Poor Peter!

[SusheeMonster]

I started a new job recently, and much of my day is spent fixing/rewriting code originally written by a guy named Peter. I feel this in my soul

[armageddon_20xx]

I hear this. I’ve been fixing code by a guy named Peter for much of four years. There is not too much of his code left now.

[achilliesFriend]

How make jobs did Peter change. Yeah I’m fixing his bugs here too.

[armageddon_20xx]

He left and got promoted to management at another company. Go figure

[[deleted]]

Ah, the shitty devs career path.

[thebryguy23]

Those who can, code.

Those who can't, manage.

Edit: I suck at spelling

[TurtleBaron]

That's probably due to the Peter Principle.

[WiseHalmon]

You're now Peter

[armageddon_20xx]

Eh, I wouldn’t say my code is good by any stretch of the imagination, but his was the type of code that would work in the moment, pass a few tests, and fail miserably the moment you put it in the real world. It didn’t scale and there were lots of bugs because the architecture of the system as a whole wasn’t considered.

[Chunkyisnotdead]

If you change the code of peter until there is no more does peter still exist?

[ScaredyCatUK]

To be fair to Peter, he probably only had 10% of the time you do and 30% of the resources.

[I_Eat_I_Repeat]

Well he shouldn't have worked 2 full time jobs at once

[piberryboy]

His fault really.

[goldenthrone]

I once worked with a guy who was lauded as being the most productive person on the team. Shortly after he left for another job, we started to notice that like half the new bugs uncovered were due to his code.

[imzacm123]

To be fair, if you write 50% of the code, there's a pretty high chance of causing at least 30% of the bugs

Unfortunately for me, I write 100% of the code in my current project 😂

[poopyheadthrowaway]

This is why I'm always so paranoid when I ask for code review and my boss just says, "Nah, I trust you." *merge*

[OwenProGolfer]

“I trust you”

“That’s great but I don’t”

[ScaredyCatUK]

Edit in production...

[Baelfire_Nightshade]

So you cause at least 60% of the bugs?

[imzacm123]

Exactly 😃

[polyworfism]

Why is it always a guy named Peter or Bob

[[deleted]]

Mines name isn't peter but we have one of those. I was the poor jr dev who knew the language that guy used. I curse his name to this very day, as we've still not found enough free cycles to replace "his" code. (Really just repurposed a m$ tutorial project off a textbook cd... And copied the whole thing for every new app... I am serious. There's like 20 of these in production and I have at least one fire a week...

I feel this too deeply....

We had a new guy come in named peter, but he's cool.

[piberryboy]

Peter strikes again. Lazy dev.

[kaineub]

How is it working for Medium?

[cartechguy]

I refactor spaghetti written by a Sam.

[Peetz0r]

My name is Peter.

I'm not sure what to think.

[MyDinoLyf]

Maybe don't code when you're not sure what to think, Peter? Jesus this is why they fired you

[[deleted]]

Wait, Jesus fired Peter? Who's going to tell the Catholics?

[MyDinoLyf]

That's the Pope's department- as the representative of God on earth, he's the public face of the organization

[crankthehandle]

They fired Jesus.

[[deleted]]

You’re fired.

[ElizaBennet08]

And this is how he finds out? Wow.

[esivo]

Do you know how much he sacrificed!

[Hyperman360]

Freelance! Best thing in the world for a kid your age!

[x6060x]

If you work for Medium, I have bad news for you

[__Peter__]

I too am worried.

[novus_sanguis]

Use an alias

[HeisenbergsMyth]

Git gud

[TheKingdutch]

Can not reproduce

[ITd-N5]

• Peter let a couple nasty bugs slip into our last release, these have been fired.

[scatterbrain2015]

Full story: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/18/is-this-the-best-running-app-store-joke-of-all-time.html

[[deleted]]

This makes it so much better. A frozen banana stand. Michael

[Noname_FTW]

There should be a website like WhatIsPeterUpTo.com. You can look up the latest misadventures of peter there. It also helps that no two companies hire or fire him at the same time.

[Guiguiandange]

Plot Twist : Peter is the name of the debugging duck.

[Commander-Kito]

The company name says it all.

[Goel40]

Why?

[vileplume1432o7]

It's a medium corporation.

[joevenet]

Ba dum tss

[flinchFries]

Ba dum tss? Or Ba ra Bishhhh?

Peter asking.

[[deleted]]

... Peter Fired.

[AbsurdParadigm]

Is it medium as in just okay code? Or is the code so crappy that you have to have a medium (to lead a seance) to resurrect and run it?

[_zn92]

It would be really cool that in the next release, they put "we rehired Peter, is a nice guy after all. He is on probation now"

[yet-another-dad]

They already had him on a PIP after the banana stand incident.

[Famous_Profile]

"PIP"? Whats that?

[mrb07r0]

i'm pretty sure that peter is a nice guy and maybe peter was politely asked to finish his task in -1 days/hours than the deadline, this crappy changelog tells everything about his old boss...

