start cyber security job am 27, BSc, MSc, 4 years of xp entire team is over 50 with one youngling at 45 none of them have any formal IT qualifications whatsoever boss does not know how to read clearly just reads the first few words of a sentence and guesses the rest only writes in 3-4 word sentences without punctuation and capitalization only time anyone writes any detailed amount of text is obviously with copilot they refuse to use Jira because it’s “too complicated” even though we all have licenses to it and there’s a security project already set up have me log ticket statuses in a spreadsheet instead but only for 2 weeks, after no one checks it all communication is 3-4 sentence emails in threads with 20+ people 100+ emails each going back years boss proceeds to talk about how he feels for the fact women don’t get to speak while not letting me speak a single word almost every time I try to add to a conversation in a group meeting it’s taken as an attack team’s main project is to put the password manager behind the same password manager half of them are constantly having very basic computer problems boss opens group convo on teams only to complain there’s “too many messages” and that he can’t keep up I provide summaries in a few short paragraphs but he doesn’t read them Boss says he doesn’t have access to a system but he’s really just unable or unwilling to locate the sign in button I complete tasks, but they’re never checked on by anyone or followed up by anyone at annual review receive complaints that I’m not doing enough but no specifics how positively I’m perceived on a given day seems to not correlate with any work done seems to mostly depend on how I look in meetings try to make small talk most don’t seem to understand the concept one proceeds to show me his entire house, room by room it’s completely empty and unfurnished wut.jpg ask them if they like to do self-hosting or play ctfs or hackthebox no one has any idea what any of what I said is ask one if he’s seen movie_name Very awkward pause barks: “No” Drops off meeting because he had a windows update He uses a Mac One talks about crypto Huge crypto guy I somewhat jokingly ask him if he’s got XMR he doesn’t know what that is
Honestly bros I don’t wanna be fired because job searching is hell but there’s a part of me that will breathe a sigh of relief when I eventually am. Quirky star wars shit here I come.
stressballs@lemmy.zip 59 minutes ago
Sometimes I’m glad I was a failure. I will never be subjected to this type of success.