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It's Tuesday, what made you happy last week?

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Lauchs@lemmy.world
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I don’t know about your organization but I’m a dev in a very large non profit and our managers rise through the dev ranks. Which sort of makes sense but is also kind of bizzare. “You’re good at coding, why not organizing and managing people now?” Especially funny as most of my team are lovely people but social interactions are not my team’s strong suit to put it mildly.

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Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
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Yeah the workers becoming managers is always a double edged sword in my experience. They understand the work, but there is deep value with management/leadership training (which they often don’t have).

Ha I know exactly what you mean with social interactions not being the team’s strongest suit!

I also work as a dev, but for an academic working group (not software or compsci).

That’s all good, but I just want to do my job and leave work at work. I don’t want to be contacted on my free-time. Academics don’t understand this way of thinking.

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Lauchs@lemmy.world
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Yeah, the social thing cracks me up as I also work heavily with the events and comms team who are, as you might expect from their unit, fun and gregarious folks who genuinely enjoy each other so it’s a bit of whiplash going from their meetings or social events to ours.

I wonder what proportion of lemmys are devs…

Ha, yeah for a lot of academics I feel their work is their life and they see no reason it shouldn’t be yours too! I hope you’re still able to carve out your own “fuck off n leave me alone” time!

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Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
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Hey I used to stay for coffee with the marketing team of my previous employer because they were more fun!! Lol glad to hear I wasn’t the only person enjoying the comms people! I know exactly how you feel!

Probably a big portion of us, but I hope that it gets diversified. Love reading about other fields as well and enjoy looking at posts from !machinist@sh.itjust.works too on top of dev work :)

Thankfully I can, they haven’t yet followed me home ;) hope you are enjoying your work environment as well apart from micromanaging and socially awkward devs!

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