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I'm not too new to linux, but also not too veteran, has it always has this shit drama? There is always some sort of fucking child throwing a tantrum about some shit. Has it always been the case? It's really getting annoying.
This kind of stuff happens in big companies too, but you don't see it because it's not in a public mailing list. One of my teams had a developer who stood on tables to yell until his opinion was accepted, and one time when another developer wouldn't back down, he threw a chair at them. That angry developer worked there for another 7 years until retirement, while many smart team members around him quit rather than continue dealing with him.
Cannot say I've seen a dev do that in the UK. Anyone would get fired for throwing a chair. Standing on the table yelling would probably get then a bollocking and maybe a warning.
Oh, 100% agree he should have been fired or at least put on a PIP, but my HR dept is toothless.
It depends on how valuable your organization thinks you are; I used to work for a faang company and I got to experience this 2x and the person doing it faced no repercussions since they were well known rockstar software engineers.
Rock star devs are just devs that know the code so can do it faster, probably because they wrote it. Some just hack shit in.
No one is good enough to justify those behaviours.
😂. I'd beat the shit out of the mother fucker. I get that he's a smart developer, but you don't fucking throw a chair at me, bitch.
It has always been like this.
Man, this is so unfortunate :/
Petty much. The big difference this time is that there's a common enemy (Rust) instead of relatively isolated petty crap.
FOSS land is always going to be populated by freaks and geeks. The well socialized devs get jobs at Google. It's impressive the "system" works as well as it does, IMO. Passion is a big motivator.