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If I'm not on call, I'm not responsible for covering for other people. I CHOSE to assist a colleague... that is my choice. And fast past is always a relative term; it doesn't have to be break neck speed for all tasks.
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"Fast-paced" usually means they have a habit of establishing unrealistically short timelines, coupled with a bloated list of "must-have" features that they want implemented by a small agile team, and by "team", they mean "you".
This message brought to you by CPA (Cynical Programmers of America) - our slogan: "Who ties your shoes for you every day?"
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Leandro Taset wrote: that actually omits the bizarre requirement of "being able to work in a fast-paced environment"?
Funeral home?
Marc
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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i hear funeral homes pay their people pretty well (but don't think they need developers)
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It just serves to make them feel that they work in a fast-paced environment, because they don't want to admit the reality.
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True dat.
Fast paced == Badly organised
veni bibi saltavi
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fast paced - work overtime no pay
team player - no matter what mess you have to clean after someone, you will not piep
self motivated - will work for food
etc ect
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Leandro Taset wrote: omits the bizarre requirement of "being able to work in a fast-paced environment" Snail breeder.
This space for rent
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Find a domain where there are long development cycles; not necessarily in the software itself but in the application of the software.
Traditional domains ( engineering, aerospace, banking/insurances..) have long cycles.
New domains ( mobile apps, games...) have small cycles.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Banking can be very different these days... ever work in front office trading environment anyone?
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trading is not banking.
I'd rather be phishing!
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trading is part of banking
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nope.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maybe working for a non IT company, but in their IT department writing software for them.
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They used to call it "Multi-tasking" or "Many-tasking". Perhaps now that's going away they need something new to inspire developers.
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Leandro Taset wrote: being able to work in a fast-paced environment
This is recruiter speak for "The customer's work environment is so screwed up that they change jobs and tasks on you so fast that you can't keep up".
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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My favorites are
"Must be self starter"
"Must work with minimal supervision"
Then you get in trouble for actually doing both (and not being a team player.)
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"fast-paced" requirements are often written by people who work at a snail's pace or are cr@p at managing their time, so they think any job that requires a reasonable level of output is way too fast.
Either that, or they're added by morons in HR, who took a course that told them to use phrases like that because it makes the company sound cool.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lights & Motion - The Spectacular Quiet[^]
Quite calming, yet epic.
Very nice
P.S. I'm officially renaming the Song of the Week to Sound of the Week as to avoid discussions on the definition of 'song' or 'music'. I'm not saying my sound of the week is a song or even music, it's just a few minutes of sound that I really enjoy
As an added bonus you can still refer to it as SOTW
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For some reason, that reminds me of John Murphy's Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)[^].
And no, it's not that type of "sunshine".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I love that movie and the soundtrack has something to do with that
Lights & Motion reminds me of the Sunshine soundtrack too
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Never heard of him, but I'm glad I have now
His official website[^] could use a little work though... Unless it's retro, like his music
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