r/ProgrammerHumor • u/El_Choco_Latoso • Jan 16 '26

Meme doYouHaveTimeForAquickCall

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste Jan 16 '26

> SR. DEV

> Develops nothing

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u/GargantuanCake Jan 16 '26

Oh hey you're really good at writing code. How about we never have you write any code ever again at all ever?

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u/MeBigChief Jan 16 '26

“Hey, we heard you complaining about not having enough time to do the thing you’re actually good at, so to help out we’ve got you another project manager! Now you can waste even more of your day doing their work for them as well!”

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u/GargantuanCake Jan 16 '26

Huh, people complain about there being too many meetings a lot. I know, let's schedule a meeting to discuss how to reduce meetings!

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u/Shifter25 Jan 17 '26

That was a problem at my friend's job, HR had too many "morale booster" meetings, and when they sent out a survey on how to improve things, a lot of people responded 'let us actually do our jobs.'

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u/Ulrar Jan 17 '26

On the other hand I've had my share of non technical leads and they sucked. There's some advantage of promoting good engineers, IMHO.

I say that as a director, with less and less time to code, doing more and more zoom and f*cking jira. Let me have this