My first job out of uni was developing an internal system for a company.

On a certain day, I was the first of my team to arrive. Before I could even get to my desk, a distressed colleague stopped me.

“Hey, can you help me? The system is broken! The tables are cutting off and everything is in the wrong place.” he says.

We go to his desk and he shows me the problem. I grab the mouse and click the Windows maximize button.

“Oh! Thanks, it’s fixed.”

That guy worked there for decades and earned over five times more than me.

I had a coworker who had constant issues with her laptop. Whenever she tried showing it to me, the issue magically fixed itself.

After this happened multiple times, she would just ask me to quickly touch the laptop to fix it. Worked every time!

I had a boss who thought I was slacking off when I opened the “incomprehensible black screen with random letters and numbers”.

Yeah, that one…

I once had a junior calling me in a panic because he didn’t know how to quit nano. NANO!

I must still have a Pentium S with Windows 98 back at my mom’s house. Now I am wondering if it could run Linux.

“updated package-lock.json”

So true! Out of the five jobs I got over my career, three were from referrals.

Simple, it’s not a priority for them.

They care more about their stupid emails than about your money.

I am a software developer at a big bank. The hoops we are forced to jump to just do our jobs are ridiculous.

We resorted to using buggy and laggy remote development environments through a slow VPN.

It’s a miserable life, but at least the pay is good.

You gain efficiency, but lose fun

I use fuck to fix typos