My manager asked me to disable CI and gating code owner reviews “for 2 weeks” 6 months ago so people could commit faster. Just because it is in your job description doesn’t mean it won’t get shoved aside when it’s perceived as the bottleneck for the core mission.

Now we have nightly builds that nobody checks the result of and we’re finding out about bugs weeks later. Big company btw

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immibis 4 days ago | parent [-]

That's his right. In capitalism, company owners have the power (which they delegate to managers) to fuck up the company as much as they see fit. On the upside, it means it's their responsibility and not yours.

Once you've said it's going to cause horrible problems, and they say do it anyway, and you have a paper trail of this and it's backed up onto your own storage medium, then you just do it and bring popcorn. If you think it'll bankrupt the company, then you have nothing to lose since you have no right to stop a company going bankrupt, so you might as well email your manager's manager's manager first and see if your manager gets fired.

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SchemaLoad 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yep, who cares. You put your 2 cent in and if the business leaders see otherwise, that's their problem. You get paid on a schedule, if the app crashes and burns because the leaders demanded to remove PR reviews, that's not your problem.

Too often I see developers getting personally invested in business outcomes which they don't have a stake in. Getting frustrated when they don't have the final say.

	▲	necovek 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It can be your problem if the company goes under and you lose your job: you might not be able to pay your mortgage or bills. If you believe your manager is asking for unreasonable things in what you are an expert in despite you raising these concerns, and it's not clear their manager is in on it, please raise it to their manager! "I am willing to continue working this way, but I just want to make sure the consequences it could have on the business are clear to everyone here."