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Why that one coworker got fired for no reason


(Featured image by Camille Couvez on Unsplash) Your manager calls you into a virtual meeting and, after wading through the requisite bullshit small talk, asks what you’ve been working on for the la…

Your manager stands up to their entire chain of command and HR and convinces them “this is all bullshit, MY developer is just a misunderstood polymath!” or that they give into the metrics and fire your ass for underperformance? I know, I know, writing code is the fun part of the job, but if you don’t plan a little, then one thing leads to another and suddenly your pull request balloons into a two thousand line monstrosity. Look, at the end of the day you need to be able to prove you were doing something other than googling meme templates to make jokes in your team channels, and anything that serves up immutable timestamps for that work is ideal.

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