I've dropped out of college (a really good one, you should know it) because I couldn't afford it any more and I'm now working as a .NET web developer (4 years) with people clearly less knowledgeable about programming and the internet in general.
The most senior dev guy (works there for 14 years) is a cocky jog who only knows VB.NET, who advocates the use of POS content management systems such as DotNetNuke. His code is such a bad and unmanageable mess, I could supply thedailywtf with code excerpts for the rest of eternity. When you try to explain concepts such as anonymous methods to him his head explodes.
Do you think we have code versioning? Do you think we freeze functionality, have releases, or even any sort of requirements for our custom modules and libraries? No, every fucking web site has a slightly different version, it's a pure ghetto.
Sometimes I slack off for the entire day, browsing reddit, and with 30 minutes of coding I'm still more productive than any of ny work mates.
These guys don't know what the "cascading" in CSS stands for. "What is a selector?".
When I started I had to fix the all of our web servers, they crashed every day because of simple configuration mistakes.
These are guys that set up the dbs with a full transaction logging only to delete the transaction logs every day because they're getting too big.
"We" now made the decision to move like 400 web sites, (some of them are nationally known and get a lot of traffic), sites that expose public web services, sometimes have custom services running in the background that require os access, and more, to a SHARED web hoster where we don't have any other access than PLESK. Without any migration plan. Bringing up VPS or dedicated hosts will give you empty stares. They now started migrating and realized that well, it's not going to work out like this... durr... "what do we do now?"
These guys make CMS updates on a live server without informing the customers, if they're having a good day they at least don't forget to make a db and site backup first. Ah yeah, we also don't have staging servers. So most of the guys do development on live sites.
I tried to change things, introduce new practices, I tried really hard. But now I'm just bitter. Before I was a nice and outgoing guy, now I'm not even advocating for alternatives and I stopped giving input.
Man... I'm about to throw up