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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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   I\u2019m a backend engineer at a large non-public company. I noticed a bunch of our emails and website riddled with typos. I can not claim that it is metrics impacting or impacting business, so I get that teams always deprioritize, but the overall feel just irks me. Many of these come from a CMS I don\u2019t have access too, so it\u2019s not like I could offer to help with code even if I wanted. When things like this are not in your space, any advice on how to up overall quality?

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   Possibly Mute Senior Engineer asks,

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   I\u2019m currently a senior engineer in a really small startup, and I\u2019ve been here just long enough that I\u2019m deeply familiar with our flagship product in multiple areas - infrastructure, the guts of the business logic, our deployment patterns, our most common failure modes, etc. Unfortunately, I have to be involved in every project and pick the application up off the ground when it dies. As a result, I\u2019ve become spread very thin, and I have to cut corners just to stay afloat (or I am specifically directed to cut corners to meet a deadline). Frequently (because of all the corner cutting), we run into two situations that really tick me off:

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   • I see bad thing on the horizon, talk to my team about it, am ignored, then bad thing happens and I get to have a crappy day fixing it
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   • I recommend a basic best practice, we don\u2019t use it and do some coat hanger + duct tape thing instead, thing breaks, and I get to have a crappy day fixing it.
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   I\u2019m very tired of being on the wrong end of the consequences of our own actions. I pour so much into this job, but I feel like I need to go get my vocal cords inspected, because it\u2019s like my teammates and my manager can\u2019t hear me when I talk about the things we\u2019re doing poorly that lead to bad outcomes.

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   Quit my job? Or is there an easy way to deal with this situation that I\u2019m just missing? I feel like I\u2019m screaming into the void every time I have these discussions and get completely blown off with \u201coh that\u2019s not important right now\u201d or \u201coh that terrible thing could never happen\u201d. Thanks in advance!

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