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by redcat7 2461 days ago
sorry for earlier post, a lot of stuff still hurts.

i'm in poland. my type of manager would be a person who accepts me, gives me clear target and constraints and leaves alone, person who does his job, person who doesn't bullshit me and says the truth if we're in shit or not and realises that we are all on the same boat and we're also waist deep in shit so there is no point in fighting each other.

on 16 IT companies I worked in, there was only 2 such people. that's 12.5%. shouting and batshit crazy behaviors are normal.

someone here wrote that some things are cultural. a lot of stuff is cultural in poland. its a catholic fundamentalists country. so anyone who solves problems is a problem. people here had no type of french revolution or industrial revolution. basically its feudalism in modern dress.

last guy i worked for was freestyling everything. he had no plan. he told me he uses his imagination and he tells people what he had imagined and they have to do it. i found out about this when i was trying to resolve communication issues that i had with him. he often imagined new stuff and forgot to tell me about it and during code reviews he blamed me for not doing what he wanted me to do. i ditched the guy because he didnt wanted to do anything with that problem. the guy sabotaged himself throught the whole time. sometimes he had some strange outbursts.

there is a lot of such people in poland. a lot of office workplaces are like kindergartens. there's constant chaos. no plan. big ideas but nobody wants to wait. people who want things done asap usually are abusing others, not to mention that they are total morons cause abusing people takes time they dont have. most companies are micromanaged.

thing that keeps me going is knowing that, as someone said here, this stuff is cultural and that there are some better places. although after all those companies i'm kinda like a dog from the impound. i dont know how to trust people. word nation is for me the smallest joke possible to say. i'm afraid of polish speaking people.