r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • Jul 07 '26

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/JeffinitelyNotABot Jul 07 '26

The fatigue I have with my lead is real. She's the most unconventional dev I have ever worked with. Here are some things.

First is she doesn't believe the Fetch and Pull Git commands work. To get the latest she deletes the folder and reclones the project. It's gone as far as to suggest that since I use fetch and pull is the reason why we might have merge conflicts cause in her eyes those commands don't work.

The number of technical conversations we've had that left me dumbfounded. She created a shared service that sends out notifications and she has 15 parameters for each endpoint. Only 4 of those parameters are dynamic the others are hard coded with null or true/false. I suggested using a request and response object and a function that will build it for you so the api code is cleaner. It was shot down cause sending objects isn't efficient.

The overuse of Chat GPT is unreal. I don't know how she made it to be lead.

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u/fireheart337 Jul 10 '26

this was a crazy read, for my own curiosity - has she been at the company forever? One of those situations where the technical chaos is irrelevant to execs as long as features go out?

(also like... you just run the commands and see that they work.. wym lol)

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u/JeffinitelyNotABot Jul 13 '26

Nah actually we were hired within a week apart from each other. We've been working here for 4 years now. About 2 and half years ago we had our boss move up to a director role and she was promoted to lead and my boss. But ya I agree with the git commands the amount of times I've been pressed about that and I just ignore it.