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So we got a policy this year that we need to do 4 WFO days a week, otherwise we won't have a 4/5 rating on performance review and we won't get any pay rise.

My question is, what happens if I don't care? I have a pretty good salary package and I don't care if they give me a rise, or even a promotion(I've climbed enough the ladder to a good position above senior).

My manager is really good, and honestly she wouldn't care, but she always gives us a heads up we should follow this new policy.

Honestly, I don't know what are the consequences if I don't follow this policy? I'm pretty confident with my skills, and I can find a similar/better job if I'm fired, but would I get a notice period? So I can have some cards ready to use?

Hi all, I've been living in this beautiful country for the last years and there's something it's traditional back in my country which is be friendly with people you like and paying the bill/drinks.

I've done that a lot of times in Australia, but I feel some people don't accept it. Here few examples:

- I went for drinks after work with my team and paid for their drinks + meals at the pub and one of my mates refused to accept that.
- My wife and I went to the pub for a family's member birthday and I paid for drinks for everyone, but my mum's in law partner refused to accept that and gave me $50 for his drink and his partner's drink.
- Got invited to the pub to catch up with some ex colleagues and paid for the first round + some snacks for us, but one of them asked me why did I do that, and I just said "I wanted to be polite".

So, I'm not sure if paying for drinks/meals for people you like it's seen as rude in Australia? I'm not trying to flex or be arrogant, but in my culture is just being polite/friendly with people that you like, even on birthday's you used to pay for everyone's bills.

Would you feel offended if someone paid your bill? How would you see this behaviour as Aussie?

Hi all, I've been tracking calories since last January. I've started on 111.6kg and now I'm on 102kg. According to my height I should weigh 75/80kg so I need to lose between 22-27kg.

Loosing way have been a long journey for me. So, I want to try Mounjaro, come back to the gym, and keep changing my lifestyle (I haven't been doing any exercise for the last 2 years due to surgeries), but now I'm better and started to go for walks every day to get my body ready to lift weights again.

How can I get an eScript without too much drama? I feel ashamed, and I don't want to talk to much with doctors and deal with that. I just need a eScript and call it day. I'm pretty versed on what should I eat, how should I train etc. the only problem I have had for decades is that I ALWAYS wanna eat. A lot. Specially when I do exercise. I used to go to the gym and after workout I wanted to eat a whole cow. Also, I always have sweet cravings at night time. I think Mounjaro will help me with my appetite to get stick to my target of calories.

I'm planning to book an appointment on My Weight Loss Clinic and go from there to avoid GPs and all the drama. Is this recommended? Any advice on this journey? I feel kinda lost

I think one of my main doubts is about how long should I take this medication? I just need these 22-27kg off and then start building muscles and keep active. How long should this take? According to some research and some posts of other people in this community it seems like 6 months journey?

Hi all, I've been coding for 8 years. Joined a medium company(+400 employees and around 50 devs in different areas) 3 years ago.

I've started as Senior and promoted to Tech Lead 2 months ago and I feel I regret it.

For more context, I've been an IC all time. I love to code, help my team to improve(code reviews, pair programming, debugging). I've been a top performer in all my previous jobs and also on this one. Always picking up the most complex tickets and leading the architecture of how we will build a specific big feature/rewrite, enhance DX, add tests, involved with other teams to give input about architecture or a specific problem we need to fix, you know...lot of cool stuff that makes me happy.

Now, my boss (Principal Engineer) promoted me to Teach Lead of 6 team members 2 months ago and told me I will be 20% helping in management/meetings/admin stuff but also involved in architecture decisions and coding.

The reality is a bit different.

Now, my calendar looks like a PM's one. Around 8/10 hours a week booked in advance to get involved in new projects, new features, discussions with other teams. Few hours helping my team to unblock them(debugging, architecture decisions), also doing lot of code reviews.

I do the maths, and I would have 4hrs a week or even less to "actually" code. I don't get assigned any more tickets, I've asked for tickets to my boss more than 8 times in the last 2 months to my boss and told him "I have capacity, let me help with the most complex tickets you have", and he said "You're doing it great, your performance is not driven by the amount of tickets anymore, you're helping lot of devs right now"

I don't know. I feel I'm not helping or doing anything meaningful anymore. Is this normal? Maybe I was born to be a Senior my whole life?

I miss writing code and I can't do it on my free time for family stuff. So the only time to be "happy coding" is at work time and now I don't have that anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I like to be involved in technical decisions, doing code reviews, helping with the trickiest bugs, or fixing prod being on call at 2am(once in a while of course), but I feel I don't have that capacity anymore.

What should I do?

Move on to another company?

Suck it up?

Learn how to be a Teach Lead and forget about "completing tickets and go home"?

I don't know, I feel I'm going nowhere. Please any advice is welcome.

Hi all, I'm a tech lead of my company and just to make it straight to the point, I've been asked to implement "AI in our workflow to increase development speed. At the moment, everyone on my team uses AI, some people use it more than others, other people bring their own API keys etc, it's a chaos.

Our company pays "copilot licenses", but most of the team doesn't like it(even me). We prefer CLI-first approach with Claude Code and Codex in that specific order.

Now, here is my concern. How do you keep up-to-date business rules, coding standards, best practices, gotchas, etc for multiple repositories(+8)?

Basically, we want "skills" that are stored in our self-hosted Gitlab in md files and sync this repo with any repo that we are working on.

What's the best approach for this?

What I don't want is to install skills.sh and fetch content from internet. We want to setup our own coding standards, our own rules when we do code reviews, etc.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here? Could someone give me any advice? Happy to give more details if needed, but any advice is welcome, thanks

Hi all, just trying to do the math and see what's "normal".

- What are you paying these days? (Monthly repayment)

- Interest rate

- Loan size (optional)

Just trying to benchmark current numbers and get a better idea of what to expect, cheers lads

When I used to go to the office, we usually take 1hr or sometimes 1.5hrs if we have a good chat with the team(boss lives in another state), but when I wfh I just take 30m. I'd like to take a bit more, but sometimes get some messages, or stuff to do and I think it won't be "ok".

What about you guys? How much time do you usually take when you are working from home?

PS: I work 9-5