Ask HN: What is the most difficult part of your job?

People. Unfortunately, I have to say it is definitely people-but possibly less professionally of me I have to say specifically one person. Who, due to situations that had the outcome of our engineering organization no longer having a manager-has aggressively usurped a 'leadership' role-purely due to seniority-and has displayed a shocking unwillingness to entertain ideas that do not originate from him.

It hasn't been without it's own outcomes.

Like multiple engineers leaving and refusing to work with him any longer, and those who remain saying quite frankly in back channels how the feel about this individual.

More disastrously, though, his behavior has resulted in multiple client facing outage.

So yeah, people. Which is the shame because I love dearly everyone else I work with.

My resignation is already typed up.

I'm also working in a distributed team and working from home and I fell fantastic about that.

Surprisingly the most difficult part of my job is to stop working at the end of the day. I'm so concentrated and into solving the problems that I need to setup an alarm to tell me I should stop working. I never felt so concentrated like this in ages.