Is a peacoat a coat soaked in pee?

But… America is literally Europe 2.0… so, you’re saying Europe is Europe 3.0?

Caveat: I don’t know you or your manager, so your experience may be very different.

But as someone who has ended up in management in three previous roles (not currently) your post brought two thoughts to my mind:

1. For me, I’d far rather people in my team came to me and were open about things. Don’t bottle it up and hope that they’ll somehow guess - they won’t. They’re not psychic and they’ve probably got 101 other things to worry about. Think of it like this: Could you do your job if nobody was ever honest with you about you previous days performance.

2. If you’re tempted to default to thinking of line manager’s as the enemy, consider that in most cases they are just trying to do their best while shouldering 10x the shit from their manager than is making it through to you.

Not saying there aren’t bad and/or narcissistic managers about, but I suspect most of the time they only appear that way due to the screws in their back from above.

I also wasn’t aware so had a search.

If you don’t mind Reddit, this thread is interesting… https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/133lcyl/can_someone_explain_what_happened_with_the/

Or there’s this… https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion

Edit: Actually this is probably the most comprehensive summary: https://schneems.com/2021/05/12/the-room-where-it-happens-how-rails-gets-made/#the-basecamp-incident

Embrace the analogue radio.

Do take rest stops - you won’t realise you’re tired until it’s too late.

Yelp still exists!?

Who is finding a McDonalds location on their phone’s map app and then thinking “I’d better cross-check this against Yelp first”!?