It happens, when you work or focus for long time. Have also experienced code snippets coming in my dreams🙃 Best is to cutoff in between do other things.

Senior Associate

Software Engineer

Like you feel that you heard the notification sound but in reality there isn't any message on teams. I'm experiencing this recently 😇 curious to know about others.

Does anyone hallucinate work message notifications?

Does anyone hallucinate work message notifications?- Grapevine

Since I work remotely, I get a lots of dms asking for *quick calls*.
Every time I see a message, I get slightly panicked. Is it normal?
How do you guys deal with it?

🎧"Quick Calls" draining energy?

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I was thanking god till last month that I had to never hear the teams tune since it is irritating if we don’t pick the call in seconds. 

I wish there could be a hack to change the ringtone.

Microsoft Teams Ringtone

Strategy & operations

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I recently started a new job. I would like to share some of the experiences I have had with my manager. I am wondering if these are red flags or if I am maybe being paranoid or thinking too much.

It was quite difficult for me to get into this company and this job. The company is quite great and I was quite excited but some of the experiences I have had with my immediate manager have made me a bit apprehensive.
I would like to share them and hear opinions about it.

Here are some things which have happened which I have not liked so far - 

1. I speak to a Senior Engineer one day and next day my manager asks me if anyone asked me to speak to him. 
2. I shared an insight about a new tool which we can use on a deployment pipeline on the overall pod (under my skip manager). My manager immediately called me and started asking my status update and replied 'Discussing 1-1' in the group to prevent anyone getting visibility of the idea. 
3. My manager pings me whenever I go offline and recently he asked me in a passive aggressive way, 'Please monitor your Teams status. It was away for most of today.' I now feel kind of paranoid to never get up as I feel my Teams status is being monitored.

Is my manager too much of a micromanaging red flag ? I started a new job and my manager monitors my Teams online status.

Software Developer

Grapevine app is showing 4 notifications but, no notification if I open the app. Is anyone else facing same issue?

Notification issue

Project manager

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Lately I have been going to office often and every time I try to focus and work, some or the other person is on a teams calls talking out loudly. It was really very difficult to work for me. Just curious if you guys also feel the same way or have I just gone all very comfortable working alone at home so even a work calls of other people are annoying me?

Has the workplace become noisy due to hybrid culture ?

Management Consulting

As asked in the title. During office timings, I am really anxious to the point that I am unable to relax during lunch breaks as I am afraid I will get a message or a call that I might have to jump into. I know it sounds stupid, but I spend nearly 10 hours everyday with crippling anxiety. It has become so bad, I am considering quitting to work on myself just to get rid of this anxiety. However the Current market scenario doesn't allow me to me do this. I have asked my friends and family about this, but everyone says 'don't quit', 'work hard' Etc. I am sick of hearing this.

How do you deal with the crippling anxiety for WFH?

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I've been using GPT to do any task I pick up- write code, generating UI palettes, create and check legal docs, writing product copies etc. 

GPT-4 has aced all tests. Recently diagnoed a dog with an ailment better than vets. 

As a result, The only skill I feel like getting better at now is asking GPT questions. I don't see the point in learning anything new if it's all becoming redundant with generative AI. 

Anyone else who's in the same boat here?

Demotivated to learn any new skill after using GPT 4

Product Manager

ghosted after 6 rounds of interview including HR round 🥲

Is this only me or everyone has the same situation here ?

6 round leke kaun ghost karta hai yaar 😡

This was the job I so badly wanted. It's WFH. The actual work hasn't begun. Training phase is going on. It's not even training. They've sent me some material to read and learn. That's it. I don't know any of my colleagues well. I just hear their voices on teams meet. I feel like quitting already.

Is it normal to feel like quitting your new job within a month?

Medical Expert

#Bug...I get notifications but tapping on it doesn't take me to the thread... nothing happens ..

#Bug... Notification Bug

Have anyone noticed frequent glitches where the red signal goes to orange and comes back to red again? Noticing it since a week near richmond circle, near townhall signal and even near domlur. Am I hallucinating or something?

About traffic signals

I didn't get a notification about a DM and I missed a message for half a week.

Tech Folks at Grapevine, please do something so I don't miss next one, I feel bad for not replying :(

DM ka notification nhi aaya

Growth Manager

There is a senior colleague from another team who calls me on my mobile or on whatsapp whenever I do not reply to him on Slack. Sometimes post 9pm. Even when I have set OOO status on my slack and teams. 

The reason I do not reply to him is because he wants favours for his work. It's purely a lack of skillset. He doesn't google but expects me to spoon feed him. I initially helped him, but he has taken me for granted. Eventually, I stopped replying to his messages whenever such requests came. I do not ignore the important requests. 

What do I need to do? Any suggestions?

Contacting colleagues post working hours

Do you think keeping or deleting slack off your personal phones gets you to better mental health and wlb?

Not only slack but any work related stuffs

Slack and work apps on personal devices

Can you please check

It is triggering the f out of me

Hey GV team, DM showing messages when I don't have one

Consultant

Hey fellow devs,

I'm a software engineer and I'm getting tired of the disconnect between the skills recruiters expect and the skills actually required for the job.

In my daily work, I solve problems that are mostly straightforward and don't require extreme problem-solving skills. But whenever I apply for a new role or get approached by recruiters, they always ask for "expert-level" problem-solving abilities, even when the product or service doesn't seem to demand it.

It feels like they're looking for someone to solve world hunger, when in reality, the job is more about maintaining and improving existing systems.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I just being too salty, or is this a real phenomenon?

Share your thoughts fellow devs.

Software Engineering: Where 'Good Enough' Isn't Good Enough for Recruiters

no time to deep work. too frequent interruptions

Does anyone else feel half their time goes in just replying to people on Slack?

i get regular grapevine post notifications on iphone lockscreen , when i tap and open it doesnt redirect to the post mentioned in notification. Why are these poking me to read the one which i couldnt find. solution ?!

GRAPEVINE NOTIFICATIONS

Management Consultant

I normally use mouse ziggler and take sweet nap in afternoon whenever WFH. 😌 
Anyone else has some mindbowling tricks for such slacks ?!

Afternoon sleep in WFH

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I have noticed this thing that when my team works from the office my manager hardly conducts any discussions but whenever we are working from home she would call for like every other thing.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this?

Does anyone hallucinate work message notifications?

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