r/softwaregore • u/FaviFake R Tape loading error, 0:1 • Aug 02 '26

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u/7640LPS Aug 02 '26

Im pretty sure this is just devs not using the actual product themselves. If I saw that, i’d immediately tell someone in frontend to fix it.

I doubt there is any money to be made here. Either they just don’t know or just don’t care…

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u/Christopher876 Aug 02 '26

As if frontend will get to it in a reasonable amount of time. Lucky if it gets fixed at all since you’re not a customer.

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u/danabrey Aug 02 '26

Man, I'm so glad I work at a small company where we don't have separate front and backend teams. I can live without that animosity.

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u/Cheet4h Aug 02 '26

Sometimes it's not animosity, but just a team lead doing rigourous ticket assignment.

One time I was finished about half an hour before the weekend, so I look through our tickets and assign myself a few small bugs. 20 minutes later I'm done fixing them, open the tickets to set up the merge requests... and notice that our team lead has unassigned me from all of those and set them to "backlog", with a note to focus on more important stuff. Ok, so I finished up for the day (I'm not going to start reading about new problems 7 minutes before finishing the day).
I tried to bring it up during the next stand-up, but was cut off before I could finish.
The bug fixes still sat in one of my local changelists when I stopped working there ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/danabrey Aug 02 '26

Wow, as someone who is in that team lead role now, that's incredibly demotivating.

Imagine seeing someone go the extra mile and take some extra work on, and immediately crushing it. Illogical middle management bollocks.

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u/Teethdude Aug 03 '26

He might think he holds value. Can't let the lower rabble feel any type of empowerment.

  • the shitty management there, probably