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I haven't written code at all these holidays
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I always feel like I lose the trail. I barely ever even take lunch. I recently moved to a tech lead role and I barely have time to look at actual code. I still feel like taking time off is hard because I have to keep constant track of everything or I will completely lose the thread of everything that's going on.
I did get Friday off to drive back home from a working vacation. It felt great. The vacation was stressful as hell because I had family stuff and work stuff intermingled. I literally was in my car fixing an issue with a deployment one minute, boarding an airboat to look at alligators the next, and an hour later I'm in a forgettable meeting in the back seat of the car as someone else drives home.
It wasn't ideal but the vacation was booked before I had to change jobs and I went from being forced to take that week off to having to cover for 80% of my team. I'm definitely getting too old for this shit, but I enjoy it.
Making the new guy take the Christmas shift is a dick move on the part of the team/company.
but christmas shift is imho pretty great for new team members (unless it collides with vacation plans, because the job switch was rather sudden and no one else is there), atleast here it tends to slow going, not many meetings and we get to do stuff that accumulated over the year that we wanted to do, but couldn't for various reasons, so there are enough tasks for which you'll see a lot of the code base and colleagues actually have time for pair programming and such.
and christmas itself is 2 and a half holidays in germany, so that helps too.
You have a point, but in my experience most of your colleagues are out so if you have questions it is harder to find someone who can help.
yep, a team with "enough" workers when everybody is there and not sick is understaffed, working in those teams can become a nightmare the whole year round.
and for questions the colleague does not know the answere to? we are atleast two people with a functioning brain, we can figure stuff out. Most of the time if a new dev asks me something and i have time, i'll comb through docs with them or we debug something together even if i am pretty sure what's to do, because i don't want to become a search engine for my colleagues, i want colleagues who can figure stuff out, so i'll show them how I figure stuff out, and I learn stuff along the way pretty often doing that.
if I don't have time I probably have some links that should lead to answeres and often enough a time window later in the day where we can talk, just because its christmas time and most of my meetings are cancelled :D
I agree, but I didn't have the vacation days. I had just enough for the driving day and I think 5 or 6 days for an anniversary vacation in April.
What shocked me was there was hardly any discernible lightening of the schedule. I expected the week to be pretty light, but I wound up in 8+ hours worth of meetings and deployments every day except Christmas Day. I was given half of Christmas Eve off, but I'd already put in 8 hours by then anyway.
God damn sounds tough...