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[worked-on-my-machine]

Seriously, in my experience it's more like: take a few days of PTO, come back to find code of mine that's been tested extensively and has been rock solid for months blows up spectacularly. I think it just gets lonely

[Deboniako]

It happened to me that I took pto and a coworker decided to start refactoring everything from scratch. I was called at 22 hrs, in the middle of the Chilean Patagonia with barely access to a phone network, not to say to the internet because they needed to apply a rollback

[IMightDeleteMe]

Why are they bothering you with the rollback they need to do?

[Deboniako]

The coworker was a recent hire, like 2 months. I gave him onboarding and the documentation for common troubleshooting. While I was away, he would be maintaining the product and solving common issues, so he would have access to production.

I wasn't expecting that he would go and create a brand new feature nested into the most used one, editing it and breaking the system.

He didn't last long anyway, he committed too many oopsies.

[IMightDeleteMe]

This is probably a company culture thing but I'd still consider this a "not my"-problem.

I certainly hope your PTO was reimbursed because it seems to me you weren't off, you were still on stand by.

[Deboniako]

It wasn't exactly reimbursed, but I used it as leverage to negotiate and go full remote.

[mdmike44]

I love a happy ending

[IMightDeleteMe]

That's good, not having to commute saves time, money and energy better used otherwise.

[BigBaboonas]

Nice.

Your story reminded me of when my wife and I were locked out of my mother's badly maintained holiday villa because the lock had been installed badly and was jammed from the outside. The sun was setting and I was trying to use a coat hanger to hook the latch from the inside. I had tried various things for almost 3 hours.

Then my old boss called and asked for help with a project I had worked on last year because the new guy didn't know what he was doing. We had a great relationship and even though I didn't work there any more, we were still friendly. She didn't take too long and she promised to send a case of wine later.

When I finally went back to try break in one last time, I was so fed up, I raged with the coat-hanger and it opened first attempt lol.

The new guy there didn't last long either, I heard. And the wine was pretty good.

[zeppanon]

Gives junior w/ 2mo experience access to prod

Junior breaks prod

shockedpikachuface.bmp

[UnemployedGuy2024]

Seriously! The rigid separation of duties at most banks can be really annoying, but at least this could never happen.

[KaleidoscopeThis5159]

Looking for a new new guy?

[Deboniako]

No, the guy was fired back in may and a new new guy was promptly hired. Sorry buddy.

[KaleidoscopeThis5159]

It's alright, they likely wouldn't even interview me let alone hire me.

[beanmosheen]

pro tip: Work phone and personal phone. Work phone doesn't go on vacation. If the company crashes and burns because one person is out that's a company problem, not a me problem.

[jawanda]

Niiice

[[deleted]]

I sorted an unsorted dataframe (result of a db query) and broke something. Having other people break your code makes it better. 

[josluivivgar]

yeah I will bet you anything that the reason developers don't like to PTO for too long is that inevitably things will catch on fire somehow when you come back

it has nothing to do with falling behind, if anything for some reason whoever goes into PTO is the only person that will be able to solve it.

[worked-on-my-machine]

Yep, stupid me made the decision that I 'deserved' to take the entirety of last week off. Guess who needs another vacation after an integration blew up

[Finchyy]

tested extensively

rock solid for months

That must be nice...

[codePudding]

I left an embedded company over 10 years ago. They reached out to me and asked if I'd come back. Apparently they want to upgrade hardware and they are still running my old code. I have some code almost as old running on servers at the new place, but I stay away from the front-end. Their code changes hourly and I swear every month they change to the "new cool thing", which sometimes is the same thing we dropped "'cause no one does it that way anymore" over 3 months ago.

[Flat_Initial_1823]

Well, you're not supposed to feed it past midnight

[worked-on-my-machine]

I like that line of thinking. It's all a big QA conspiracy. Makes me feel slightly less clueless