> Then, I’d get a ping from his manager asking on why am I blocking the review.
If you are in a culture like this, you may as well just ship slop.
Management wants to break stuff, that is on them.
If you are in a culture like this, you may as well just ship slop.
Management wants to break stuff, that is on them.
Just because management asks doesn't mean they're siding with Mike.
1. I tried to ship crap and complained to my manager for being blocked. I was young, dumb, in a bad place and generally an asshole. 2. I was the manager being told that some unreasonable idiot from X blocked their progress. I was the unreasonable manager demanding my people to be unblocked. I was without context, had a very bad prior relationship with the other party and an asshole - because no prior bad faith acts were actually behind the block - it was shitty code. 3. I was the manager being asked to help with unblocking. I asked to understand the issue and to actually try to - based on the facts - find a way towards a solution. My report had to refactor. 4. I was the one being asked. Luckily I had prior experience and did this time manage to not become the asshole.
I am glad I had the environments to learn.
Edit: Format.
It really shouldn't be possible to have arguments in a PR over formatting.
This implies that managers will do both of the following in response to the aforementioned breakage:
1. Understand that their own managerial policies are the root cause.
2. Not use you as a scapegoat.
And yet, if you had managers that were mentally and emotionally capable enough to do both of the above, you wouldn't be in this position to begin with.
There is very little accountability in the upper echelons these days (if there ever was) and less each day in our current "leadership" climate.