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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 77 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I (programmer and team leader) get requests from the king (management and project manager) and pass them to the peasants (code monkeys), clean after their shit (QA and code review). I get peanuts in return while the king keep most of the loot.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bob: “why can’t the king just ask the peasants directly?”

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'M A PEOPLE PERSON!!!

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I’M A PEASANT PERSON, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU NOBLES, WHY CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The project manager is your peer, not your king.

[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It all depends on the project and the team. On some, you work with and along the PM and all is good, and other times you get dictated unconnected requests that you need to fight or ignore.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully I've only ever worked in the first environment.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

Lucky, my first 2 dev jobs had PMs that were right out of college business majors with zero web development experience. They were just direct unfiltered conduits between the clients and devs, but with a layer of telephone game and almost no ability to day no to the clients.

It was a fucking nightmare. By the time I did get a good PM, I was pretty much burned out and started my own consultancy (since I’d been managing a small team and doing both dev and PM’s job by then anyway).

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah, so you're the ~~grand vizier~~ court jester.

[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

That definitely define my everyday job experience.

[–] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I get peanuts in return while the king keep most of the loot.

Well, at least this part hasn't changed.