My current job. Fire half the dev staff, leave junior as only web dev with no plans to rehire. Then immediately starts a larger project that we don't have a contract for yet with half baked and fuzzy requirements, due by March. The reason for firing most of the staff? Running out of money and can't promise our jobs 3 months out.

So their solution is jumping into a huge project that's set up poorly with staff being cut? I really think they underestimate the job haha

@dalastTomCruise That we don't have a contract for yet! And maybe hire more people, but we just fired half the staff 3 months ago...and again, they can't promise jobs come November. I am rethinking life choices right now.

@ComradeEevee hang in there. If your future in that company is looking bleak I would play it safe and start job searching while you still have time left.

@dalastTomCruise I already have. I'm the junior in this story. I posted a rant last week after getting yelled at for not working fast enough and having a nervous breakdown over it

@ComradeEevee You actually have the leverage in the story. Don't forget that, they will complete zero projects with no staff. So, assert to them that they can fuck themselves if they take that tone with you. I do it all the time. My favorite line is "at this time, I'd like to remind you how unprofessional it is to take that tone. So I am going to end the call here and when you come back with an apology and a different tone, we will start to work on your problem again." It works every time for me.

@ComradeEevee sorry to hear that. Instead of telling at you for bot working faster they should see what's "slowing" you down and try to assist you where needed. Unfortunately not all management thinks this way

@dalastTomCruise step 1 for fixing the problem is hire another web developer that can teach me.