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Is Nick in here too?
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Can’t slack here much during work hours then
z
23 hours of work
1 hour of family balance time
h
7 days?
j
now we can all tell nick how we really feel about him
h
I am going to hold on my feelings until the next layoff round 😂
j
I mean, its not like its Nick's best interest to lose more people now 😂
You have an outsized leverage
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Just don’t get promoted
j
I think its always appropriate to push for a promotion, regardless of context. Its a career milestone. So what if it may introduce short term risk vs long term benefit?
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Ya ‘/s’ of course
Post promotion is actually one of the best times to change jobs!
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Not sure if I will see a L4 here though
j
It might be easier as an IC
Now, there is a lot of opportunity
0 competition from others
Your scope is endless
The promo case writes itself
I am dead serious
h
I have self review to write now
j
There was one dude years ago
He wrote his self-review to his leader... "you know what I did"
That was it
Legend
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Wow
j
He was a L5 at the time and had been with their boss for like 5+ years
Always a funny story to tell... because its a true one
Andrii definitely knows them
Rabin Kharki
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bold move
j
The culture was very different back then
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Jordan
Who is going to do calibrations now 😂
Well, there are still leaders I guess. But not ones that have worked closely
j
Answer: not me
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Whatever company you are planning, please see if they can support immigration 😛
j
That said, i am very good at calibrations and promoting the work of the team
I had direct impact on opening the door for L6 PEs at Wayfair
Darach, Bill and Andrii all got it and at W. That's no small feat, especially if you know how the system works
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True
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Jordan that was back when we had a culture
Hahaha
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I remember getting Bill to laugh by just writing yes next to one of the core competencies
j
Hey, I tried to preserve it as much as I could, Brandon
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He wrote his self-review to his leader... "you know what I did"
I should have definitely tried this with Syam 😂
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Nick, we had a serious chat with Zach yesterday and while we initially were leaning NOT to call it Nick’s fault, we ultimately decided to count it as one. We can call it “Nick’s end of an era fault”. Hope it helps 😂
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Nick is fired still up?
z
oh shit
looks like .... not fired
however, I happen to know there's an api to this
n
I think Mike probably still knows the right incantations
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Nick: become CTO and hire us all back
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At this point we could probably just start a competitor
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We can call it FairWay
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Wayfair_new_final ?
j
Wayfair_new_new_new_latest(Final)v2
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this is a wayfair meme I clearly never got in on
j
it’s what we kept calling our college homework and assignments in terms of versioning
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Also, every seating plan ever
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And the nginx puppet module
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Good old nginx_new
Or puppet_cloud
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Better_build
j
Better_build takes me back to 1-1s with Travis…
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oh, that being the primary brnch on the puppet repo confused the hell out of me
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That's partially my fault. I was working on some early days puppet cloud changes and Travis kept breaking image builds all the time. I yelled at him and asked to keep changes in a separate branch till they're done. That branch was better_build
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you yelled at Travis?
Did he immediately apologize to you, as is the Canadian way?
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That part I don't remember, but sounds reasonable
j
so sorry, eh
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"I'm sorry for whatever I did that clearly led to you getting justifiably angry and I will not do it again"
j
eh
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