[phamilton4]

>Wow, you very accurately explained my life, except i'm on call even more than that.

I'm sorry, it has to be one of my least favorite things about this career. Nothing worse than getting calls off-hours when it's only you. Feeling marooned is never a good thing. I am currently hoping my phone doesn't buzz today! Hope it's quiet for your sake!!! I don't deal in anything lifesaving or absolutely critical, but it sure does feel like it while you're on call.

>And I think somehow you understated the security patching.

Oh yes I do. 8+ critical CVEs on one microservice, you upgrade the libraries/dependencies with the CVEs just to find the new version has 2 other CVEs. Worse yet, you upgrade the dependency and it breaks other functionality (generally from internal dependencies that haven't been upgraded since they were created, LOL). To make matters worse, all of this is inherited and often we had nothing to do with the initial development. I get it, they need to be fixed so there aren't other bigger problems, but it's death by 1000 paper cuts.

>What drives me crazy is I'm always behind, and when my manager asks me to do something, I'm always having to argue for higher priority things that are beyond obvious.

I just wish they would give focus/time to preventing on-call/customer issues so we could all be more rested/fresh/prepared to handle all the changes in priority! Make things so we don't have to spend large amounts of time fixing them. Actually evaluate failure scenarios and address them. Being extremely intentional with our time as a team. I am currently dealing with EOY reviews and displaying my value so I don't have to potentially move for RTO (I despise being in an office and was so incredibly happy to find remote work). 6 years of working remote and suddenly it's a problem from leadership?! I struggle to find the energy to argue lately. Again, it's not even software development related! Weird times.

[AndyNemmity]

I haven't done any end of year work, or prepare for the new year work.

I've worked remotely for 16 years, and now they want me to RTO when I haven't worked in that office in 16 years, and literally no one I work with on any topic is there at that office. I work for a global team.

My team is gone home by the time the office opens...

If they make me go into the office alone, then I should stop having any meetings before my office time, which would mean I have zero meetings. No communication with anyone, alone in n office.

Let alone pending layoffs.

And yet, I have to continue to keep my service up and functional with features for my customers, while balancing everything else.

I'm not sure I've felt this down about my career in the entirety of it. What is the point right now?