February 19, 2024
Today was a bad day overall. I woke up earlier than usual since I had to go to my village for a function. I told my family that I would only stay for 2-3 hours and then come back.
Since I was traveling, I took a leave from work. I left for my village around 9 AM. I don’t really like socializing, so I avoided all that and just found a tree to sit under while listening to music.
While I was there, I got a message from my friend and colleague about that annoying guy I’ve mentioned so many times in this journal. He always tries to take credit for our work, acts like a senior, and pushes his tasks onto us while doing nothing himself. Today again, he showed my friend's work as his own and assigned 4-5 more tasks to him. Obviously, my friend got annoyed and told me the whole story. Check the attached photo. Now I really feel like I need to confront this guy.
Despite everything, I did feel peaceful sitting under the trees in my village, away from everyone. But even though I was on leave, I still ended up working. Two developers reached out to me for help with some fixes, so I got on a call and explained things to them.
After that, I left my village. The rest of my family will return the day after tomorrow, so I’m alone at home for the next two days. I reached home around 1 PM and had to take care of some daily household chores since my family had left early in the morning.
I did laundry—put all the clothes in the washing machine, fed the tortoises, and hung the clothes outside after washing. There’s also this nest in my balcony that I’ve been maintaining since 2019. It’s an artificial nest I made using a shoebox, and sparrows have been using it ever since. The top layer (shoebox) was broken, so I replaced it with a new one while keeping the original nest intact. I’ve been doing this every 8-9 months for years. All of this took me around 2 hours.
Around 3 PM, I suddenly got a message that I needed to join a meeting. It was a security meeting involving the security team, compliance, and developers. And guess what? That same annoying guy was there with our RM. Since they are good friends, they were discussing security issues, and once again, all the work we did was presented as if it was his. The RM kept praising him, repeating his name over and over as if he had done everything, even though all the SAST & SCA reports came from automation. Seriously, fuck this. This is the worst work culture I’ve ever seen. (Since this is my first experience, I don’t know if this happens in all companies, but I’m honestly done with this.)
Right after the meeting, I had another call with a developer who had been on leave for a week. She had asked me to retest something before she left. When I retested, I found an issue, so we discussed it. Turns out, the original issue was already fixed long ago, but one fix wasn’t actually working, which is why I found the issue again.
After all this, I went for my daily walk. To my surprise, I walked 7,420 steps from 5:30 PM to 7:10 PM. I didn’t even realize how much I walked—probably because I was lost in my thoughts. My total step count for the month is now 105,160.
Since no one was home, I ordered a tiffin for myself. I ordered chapatis, two sabzis, khaman, two types of sweets, buttermilk, rice, and dal. But when I went to collect my food, I realized the chapatis were missing. Then, while I was trying to check everything, one of the sabzi containers slipped from my hand and spilled all over the floor. Shit. After finishing my dinner, I had to clean up the mess, wash the dishes, and sort everything out.
Also, today I felt bad about myself for some reason.
