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You know that whenever as employees of a company, there is always a team lead. When we make mistakes and the team lead finds out, he will point out the mistake and then comes the forlorn lecture.

Now what about when the team lead or the project manager makes the mistake in his coding. What will become of it?

Here is an example of what my colleague faced and told me about it after many times being told by the team lead. So he decided to see what will be the team lead's response when his mistake was found out instead.

He just came back and located the bug committed by the team lead.
Here was his reply when he told his team lead about it.

Colleague
Just got my first scolding from boss

Rukky
Why?

Colleague
I confirmed his bug, and he said " since you know the problem area, why dont you fix it?"

Seriously I was speechless beyond comprehension. Definitely a quote of the year.

Put Onto Observation

Looks like observation period has started and I do not have the Work at Home privilege. Seems to me that maybe it is a calling that this place is really not for me.

I think I have miss out one part in our conversation. As part of the 1 month observation period, please ensure that you are in office and I will be temporarily rejecting all your W@H request till further updates.

Seems to me I am under scrutiny.

Leaving the Company Letter

Dear Employer,

Thank you for the time you have taken to read this letter. I sincerely hope that it is my best interest to tell you that I have no qualms in sending in this letter.

First and foremost, I would like to thank you for accepting this letter ahead of all things and hoping that you will try to understand what you will read as we read further into this letter.

There is an individual in the team that degenerate the whole team and targeting us new ones. Expectant of a new individual to suddenly revolve themselves in the job scope seems crazy and hard without proper guidance and where expectancy is crazily high for a new person.

For most of the time, I am not interested in petty claims and false accuses as it is not my nature to be bothered about it but since coming into here, it has never stopped. With all due respect, you are great in leading us but due to some bad apples, I find that I can use my talent elsewhere since here I am limited to being an understudy to some of the employees here. Since the day of the so called mistake being pushed to me, I find that I do not trust anyone else anymore. Why trust when someone else wrongly written codes get passed down to me and then me getting the rap all because I modified a different code inside the module with no relevance to the code itself.

Well, furthermore, I doubt I want to work in this environment where I am just a contractual staff. That being said, getting older is what everyone goes through and being old and having a contractual job does not help in determining my future in this company. Believing that it is not just a coincidence, I have seen that many people here are competent in their Java programming skills which I find admiringly good. For me, master of one is great but I am a jack of all trades. In a team, you do not need only Master of One but people also with Jack of all Trades but as of now, I find that this team do not really need a Jack of all Trades kind of person.

It is to my understanding you are a very good employer but with bad apples around. This has made me conclude to this decision which I am sure you will understand.

Here was my scenario all the time working in this place.
I eat alone during lunch time (which is great as I can survive on my own without having a reliance on anyone)
I amuse myself (at least not a bothersome to the many people who needs attention from other people to be acknowledge)

I can assure you, there is not many people who are like me and I guessed this will be the last email or document I will be sending.

Farewell take care and may be we will cross roads once again, either as a competitor or in future employment in another company as long as we understand each another.
Regards,
Rukky

Seriously What Am I?

It seems that I am treated like someone new here. Maybe I should just look elsewhere. Beginning to doubt whether am I actually needed here. No point going to office when no work needed to be done and even things as simple as replacing certain .equals with the StringUtils equivalent needed permission.

Seriously, I have no reason to stay here. It is now time to look for job options in other places.

Wonder if IT city would be the next place to move to?

Checking Out My Location

A scenario happened in office today, looks like there are people who really are monitoring what I do and where I am. I just found out about that and so it seems that it is the case.

Here is how I found out.

Mr Tan
HEY
You're w@h (working at home) today?

Rukky
Nope

Mr Tan
Level 3?

Rukky
ya
L3
Why?

Mr Tan
Nothing.
Bosses didn't see youu
Thought you're not coming.

This conversation was through office communicator. I now see what is happening. More reason to think this is not the best place for me.

Balding More and More in Office

It looks like the trend for programmers is they get bald faster than others. I have seen most of my seniors facing the same problem. What is happening?

Sadly, I am facing the same problem too. Is it time to shift to a more relaxing job? Worse still, I just found out that my senior is younger than me 3 years. The world is upside down and I am not feeling high and mighty right now which I should be.

Error Due to Another Developer Became Mine

So it seems that an error that was supposed to be not me became mine due to an earlier code error which was not written by me. Somehow the problem was due to a negligence in the code previously by another developer.

All because I was to do some simple modification to cater requirements that were not done previously, it is now my problem. Simply said, I think that I want to give up after awhile and perhaps distance myself from here.

Please be informed that the logic in earlier codes are not really correct and some are wrong, but at least they didn’t create this kind of problem. Otherwise how are we going to close our Testing exercise?

As I notice, the problems are coming in after I asked you to enhanced the registration module – to cater multiple account for one single debit card.

I’m not at here to blame anyone, not to seek for a perfect very professional code, but at least you have to test across when you have done any code change. This should be a mandatory action that everyone in the team should follow and I have highlighted this for so many times, during our team meeting, official/unofficial discussion…

I will set my own standard when I receive other people's code now. Never give me lousy basket coding.