• Toxic Positivity: “Everything is always great” and the unspoken rule to never talk about your issues.
• Mental health issues not being taken seriously and/or treatment being forced on you
• Alcohol culture: “if we haven’t had a beer together, i don’t know you”
• meetings. As a programmer i can be super productive, but then i’ll be interrupted by a meeting… and that meeting is an hour long… completely stripping my concentration and now i gotta get it back up…
• retro-meetings … talking about what has been done in the last week… and what we liked and what we hated… i never know what to say “yeah i finished shit” or “i hate working with this shit” but then you have to elaborate…