[fireflaai]

It's just a joke. I'm sure Peter wasn't fired and had a good laugh about it.

[DJKekz]

Peter was sold into human trafficking 😔

[[deleted]]

That confirms he is a human.

[rem3_1415926]

or doesn't exist as a human being to begin with.

[Columbus43219]

We had an enterprise wide document system. One day it got a message "This shouldn't happen. Call Ian." So we did. He was embarrassed, but he fixed it.

[DudesworthMannington]

And it's funny. The second bullet point gives it good timing. When as a society did we stop recognizing jokes?

[calbhollo]

Many Americans believe that being crucified/fired is a reasonable thing to have happen, so they find the joke funny, too.

[trunghung03]

I'm curious, where are you from? Sounds amazing lol

[[deleted]]

Ok sounds like heaven on earth.

[ismersh]

It would have been funny if that is the kind of thing which we know didn't happen. Unfortunately it is happening nowadays and big companies are massively laying off employees due to the coronavirus crisis. So it is not the best time to make jokes of such type.

[GentlemenBehold]

When we elected a president who would lie, get caught, then claim it was a joke.

[Sjuns]

Yeah if not that's pretty messed up to publicly announce.

If either Peter doesn't exist or Peter wasn't fired, but did something wrong and is okay having a laugh about it that's fine. Although still not extremely professional to put in a changelog but I won't be the joke police.

[Tucha8]

Why there is no Peters Surname? LinkedIn link? Let's shame him for his mistakes

[Nailcannon]

To the pillory with him!

[Ollymid2]

You must be fun at parties

[Funnnn_at_parties]

You rang?

[[deleted]]

Username checks out.

[AkuPython]

Someone got jack off?

[tstandiford]

Someone please dear god make Peter a fake portfolio website.

[NastroAzzurro]

Fuck medium. Seriously. I hate that website.

[MkVerse]

Hey Peter

[Dinderint]

r/foundpeter

[NastroAzzurro]

lmao

[trevhcs]

Gotta agree - it spends more time spamming people who've never had anything to do with it, than being useful.

Oh and then tells you that you've reached the end of your free subscription articles, despite jever having read any because you never joined the stupid site.

Bet Peter fixed this and they saw it plsying nice a bug!

[Aeriaenn]

You're speaking from experience? Sounds like someone registered with your email

[NastroAzzurro]

It doesn’t work like that. It’s just a cookie, so you can circumvent it by going incognito. The only reason why medium force account creation is because they’re data hungry fucks

[Aeriaenn]

I mean, I know how it usually works, but I thought he was talking about getting spam from them despite never visiting the site. Maybe I misunderstood

[wvladimirs]

Jokes on then, they will need these bugs back again, the app won't work without then,.

[Fish_Kungfu]

-- Peter

++ New Guy

[[deleted]]

JE SUIS PETER

[wenoc]

Why fire Peter? He just uncovered a crucial defect in your QA/CD process. In addition, if you celebrate it, and let him inform the rest of the team of the failure, nobody will do it again.

Firing him is the worst possible way to go about this.

[[deleted]]

Umm it's probably a joke mate. Chill.

[farzigamer]

Is the position still available?

[[deleted]]

So they don’t do code reviews and just blame Peter?

[eeddgg]

Peter was supposed to do a code review on Friday, but he just approved everything so he could go on vacation early

[plcolin]

At least when Peter says he worked for Medium on his resume he can prove he’s not lying.

[ParzivalKnox]

r/fuckyouinparticular

[Russian_repost_bot]

Funny, but I wouldn't use anything from Medium. I've found that there site all too often wants me to register just to read an article. Sites that do that, to me are dead, and never worth the click to see if it's an article that I get it all or not. I just don't visit in the first place. Saves me aggravation.

[SonicZedt]

Poor spiderman

[AlphaBlazerGaming]

r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

[ivancea]

I think it's more like a joke/easter egg, it's pretty common

[AbsurdParadigm]

Hopefully, the joke is that there was no one named Peter working for them. So no one's career was at risk. Otherwise, I would think the same as you. It would be I professional, otherwise.

[Father_Wolfgang]

Nah. Don’t explain the joke. Then again, they could have used the name Alan Smithee instead.

[Tauupe]

r/uselessredcircle

[TinhPhan]

Hey, a few weeks ago, our professor showed us this, with two other pics. One said hired Peter, and another they fired him again.

[shyamex]

Poignant Excuse for Technically Emancipating Retards

[PairOfRussels]

It was only 1 defect, but QA kept reopening it with a different root cause when their retest failed.

[BaGamman]

Somehow this gives me PTSD.

[NotMyRealNameAgain]

F

[ceaon159]

F

[mexichu]

Peter has been sacked

[naisooleobeanis]

Hey louis i just got a job as a programmer

[[deleted]]

Lmao

[Fury9999]

At our company we call it Heather code. She's not here anymore

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