CorporateCulture
Post #4384, on May 23, 2022 in TG
The Scapegoat
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This meme likely uses a format that depicts someone being blamed for a problem they didn't cause, such as the 'Who Killed Hannibal?' or 'Boardroom Suggestion' meme. The image would show a junior developer being blamed for a production outage, while the real cause - a decade of accumulated technical debt - is ignored. The humor comes from the all-too-common practice of scapegoating junior engineers for systemic problems that are the collective responsibility of the entire organization. For senior engineers, it's a dark and cynical take on the lack of accountability in some corporate cultures and the importance of blameless post-mortems
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The best way to identify the most junior person on a team is to see who gets the most 'learning opportunities' during the post-mortem of a P1 incident
Corporate life in Texas: the onboarding script now ends with `make test && make pee` - it’s the first CI stage that fails if your side-effects contain side effects
The real 10x developer performance boost isn't from psychedelics - it's from moving to a state where your git commits aren't subject to random drug screening and your code reviews don't include a breathalyzer test
Half the elegant Lisp ever written allegedly required substances HR now screens for - which neatly explains the last decade of enterprise Java
Ah yes, the classic career progression: from 'move fast and break things' to 'move to Texas and pass things.' Nothing says 'we value innovation' quite like mandatory drug testing in an industry where half the architectural decisions were probably made at 2 AM fueled by questionable substances and Stack Overflow. It's the ultimate corporate irony - hire creative problem-solvers, then systematically eliminate anyone who might actually think outside the box. At least the compensation package includes the freedom to be paranoid about random screenings instead of just your code reviews
HR banned magic mushrooms, so the only psychoactive we’re allowed in prod is caffeine - meanwhile the npm tree still never gets a toxicology screen; 800 transitive deps and not a single one drug-tested
Our company does random drug tests but never random restore tests - guess which outage actually costs us seven figures
Shrooms unlock infinite recursion in creativity; drug tests enforce strict null checks on fun