AI
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The corporate equivalent of a hostage negotiation where you're both the hostage and the negotiator who forgot their lines. You start as a junior dev writing CRUD apps, then suddenly you're the tech lead, DevOps engineer, scrum master, coffee maker, and the person who explains to management why we can't "just add blockchain to make it faster."
Your title stays the same, your salary increases by 2% (if you're lucky), but your responsibilities multiply like microservices in a system that should've been a monolith. Now you're mentoring interns, reviewing PRs at midnight, debugging production on weekends, and attending meetings that could've been Slack messages. But hey, at least you got that "Rockstar Developer" label in your performance review—which, spoiler alert, doesn't pay rent.
The real kicker? When you finally ask for a raise, they tell you "we're like a family here" while simultaneously treating you like the family member who does all the dishes at Thanksgiving.
