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Corporate Poetry On A Hat

23 hours ago 131.3K views 0 shares

Ah yes, that childhood dream we all had of "transforming unstructured data into actionable business insights." Right between wanting to be an astronaut and a dinosaur. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever uttered these words without being in the middle of a job interview or writing LinkedIn content after their third coffee. It's the corporate equivalent of telling your date you "enjoy long walks on the beach" – technically words, practically meaningless. Next up: a hat that says "I've always been passionate about optimizing cross-functional synergies to leverage stakeholder engagement."

Printed Hello World To Add Programmer To The Resume

Programming Webdev

3 days ago 139.2K views 0 shares

Printed Hello World To Add Programmer To The Resume

Ah yes, the classic "I'm a computer programmer" resume padding. Notice how it's strategically placed at #5 on the career ladder, right between "Stock Room" and "Police Officer" – as if writing console.log("Hello World") once in a bootcamp somehow qualifies as a career milestone. The true programmer's path involves thousands of Stack Overflow visits and existential crises over semicolons, not a brief stopover between inventory management and law enforcement. This is the tech equivalent of claiming you're a chef because you once made toast.

Product Managers In Shambles Right Now

Agile Webdev Programming Frontend

10 days ago 150.5K views 0 shares

Shopify exec just casually ending the careers of countless "idea people" who've spent years perfecting the phrase "I'll get the devs to build that." Somewhere, a PM is frantically Googling "how to code hello world" while sweating through their Patagonia vest. The ultimate "put up or shut up" moment for those who've been drawing boxes on whiteboards and calling it "product vision."

The Best Morning Espresso Database Disaster

Databases Devops Programming Debugging

13 days ago 168.5K views 1 shares

The Best Morning Espresso Database Disaster

Nothing gets your heart racing like the sheer panic of accidentally nuking a production database table at 8 AM. One second you're sleepily typing queries, the next you're frantically calling everyone while updating your resume simultaneously. Coffee gives you energy, but deleting production data gives you superhuman adrenaline . It's the difference between "I need caffeine" and "I NEED A NEW CAREER." Bonus points if it happens right before a big demo or when the CEO is checking the app.

It Will Replace You Not Me

AI Programming

16 days ago 178.1K views 0 shares

The great AI career pivot of 2025! While MBAs panic about ChatGPT stealing their PowerPoint jobs, developers are quietly rebranding themselves as "AI Experts" after watching two YouTube tutorials and adding a few API calls to their resume. Nothing says job security like slapping "AI" in front of your job title and charging triple your hourly rate. The best part? The MBA who demanded "AI integration" in your app can't tell the difference between actual machine learning and an if-statement with extra steps.

From Sidekick To Overlord: The AI Evolution

AI Programming

23 days ago 139.5K views 0 shares

From Sidekick To Overlord: The AI Evolution

Remember when AI was our cute little sidekick? Now it's the hulking beast that makes us look like the sidekick. Two years ago we were teaching AI to recognize hot dogs. Today it's writing code faster than I can come up with excuses for why my PR isn't ready. Pretty sure next year I'll be fetching coffee for my AI overlord while it refactors my career into obsolescence. Still, at least I know where the power button is... for now.

Do You Mean Unemployment

Golang Webdev Programming Frontend

23 days ago 186.7K views 0 shares

SWEET MOTHER OF CAREER SUICIDE! 😱 Searching for "go for ui" and DuckDuckGo has the AUDACITY to suggest "unemployment" as a related term?! The search engine isn't just returning results—it's predicting your ENTIRE FUTURE! Apparently learning UI in Go is the digital equivalent of writing your own professional obituary. The algorithm knows what happens to those brave souls who venture down this path—their LinkedIn profiles slowly fade into oblivion as they're consumed by bizarre component libraries no human should ever have to endure. The machine has SPOKEN, darling, and it's basically saying "abandon hope all ye who enter here!"

Take Me Back To Blissful Ignorance

Networking Devops Programming

24 days ago 159.3K views 0 shares

Remember that blissful era when your worth wasn't measured by how many connections you had on LinkedIn? THOSE WERE THE DAYS! 💫 Just sitting in a metaphorical field of flowers, completely unaware that someday you'd be crafting the PERFECT profile summary while stalking potential employers at 3 AM! The sheer AUDACITY of existing without knowing what "leveraging your network" meant! Now we're all just digital peacocks, frantically adding skills we barely have and connecting with people we'd cross the street to avoid. GIVE ME BACK MY FLOWER FIELD, YOU CORPORATE MONSTERS! 😭

Average Open Source Contribution

AI Git Programming

25 days ago 164.2K views 2 shares

The grand three-act play of open source glory: Act I: Proudly announce to the world you're a contributor to a prestigious AI project. Act II: Reveal your "critical contribution" was changing messages = messages to messages = encoding in a single line of code. Act III: Transform this heroic one-line fix into a LinkedIn epic where you "led critical efforts" alongside "elite engineers." The resume inflation algorithm is the real AI breakthrough here.

But Now You Get Money For This

Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend

28 days ago 138.6K views 1 shares

Remember pulling all-nighters to code that entire e-commerce platform from scratch for your "final project"? Fast forward to your professional life where writing a simple validation function has you like: "I've contributed enough to capitalism today." The greatest scam in tech is that we wrote entire operating systems for free as students, but now get paid six figures to update a button color and call it a sprint. Work smarter, not harder – that's what the salary is really for.

I'd Quit Too

Programming Csharp C++ Javascript Python

28 days ago 168.5K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of the underpaid code monkey, summed up in a dad joke that's so bad it's good. It's a pun on "arrays" (data structures that store multiple values) and "a raise" (that mythical increase in salary your boss keeps promising). The real tragedy? Most of us would actually stay for a new mechanical keyboard and unlimited snacks in the break room. Our standards are embarrassingly low.

Where's My Job?

Programming

28 days ago 220.5K views 0 shares

LinkedIn tells you that you appeared in 367 searches this week, but somehow those 367 recruiters all ghosted you. The job market in a nutshell - companies desperately "searching" for talent while developers desperately search for companies that actually respond to applications. It's like a dating app where everyone swipes right but nobody messages first.

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