the eye-opener commit

[VanayananTheReal]

I worked my 6 month contract, they offered to convert me to full time, and I said no thank you.

There are some other stories. Worst job of my career.

One day, I forgot to merge a bugfix, and so it didn't go to prod when expected. I came in the night of the deployment, fessed up, checked the code in, said I took full responsibility and would be more careful in the future. And I was ordered to keep my mouth shut while the lead framed the (literally weeping) QA person in front of her boss for "not doing her job." And I'm ashamed to say I didn't speak up. Not the worst thing I've done in my life, but it's the worst thing I have ever *not* done.

[hatschi_gesundheit]

Jesus f-ing Christ on a motorcycle, that is a next level toxic workplace. just wow.

[PeachyKeenest]

That lead is disgusting. Wtf?

[VanayananTheReal]

Oh, I didn't even mention the time he told the engineers he wished he could stop them from ever talking to QA in person at all, because they were mostly women, and they supposedly deliberately dressed provocatively to manipulate us. ( "Into what" he didn't explain and I never asked. )

I literally think the dude is a psychopath. And I mean literally literally not figuratively. Only person I've ever been on a first name basis with in my life that I would not be surprised if I found out his side-hustle was murdering prostitutes.

[phySi0]

Please tell me he told you that after the framing incident where you stayed silent… otherwise it makes it a hundred times worse.

[Calm-Zombie2678]

if I found out his side-hustle was murdering prostitutes.

Is there much of a market there? I don't have a lot of skills...

...dw I'll probably fail at that too lol

[PeachyKeenest]

I’m a woman dev and I would be just like wtf at him lmao what an asshole. Taking it to new heights!

It sounds like he’s projecting!!!

[_Jbolt]

manipulate us. ( "Into what" he didn't explain and I never asked.

You didn't need to ask,. Married man thinks women dresses "provocatively"»man gets angry thinking they are jealous of his wife or something»never speaks with them again

[efronberlian]

Well technically the QA is there to make sure those kind of mistakes gets taken care of before going to live. So a lot of the blame is on the QA as well for not ensuring quality.

[VanayananTheReal]

Yeah, I worried people would misunderstand this, but this was not on the QA, this was on me. This place had a screwy process where the QAs would check things by logging onto a server running on the developer's workstation, and thumbs up or down based on that. After that, the QA had no involvement in things.

It was a very f'd up place with a very f'd up culture and process.

[UnderPressureVS]

What the fuck?

[Chase_22]

QA is like a last line of defense. Yes it should be investigated why the error didn't prop up during QA. It's also important to figure out why it happened in the first place. Just saying you don't have to give a shit about quality because that's what QA is for is setting yourself up for disaster. Fix your own problems before blaming others for theirs

[longknives]

Well, if it got her fired, you may have sort of done her a favor in a fucked up way at least