u/ChiefAoki

All of this happened after acquisition by a private equity firm(February this year). 70% of departments are being forced to RTO for 3 days a week starting September 1st. Productivity tool that tracks and monitors keystrokes/mouse movement in 15 minute intervals installed on all non-executive employee computers in June. McKinsey was recently revealed to have been hired as a consultant since March.

Should I brace myself?

I recently applied for the Altitude Connect card, it's the only card I have applied from US Bank, I don't have an existing account with them. After I was approved for the card, it was supposed to take me to set up my online banking account but the page errored out.

The error page says:

There's a problem on our end.

It shouldn't last long, so please try again shortly.

I have been receiving updates regarding the card being ordered and shipped, and today I received the email telling me to activate the card, but I have yet to receive the card on hand.

I am starting to think that there was a mistake somewhere and my card got misdelivered to some other address, this has gotta be one of the more subpar experience of online banking I have ever gone through.

tl;dr: switch teams as often as you can, do not accept tech lead positions or any kind of ownership over projects because you are stunting your own career and putting yourself at a disadvantage.

We've all heard it, some CTO/CIO-type giving a grand speech about code ownership, owning the process, or even extreme ownership(after they watched a Jocko Willink video). Don't buy into it, don't accept tech lead roles when offered, move teams as often as you can if you wish to stay in the same org.

I've learned this the hard fucking way in the earlier years of my career: I accepted a tech lead role for a new project, thinking that it would help with future career trajectory and job security. It did not. It was great at first, I felt that I finally had some authority and took great pride in architecting the project and being the final say in what code gets to go out. I had a lot of in-depth knowledge about the project and can diagnose/troubleshoot issues entirely in my mind.

The new project eventually turned into legacy code after a few years and new projects came around. Despite being able to work on other projects in limited capacity as IC's, I am still the go-to person when ops or other devs have questions about the legacy projects, when some hot fixes or features need to go out, I'm expected to drop everything I'm working on and jump on it. I'm not allowed to "leave" this project behind because according to the higher ups, I was too "indispensable", while I watched devs I've mentored and led move past me and gain experience in a broader scope. I knew the end was near when a new project was put on the roadmap that was intended to entirely replace the legacy project I was over; I was not offered any role on that new project, because they needed someone with "fresh ideas".

Job interviews were tough, I could describe the entire architecture to a tee, but all of my knowledge was specific to just that one project. I have essentially pigeonholed myself, and the interviewers knew that. They didn't want someone who has went years studying a single codebase, they were looking for individuals who have seen and worked on many different codebases with different requirements, architecture, and stack.

I was able to dig myself out of this eventually by announcing to my manager that I was "officially" stepping down from my technical lead role and he should look for a successor; I had a four-hour long handoff meeting with a junior dev with the same bright eyes I had many years ago, and by the next sprint I was off working on a different project at full capacity. I still occasionally get an email regarding some super niche stuff in the codebase, but those were far and few in between and don't take longer than 15 minutes to resolve.

Mainly a PSA for the drivers in Central Plains(KS/OK/TX) with a PikePass/K-Tag/Various TX-Tags.

You might be under the assumption that your toll tag works in all of Florida, it does not, there is an Orlando-sized hole in Central Florida managed by CFXWay that WILL NOT recognize your toll tag. You will be billed at full rate if you drive on toll roads managed by CFXWay.

The interop agreement signed 02/27/2023 is for all toll roads in Florida EXCEPT the Orlando area.