Fair Enough

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Fair Enough

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You know that "5 years of experience with React" you put on your resume when React was only 3 years old? Yeah, your employer also claimed their "fast-paced startup environment" was actually a well-organized team with proper documentation and reasonable deadlines. Turns out both of you were playing the same game of professional embellishment. Now you're stuck maintaining a legacy PHP codebase that was supposedly "modern microservices architecture" while they're wondering why you can't single-handedly rebuild their entire infrastructure in a weekend. It's like a Mexican standoff of mutual disappointment, except nobody wins and everyone just silently accepts their fate. The tech industry's most honest relationship, really.

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