. Like interacting with customers gives you good perspective, writing documents for other teams helps improve your communications etc. On my side I have had to learn a chunk about running Servers and how to debug issues in them which isnā€™t really my job but so often if you have to wait for the guys whose job it technically is you delay your work and itā€™s also a bit annoying for everyone else expecting things to get done.

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#23

Itā€™s not just my DMs that are open bbz

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#24

weā€™re a bit of an oddity in our department in that i work for a large professional services firm in a team that specialises in remediation and other similar services, and we have our own IT team cos one day way back some guy built something in Access and it helped out so they just expanded on that. but cos my team just kind of happened out of nowhere, thereā€™s no concept of having different job titles or being evaluated against different metrics or whatever, so iā€™m officially a Senior Manager but like fuck could i manage projects or programmes like all the other SMs in my department. so at the end of the year i get marked on how much work iā€™ve sold to clients, or how iā€™ve worked with clients, and i donā€™t do this so i get fucked over compared to ā€œrealā€ SMs. itā€™s great fun :man_shrugging:

i do like to think that my team is good at treating people equally regardless of gender, but we do have the slight issue of having a hugely male dominated team. itā€™s getting slightly better as time goes on, was 100% male when i started in the team back in 2010 and now iā€™d guess itā€™s maybe 85:15 male:female, which is better but still not good enough.

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#25

buenos dias

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#26

Just do the exact same thing and see what happens, including the sweat patches

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#27

My current, grammatically irritating title is

Senior Professional Customer Support

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#28

buenos dias

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#29

my laptop has an i9 in it, which i didnā€™t even know was a thing until i got this laptop and saw the sticker on it. proper graphics card, which i really need for using Office apps and occasionally opening Visual Studio

by ā€œnon-developerā€ stuff i mean ā€œnon-techā€ stuff really. iā€™m quite happy to learn more about infrastructure (iā€™m a AWS certified cloud practitioner, even have an exclusive certified hat i got at an AWS summit :grimacing:), and having originally worked here in one of the operational teams then getting insight into what they need helps gives perspective, definitely - iā€™ve also got some financial qualifications which helps massively when i get asked to build an app to hold info about, say, pensions - knowing what the terms and data points actually mean make it easier to understand the concept and build a better UI. at least i think so. i donā€™t even mind doing presentations or interviewing people nowadays.

the stuff i really cba with is finance stuff, like having to sign off timesheets, raise invoices, chase them up, keep track of how weā€™re doing against the budget, doing plans, replanning every couple of weeks because people keep messing around with whoā€™s doing what. all kind of ā€œproject managerā€ type stuff that i donā€™t really want to get into, but as 95% of my team is made up of contractors as opposed to permanent employees, i kind of have to cos thereā€™s no-one else to do it.

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#30

given i refuse to take off my jumper today as i cba to iron my shirt, i think the sweat patches are a given

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#31

sorry, refuse to vote in a poll where my job is thrown in with social media managers

#32

Developer/analyst/data integration

I design, develop and test (pretty sure I shouldnā€™t be testing my own work) all the bespoke reports for the department/customers, so that engineers can just run a batch file or task to produce the reports on a daily/weekly or monthly basis.

I also do develop SSIS tasks to integrate various customers and our systems together. I also maintain the web portal reporting platform.

Pretty dull

#33

we used to do this, have a proper testing team now. on one project years ago i got asked to drop the test phase for one app we built because it was a waste of time as they trusted me to get it right first time :grimacing:

#34

why?

#35

itā€™s like lumping a snake oil salesman in with a Dr, or a patent Dr in with a real Dr.
#myartispure

#36

This is the same for all developers in companies that donā€™t develop software as a main concern. Iā€™ve spent 20 years at it. The only time anyone ever praises my work is when I fix a problem for them. I wrote an entire intranet content management system for the company last year but received more credit for making a single PDF file easily available for three people.

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#37

sounds very familiar

i do wonder whether i should jump ship and go somewhere thatā€™s actually focused on developing software to at least see what thatā€™s like, but then i doubt that my current skillset would be up to scratch and iā€™d just get knocked back.

#38

Unless youā€™re a Penetration Tester

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#39

is this the filth thread?

#40

they call me a ā€˜solutions butcherā€™

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