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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I did that once. Went to a completely dysfunctional company. Project management was non existent. There was no planing, no defined goals. The project manager, that never before managed a project, literally told me "I think everybody know what has to be done" when I asked for a first assignment.

I though - well I'll just hang out there and get paid, but alas there was 2 hours of meetings, shouting, everybody blaming everybody else, non stop phone calls etc. every day. Home office got cancelled because "you developers aren't productive". If you do nothing (because nobody told you to do anything) you get shouted at, if you do what they tell you to do ("just make a website, it can't be that hard, we need to be at the top of the google search results" - "what should i put on the website?" - "we don't know, but make sure it's at the top") they look at the result and blame you because it isn't what they had in mind when they asked.

Wasn't free money, had to take a long break for mental health afterwards.

Years later, I still look up their project sometimes. The website is the same as when I left.

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

But is it at the top of google search results?

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, if you enter the url into google search.

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