Career ladder Memes

That moment when you're promoted to senior dev by default because the actual senior quit. Now you're just a junior with imposter syndrome and root access. The thousand-yard stare says it all - you've inherited 50,000 lines of undocumented legacy code and the only documentation is "ask Dave," but Dave left yesterday. Time to order a stronger drink.

That moment when your senior dev abandons ship and suddenly you're staring at legacy code like a toddler with a beard contemplating life choices over iced coffee. You've got the title but none of the wisdom. The codebase is now your problem, and you're still trying to figure out why that one function works at all. Time to start drinking something stronger than coffee and pretend those 3 months of experience totally prepared you for this responsibility.

Ah, the battle-hardened senior dev vs. the fresh-faced junior. The senior is literally taking arrows from all sides—office politics, changing requirements, and those ever-looming deadlines—while still finding time to compliment the junior's CSS button. It's the perfect metaphor for tech career progression. By the time you reach senior level, you're not just writing code—you're a human shield absorbing corporate chaos while trying to mentor the next generation who think their biggest achievement is centering a div. The junior has no idea what's coming. None of us did. One day you're excited about button styling, the next you're in eight hours of meetings discussing "synergy" while your Jira tickets multiply like rabbits.