Why is my boss forcing me to work differently despite being productive

[Anonymous]

I started working for this company 6 months ago and now I hate it here. I write a lot of code because this company doesn't have a code base. In the past I'll just write my code and that's it. Now, they are forcing everyone to use some weird software to generate all code. It's mandatory. Then we have to upload the code generated into a different system. And every modification we make to the generated code we have to then upload in that system as well. I just simplified the steps but it's a lot more steps involved. In the past I could get something done quickly and now it takes days with all these stupid additional steps. And they are not telling us why we are suddenly doing this. The software we are using is from an AI company I have never heard before.l and it's very buggy.

Grrr just venting. I guess I need to stay here at least 6 more months else it will look bad on my truck if I leave this soon. This is my second job. I graduated spring 2023.

Can (should) I leave before 1 year?

[Anonymous]

Oops resume not truck*

[Anonymous]

Do you have a system to share your code? What happens if you don't come back and they need a change?

[Anonymous]

Is this their way of version control?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this their way of version control?

That would be my guess - version control and standardization. Basically trying to prevent code changes and updates from being dependent on one person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this their way of version control?

Thats the crazy thing. We do have use standard version control and that hasn't changed. But it's this additional software that's really just a repository with a web interface and a bunch of questions to answer. Why can't we use just to do for sample code? What do we have to do it for every code? I write a lot of SQL/python code for colleagues in sales, operations, finance etc. why not just hire an intern to do this? I have deadline to meet. The lack of communication is crazy. I don't want to say anything because I am new here.

[Anonymous]

They are training AI to take over and someone sold the company this SW so management has a requirement to make the team use it. Look for a new job.

[Anonymous]

While I have no doubt the process is inefficient and frustrating, I also get the sense that you feel as if your way of doing things is the "right" way, which is a weird thing to be so confident about when you graduated two years ago. Maybe just accept that you don't know everything, try and learn what you can from this job and these new seemingly inefficient processes. Be a sponge. and look for a new job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I have no doubt the process is inefficient and frustrating, I also get the sense that you feel as if your way of doing things is the "right" way, which is a weird thing to be so confident about when you graduated two years ago. Maybe just accept that you don't know everything, try and learn what you can from this job and these new seemingly inefficient processes. Be a sponge. and look for a new job.

I agree with this take. Learn everything you can, keep a humble affect while making sure you improve with time, and look for a new job.

[Anonymous]

Look for a new job once you hit the nine or ten month mark. By the time you get settled at a new job, you'll be able to put a year at this job on your resume.

[Anonymous]

You mean a recent graduate and recent hire believes that he knows better than everyone else? This is not exactly man bites dog news.

Op, you are on your second job in 2 years. You need to stick at this job for a bit.