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| 2026-05-29 |
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My manager told me he's leaving the team today.

I have only been on the team for 2-3 months now.
For the first 6 weeks I had no manager, as he was
out on paternity leave. I am the senior engineer
for the team, which meant most of his responsiblities
fell to me. I am happy to fill this role, but the
product I inhereted is in rough shape. It needs
lots of urgent attention (it has active customers).

As a result, I have been able to make little progress
on mentoring and improving my team, on making larger
improvments to our product, or in the persuit of my own
personal goals.

I was very much looking forward to the return of my
manager so we could partner on the support load
and technical direction of the team. It's been getting
better since he got back, even if he hasn't been
super present.

Now he's leaving. Ugh. Our team needs more than I can
deliver, at least with my own morale/energy as low
as it is. I will focus on keeping the people supported
and happy -- even if that means the product will have
to suffer. We will get it into good shape eventually.

But only if we have a team to do it.