I'm being pushed out of my job

> but instead of denouncing them to the manager, chose the path of being a good guy and do my best to help them.

There’s your problem.

My advice would be to be very open about this with your manager and let shit hit the fan next time your coworker push something that will break in production and/or create problems.

The sad reality of many environments is that grunt work that keeps the light on is very often not even acknowledged, and it’s usually more cherished the person who fixes the issues instead of the person who prevents them or never causes them in the first place.

I’ve seen this happen over and over again, sadly.

Another extrema ratio: if you’re not satisfied with your manager’s response, go talk to your manager’s manager.

> While I’ve done a few mistakes...

We all make mistakes. If you are in an environment where making a mistake risks your job, or even your morale, maybe leaving is not so bad.

Even so, I've found that situations like that often can be fixed by talking about it openly. I'd try that first -- say everything you said here to your boss and see if he can help resolve it. It might go well, it might go badly, but either way it will tell you whether or not this is a job worth fighting for.

You're in a lose lose situation imo. You have no allies, especially if your manager isn't backing you up or seeing the same problems you are seeing. Regardless of how you feel about your contributions to the company or its future success, at the end of the day you are just a cog in the wheel and will always be viewered as replaceable. But something you didn' tmention is, what is your goal here, do you want to stay at all costs, or try to find justice? I don't think you'll get justice, but I do see a way for you to just bow down your head and stick to your own tasks, make sure you don't make any more mistakes, and ride out your stock options before you leave. If you want something more, you'd need to play the politics game and find allies in power who will protect you and defend you.

Yes, you need to be investigating for your next job immediately!!!!

First of all software employment is contracting. Its a great time to be a junior or principle developer, but its hard finding a job right now as a senior. If you think you about to be squeezed out you are probably already too late and will be unemployed for a while before landing the next job.

Second, I went through the exact same thing less than 2 months ago. All the warning signs were there. Things like shitty junior developers talking trash, management on the sidelines, no internal automation, everything high risk. Just get out. Its just a job and clearly nobody knows what they are doing.

In my case I have a plan B. A back up career in management in an unrelated industry. Always have a back up plan. My back up plan doesn't pay as much and demands more of my time, but its so much more enjoyable. So much so it isn't even a comparison. Really puts the stupidity of the software employer who lacks vision on what software is in a completely different perspective.

I dealt with almost the exact same thing at my last job, but in my case, the power dynamics were split between two offices and I had a defender pretty high up who had watched me get to work and figure stuff out by being down the hall from me every day.

Nonetheless, in the end the buffoon was more than I could take, so I gave notice, and ended up in a different department. Sure enough, he brought in an expensive vendor to implement a replacement for a thing I had been using to handle file server loads for years without issue. A few months later, sure enough, his black box solution started corrupting files on the network, and he was gone soon after. I would have gone back to the IT dept but I was making more as a Python dev by that point.

I have been there myself and gave in my resign on the spot for falsely being accused of something I didn't do.

In my humble opinion it's time to change job my friend; very few managers exist out there as the exception, but the majority of them don't care about you, nor about your contribution in the company.

You are nothing but a machine component for them, that can be easily replaced with anyone, let alone AI services nowadays.

Good luck.

You don't have an HR department you can discuss with? Just be fully transparent and present your own perspective, all of it. If your HR is professional, they will help getting to the bottom if this. Their job ultimately is to optimize the workforce's output. If your manager is jeopardizing your own contribution to the company, he is not doing a good job and HR should make him see that. One ideal outcome would be an open talk with HR, manager, the trash talker and yourself, in which you all clearly define your personal objectives (what do you want to realize / where in the company do you want to be); could even turn out that these can perfectly co-exist.

If it were me in this situation, I'd take a look at my finances first, and consider when was the best time to leave if I had to, (i:e is it worth hanging in there, or is leaving ASAP consequence-free financially). Then do some research into new jobs. If the market is dead you may need to tread carefully. If when job-searching you get some "bites", you can take more risks. Once you have a plan for what to do if you get fired / job becomes untenable, then at that point, go have a frank discussion with your boss. Tell 'em what you told us. "I've done plenty for this company. Now I'm getting trash-talked by a coworker. I'm not perfect but this is unacceptable and I haven't got time or inclination for playing political games. What you gonna do about it?". It'll either (a) blow up in your face, "managed exit" or whatever, but at least you're planned and primed for that, and better off outta there. Or (b) you actually get respect for doing this, coworker gets the fall-out, you go back to happy times. Good luck. :). The moral as always is, particularly in the hyper-capitalist world we live in, today's great workplace may not be tomorrows's. But at least as decently paid tech workers we can save some "partial FU money" and have options other than treated terribly ......

> Should I leave the company?

Yes.