I find it’s difficult to be around people I treat like shit, too.

B-but Metallica fans bad!

Until a traumatic injury. Then that fucker, along with angry soft tissues, will remind you how much you really don’t have control.

I was told about a bug in a specific tool. It was being used in production. Apparently we’ve gotten a lot of complaints about it over the years, and they would complain if the site was actively used it always failed.

I couldn’t find it in the development branch in source control.

I asked if this tool was purchased from a third party. My boss, who was not a developer, said no. And he was very sure of that. But he didn’t know where the code was.

I was the developer with the most seniority, and I was there for less than a year at this point.

I looked again. I finally found it… In an unapproved pull request from a few years prior.

The meat of this tool basically took information to make an order and create an order in the system.

Any time we needed to insert a record, it would find the highest Id in the table, increment 1, and insert the new record, id and all. It did this for every entity that needed to be inserted. Address, customer… Everything.

Worse, very little validation was done. Want to order something but it’s out of stock? No problem, this tool just pushed it right through.

Want to ship something using a shipping method that doesn’t exist? You got it.

Want to ship something to an address that doesn’t exist? Sounds like the warehouse’s problem.

Knowing about the level of knowledge here, you know that there were no transactions. All sorts of unused records were left in the database when there was an error. The users would get a generic error and try again several times, too.

The worst part was, we have an already existing function that would take order information and try to make an order. And it would give you actionable errors!

Tar, ash, and plant resins

lol oops I used to use trans- as a prefix for myself like 20 years ago. Good to know to keep a space.

Wanting the fruits of their own labor? Damn you, greedy laborers!

Damn, I knew I was doing something wrong.

I worked with someone that I later found out used AI to code her stuff. She knew how to code some, but didn’t understand a lot of fundamentals.

Turns out, she would have AI write most of it, tweak it to work with her test cases, and call it good.

Half of my time was spent fixing her code, and when she was fired, our customer complaints went way down.

I knew people from bigger cities that had metal detectors in the mid-aughts. I think they’re wider spread now, but I don’t know much about schools now. Not sure about X-ray machines, never heard about those in a school.

In the sticks, we don’t have any of the machines. The textbooks are usually older than the pupils too and a lot of the stuff is in poor repair, so it may be an issue of funding.

Wacky tobaccy… Though it’s not too common where I’m from

Old MacDonald had a farm…

Break things… Just not the things that affect me!

That bear seems to really enjoy bussy

The whole time I was reading that, I was thinking “man, I miss the old Cracked. This is gold.”

Then, I saw the author was Seanbaby! I think I know what site I will be wasting time on next.

All time is poo time when you’re close to the boss’s desk

Megacolon sounds a lot cooler than it really is.

Ahh my back. I need money to fix it.

I wish my enemies were more logical. They just make bullshit up and bully me instead. Completely useless for self-improvement.

Not at all. My changes are trash and this button reflects that.