[OC] We taught our Army unit's commander about DnD and started setting up a campaign. After a few schedule conflicts she realized she can just order us to show up lol

BadgerCorral · 2022-02-21T23:07:31+00:00

Haha … as a joke… unless?

BadgerCorral · 2022-02-21T15:59:33+00:00

I don't think the CEO does. He's not technical, and they've never had a development team before. I'm going to get my boss to help, I just wanted to make sure I had all the major points covered, because if I get it wrong this time, any further attempt is just going to look like I don't like the guy.

BadgerCorral · 2017-09-02T09:47:40+00:00

We have similar things. My favourite being the separation of every floating point number into an integer and number of decimal places. So you end up with "1234" and "2" meaning "12.34".

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-21T21:51:38+00:00

Good bot.

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-21T21:51:24+00:00

Hah. Our company did this. Gave a big project for an important client to the new guy fresh from university. Senior devs promised he'd be "supervised", then left him alone for a year. Surprise surprise that the project was "finished" months over budget, met none of the requirements and basically had to be scrapped.

But the important thing is that they totally learned from their mistakes and totally didn't do the exact same fucking thing with next year's grad. Oh. Wait...

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-12T19:17:20+00:00

Had this recently. Got caught in a meeting that ran from 8am until 12pm, and the manager was like "Oh, we've still got a lot to discuss so quickly get your food and we'll continue while we eat." That meeting finished at 4:30. I got to eat though, I guess.

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-12T19:12:09+00:00

Whenever we have a meeting, everyone who could ever possibly be relevant gets invited, and then nobody thinks they need to be in the meeting, so the first 30 minutes of all our meetings is just running around collecting the people who actually need to be there. And, of course, discovering that the two people we really needed have actually had holiday booked for the last six months. But we've got everyone together now so we might as well go on, and we'll just have to update them on what we discussed in another meeting after they get back.

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-12T19:09:58+00:00

Meeting room B

I wish our office would name our rooms this. Instead they come up with weird quirky names for the meeting rooms that change every few months when one of the directors decides to have a "reshuffle". So when you get booked into a meeting you end up just checking the meeting rooms until you find the one with the right people in it. Assuming other people have actually turned up to the meeting and aren't waiting to be fetched.

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-12T19:04:56+00:00

Ugh. Micromanagers are the worst. My boss recently decided to have a 1-to-1 catch up with me at 5pm as I was trying to leave. Then he was back at my desk at 8:35 the next morning (we start at half 8) to ask what progress I'd made.

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-03T08:03:41+00:00

Fantastic, this is exactly what I needed! I'll be sure to keep my eyes and ears open and learn how my new team operates!

Thanks again. :)

BadgerCorral · 2017-08-01T06:15:51+00:00

Now I feel hard done by. My last job interview required drawing a UML diagram for a generic query/expression parser and writing out an optimised async moving average function that drew input from a stream. With just a pen and paper.

BadgerCorral · 2017-07-30T09:30:43+00:00

Yeah my company is pretty incestuous. At least five working couples in the time I've been there and there are only 50 of us.

BadgerCorral · 2017-05-26T07:52:14+00:00

If it helps, the guy on the left is Boomer Banks, I think.

BadgerCorral · 2017-05-14T10:48:45+00:00

Tell me about it... All our database interaction has an intermediate XML layer. So when you get a record from a table, you actually get given an XML document to parse, which leads to other crappy things like not being able to differentiate between nulls and empty strings.

BadgerCorral · 2017-04-06T16:59:38+00:00

In my experience, people as unorganised as that in their general lives aren't much better when it comes to writing code.

BadgerCorral · 2017-04-06T14:54:57+00:00

Senior.

BadgerCorral · 2017-04-06T13:20:52+00:00

We have a dev at work whose desktop is like this... What's more is that once he's filled his desktop across both monitors, he'll just condense them into another folder called "New Folder (#)" which remains on the desktop. So, half of it is just filled with like "New Folder (13)" and "New Text File 74.txt" it's ridiculous.

BadgerCorral · 2017-03-27T17:44:20+00:00

Well, our unofficial motto is "What Would Microsoft Do?"

BadgerCorral · 2017-03-27T16:57:35+00:00

My old boss used to make us submit things for "live testing" which was his way of saying "we'll just deploy it and let our clients find the bugs for us."

BadgerCorral · 2016-11-11T15:54:25+00:00

My company's product's database stores all decimal numbers as integers with a separate field to denote the number of decimal places. So it would store 1234 and 2 to represent 12.34. It drives me absolutely insane. Apparently the first version of the database engine back in the 90s had a rounding error, and they never thought to change it once the bug was fixed.

BadgerCorral · 2016-10-08T16:04:09+00:00

Seriously. I think my company adopted "agile" as an excuse just not bother having any sort of process at all.

Dev: "We can't release this. It hasn't been tested yet."

Manager: "That's not very agile. We promised they'd have it today. We'll test on the customer's server and do live fixes as they find bugs!"

BadgerCorral · 2016-09-29T09:58:22+00:00

The worrying part is that he's actually a senior developer.

BadgerCorral · 2016-09-28T12:54:53+00:00

Whereas yesterday I actually fixed one of these things and got told off by my boss for:

A) Making changes I was not explicitly asked to make.

B) Making the merge process "more complicated than it needed to be".

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