every job is like this
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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Some jobs do this more than other jobs. 
Mine isn't
Good for you!
Gotta love fake deadlines
Gotta work unpaid overtime now I guess...
Hijacking this casual aside to warn any Jr. Devs against working for IBM - specifically their CIC, which is coloquially known as their "Cheap Labor Department." Not only are you paid way less than market rate for an intro position there (at least, that's how it was pre-covid), but if you get put on a contract they tell you you're supposed to work "at least" 44 hours/week, regardless of your actual workload. The position is, obviously, exempt.
Source: first job outta college. Got some certs on their dime and jumped ship soon as I could. From what I saw, mid-level and senior IBM devs on identical contracts are treated way better, so this warning is primarily for newer folks, and entirely about the CIC division
What's CIC?
Honestly, I can't remember what it stands for. My new place uses the same acronym for something completely different so I can't remember what the original phrase was.
As for what it is, it's the division of low-paid college graduates that they throw onto contracts in order to squeeze more money out of their clients (hence being paid far bellow market rate and having them work an extra 4 unpaid hours a week)
Sadlines, not deadlines. The only effect is some manager experiences mild sadness if it's not made. Nobody dies.
The inflated sense of self is an important way to phrase it. I’ve known execs who weren’t excessively self-confident, but I’ve never met one who didn’t massively overestimate how fucked the company would be if they left.
Sales can't get those bonuses if they only sell actual products.
Or make promises/agreements that are completely out of scope.
“Yes, we are an ice cream company, but we promise to deliver the customer all the hamburger meat needed, at an impossible price”
…. fuckin idiots.
At 5pm somebody once added an email that had an auto responder to a distribution list that was used in a lot of places. As I'm eating my dinner my phone is getting blown up because everything is suddenly getting spammed with delivery failures because the auto responder was getting blocked from blasting everybody on the distribution list. I was like, I'm sorry you've fabricated an urgent situation after hours but I'm gonna eat my chicken now.
And this is why tech companies love hiring young people who haven't yet developed a sense of self-respect or learned yo value their time.
Not just tech.