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 So, part 1 of the day. I have one Jira case, where I have no clue what this or that abbreviation means, and what the uri is supposed to be, and what do you mean by this and by that.

And I asked Brad, where it would be better to ask my questions. And he pointed me to one amazing service that is like a firewall between users and business functionality. That firewall's README is an amazing document. Also pointing to a list of entry points in the system. 2700+ entry points. Not even ordered by applications, just grouped. But it was really very informative.

Then Janet asked, what is the status of that "user role not being passed to the DB". And I pointed to my findings, and Janet said that maybe I'm wrong, because Brad said that it works ok in prod, and that it's just about a long delay in this change propagating to the DB. And I said, ok, probably Brad knows better - but tests are still missing, so it's not verifiable (yet).

Then I turned away from that, and returned to studying this amazing huge firewall.

We were supposed to have a meeting dedicated to that new functionality, but the meeting was moved for later, and later, and eventually to tomorrow. Ok, do I mind?

Then we had a standup. Jeremey showed up and, basically, explained to us that our team is being half-disbanded, half moved to another manager, Rachel. Since we have 4 Rachels in slack, I asked which one, and he said the last name. I looked her up in Linkedin. Here's her path:

This Company
Testing & Business Analysis, Director
Oct 2022 to Present
Technical Business Analysis, Manager
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Technical Business Analyst
Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
Technical Support Representative
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Implementation Coordinator
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017

Previous Company
Probate Assistant / Paralegal
May 2015 - Apr 2016

Some Newspaper
Digital Editor
Feb 2014 - May 2015

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOME SMALL TOWNSHIP
Affiliate Development Assistant
Jul 2012 - Jul 2013

Some company that "unlocks the power of nature to enrich the quality of life"
Purchasing / Administrative Assistant
Jun 2008 - May 2011

Some Construction Services
Office Manager
May 2007 - Jun 2008

Same Newspaper as above
Staff Writer
Feb 2005 - May 2006

Some Company that "for 25 years uses transactional data and machine learning"
Revenue Assurance Lead
Sep 2002 - Aug 2004

Education:
BS, Business Administration and Management, General
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In short, we'll have a general. I think she'll get rid of me within a couple of weeks. Others will run away themselves. We discussed it right away at the meeting.

Then we talked about Scala being a dying language, the future for the team (half of the team)...
In short, they are not getting rid of me yet, although they probably don't know what to do with me.
Then we talked about monads. People are pretty advanced in this team, actually. Pretty advanced.

As a result, I guess, I won't have much to do the next at least several days, and then we will see.
No, I won't be interested in writing in whatever languages they would offer me, and I may just tell them
I'm too old to learn new languages, unless it's Scala 3, OCaml, Rust... not even Kotlin, no.
Basically, I don't even have to work. I'm using my work to make sure that we don't waste our own money
on air conditioners and cars.

Oh, and sorry, I have an interesting problem I found on Quora. It's a cheap number theory problem, never mind.