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He’s of Italian descent.

Good luck with your new place.

The thing I worry about is the salary and job responsibilities. The interview for the role was completely different from what I am now doing.

It was advertised as a modernization role, and now I’m just a web developer. Do they expect the interview or the current position?

The Senior doesn’t really know Laravel or any advanced patterns that I’d expect a mid level developer to know.

Company is about 1000 - 3000, with a dev team of about 9.

The probation period is my main worry. The project hinges a lot on me and him working well together, so I don’t want to make that not work, or make it struggle.

There’s usually a pretty solid hierarchy in UK companies, at least from a development side. You have the Junior - Mid-Level - Senior progression. It was the same at my last place (I was actually a Senior on the job role) where you have Juniors under the Mid-Level and Mid-Level under the Senior.

I always listened to other developers though, I saw the role less as a “I’m the boss” position and just that I have more responsibility for what I’m doing. If I didn’t listen to some of the Juniors (who haven’t had the time to gain some bad habits :) ), a lot of good things would have been missed.

I’m from the UK, so that might explain why I’m a bit hesitant to get confrontational. I’m still on my probation period so I don’t want to annoy and lose my role.

I like that, I think it might do some good to level with him and just ask those questions outright. I might see if I can muster up the courage to do that tomorrow morning.

He is technically higher than me on the job, as a supervisor, so it feels quite difficult to go to him and say: “Well, I think you’re wrong.”. I know it shouldn’t be difficult, but that type of conflict just isn’t something that’s common to me.

Thanks for your points, there’s some really valuable stuff here.

I’d say he’s in his early 40s, and I try not to be ageist since I’ve had some outstanding older developers that I’ve worked with, but I think he’s perhaps stuck in his ways a little bit.

Unfortunately, it’s just me and him which are building this new API with no other developer involvement. So it’s kind of like a “he said, he said” scenario. Another unfortunate to pile on top of that is that we don’t work in Agile sprints (I’ve worked that for the past 4 years so it’s quite a change for me), so I only speak to the other developers once every 1 - 2 weeks. The only daily contact I have is the “Senior” who is in charge of this specific Laravel project.

I love the idea about sitting with him and talking. At first, he seemed quite cold to me. It warmed up a bit last week but now it’s back to cold, so I’m not sure if I just caught him on a good or bad day, or if I’d said something to upset him.

He was pretty firm about not doing either the OpenAPI or Composer things today, I tried to push a little bit, politely, and just say in the nicest way I could that Google Docs wasn’t the best fit for what we needed and that we’d probably be doubling-up on our work in future. He seems very focused on the time the project will take, and it feels like he sees any suggestions as a burden.

Thanks very much for commenting.

That’s a huge benefit of digital content: you can just delete the file and move on, or change the channel.

Buying a few seasons of a show you didn’t like and then having the boxsets laying around sucked.

I miss when most people had a stack of DVDs or games.

Yeah, I don’t bash them or anything, their choice to use a subscription service. It works for a lot of people. If it’s someone I’m pretty close to, I can turn a Netflix or a Spotify recommendation into a bit of a joke.

Oh yeah, this is awful.

I recently bought a new printer, and getting something like an HP set up on Linux was a heart-breaking experience.

It’d be really nice to have a Kickstarter for an “open-source” printer, where cartridge standards can be produced and you can buy them and use them freely.