I've had a lot of productive days where I wasn't forced to broadcast my face for an hour. Can you tell me what I was doing wrong?

Love it, love the spite, but you will actually legitimately lose people who don't want to join a cult. If you wouldn't drive me to the airport for free, then we're not family, sorry. Save that term for, like... people who aren't paid to spend time with you.

You're being downvoted because you aren't being a team player. Now please sign this PIP from your "family".

You're not getting genuine social interactions from people who are paid to spend time with you. If you want genuine social interaction, get a dog.

I think you mean get a cat.

Both logos are already basically circles!

No, a lot of people think this. You just won't find most of them here.

Doesn't sound very monetizable.

I don't need constant feedback, I mostly need to be left alone to do the actual work. Problem is, the Cult of Agile gets nervous by the third daily standup where you just say you're still working on the same thing, because everyone knows no programming activity ever takes more than a large t-shirt's worth of days, however many that is.

I was asked to estimate a major project after a month of onboarding and such, and despite being lied to that the deadline was flexible, management decided the estimate was a suicide pact. Best part is: we all got laid off right as we finished up most of the work.

So yeah. Predicting the future is hard.

And yet Deloitte continues to exist and overcharge and overrun deadlines, and the economy, I'm told, is still doing quite well. Maybe this is all kayfabe and it doesn't actually matter.