The hardest part is getting away without using google services. Tons of apps depend on it especially google maps. There are ways around this, but they don’t always work.

I like this response. Indeed, if we don’t have strong expectations from the devs to finish by a certain time, then we shouldn’t have such expectations on QA.

I am happy there is no obvious “any” type in Rust.

The guy who commented titles are bullshit, had made a post earlier about him being a new manager. Out of everyone who commented so far, you sound like the most experienced.

Indeed, I am officially not a manager. But I wish I was!

Everyone, including me, report to the same boss. This boss is largely absent, and mostly focused on project level, never really thinking on a person level. That is why I have been trying to fill that role.

I do not approve budgets or time off requests. That falls on my boss. He has been messing up the time-off requests BTW, and I had to talk with him on behalf of one of my team members, to get it fixed.

Ah, it is not fully clear - Everyone including me in the team is a contractor. There are no performance reviews. Perhaps in the future we might all be converted into employees, but not now. The one-on-one discussions - is there anything bothering them? Do they like the tasks they are working on? Do they want to work on something else?

Example 1 on 1 result: I have a guy who is great from a technical perspective, but has significant anxiety about public speaking. Simply talking in scrum gave him anxiety. (He is 100% remote) After talking with him about this, I let him skip the scrum calls and just let him write me his updates.

Go to https://programming.dev/search and type “rust” into the communities dropdown

It would be great if someone could build a Lemmy bot to do this for videos.

So which of these is the “sad truth” the title seemed to allude to?

That’s interesting, where do you live?