>>1042216
>>1042266
Alright, I've been interested in coding and programming. Hell, I'm somewhat computer literate in C+ already.
But for most of the time I spent learning it, I've been doing janitorial work in the meantime.
Out of all the underfunded schools and greasy spoons that I worked at, none of their working conditions could compare to Tumblr.
Applying to the job as a janitor was no problem:
>Basic interview shit. "Why should I hire you?" "Do you have any sources of references?" "Can I see your resume?"
>Nailed the interview, and got the job after one solid month of waiting
I will say, for the most part early on, it wasn't too bad. Just basic janitorial work (Cleaning bathrooms, cleaning floors, and cleaning the lunchroom), pleasant architecture, and a paycheck that paid enough for my needs.
But then there was my boss. My boss dressed like they were going to sleepover every night, IMO.
>Wore a different ugly sweater every day that I saw them
>Wore sweatpants in the brightest neon colors imaginable
>WORE FUCKING CROCS
If their looks didn't scare you alone, then there was their smell!
From the first day that I met them, they smelled like an ungodly mixture of some kind of cleaner smell, herbs and ash, and body odor so strong; you'd think they didn't take a shower in months!
Every second week that I was near them, I felt like I wanted to fucking vomit. In fact, I told them that their smell was making me uncomfortable the second time talking to them, which lead to them smelling better the next time I talked to them. Only to have them smelling back to their normal self the next two weeks afterwards.
Then there's their competence at management. I could never figure out what the hell they wanted most of the time. My boss constantly got confused mid sentence, left out important details to me when it came to an issue or got them wrong, and flat out forgetting what they wanted to say to me originally.
But it was okay, I got paid at the end of every week, I worked there from 11am to 3pm and only saw them every two weeks after the first time meeting them.
>But out of the blue in 2014, two years of working at Tumblr, my boss looked at the bit of my resume where I know a bit of coding
>Just asked me in a normal conversation, "Would you like to be promoted to programmer?"
>Was interested, but told them, "I need to think about it."
>They somehow interpreted that as, "Yes, I would love to program."
>Received an email from them a few days afterwards saying that I got accepted to be a programmer and I'll be working from "4AM TO 3PM"!
>I tried telling them I didn't want that position
>My boss said, "Sorry, I'll change it."
Not only did they not remove me from programmer, but they also somehow removed me from janitor.
My first instinct was to get a hold of my boss' boss, but my boss was somehow to dumb to figure out what their boss' contact information was. Insult to injury, when I asked one of my other co-workers how to get in touch with my boss' higher ups or just anyone at Yahoo, turns out whenever anyone sent Yahoo an email about anything going wrong; They just say they'll do something about it, but never do anything!
After that troubling discovery, I then explained to my boss that while I'm capable of coding, I'm not at professional coding levels.
"Oh, don't worry about it!" My boss' exact words.
At this point knowing how much of a shit communicator my boss was along with my parent company not doing shit, I was stuck with a job I didn't want, nor didn't know how to do.
The only upside of my job for a while is that I got to programming at a very sub-par level, and I got paid far above minimum wage for it.
Other than that, everything else was a living hell.
Everyone was overworked and stressed, no one in the programming department met deadlines, and our boss couldn't help us despite being there almost every day for the programmers.
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