@Insightfill
We had a bug that would only appear about halfway through the month, then go away at the first of the next month. Turns out that the date was being stored as a string in US mm/dd/yyyy format, but read back as a date. In the UK, it would break starting on the 13th of each month. No repro in the US.
@scottvelez3154
Instructions unclear: I beat up my boss with the laptop that I used to show him the bug
@bcotrim12
Fun story from my Uni. In our engineering school, all degrees have a management course, and during Covid, the multiple choice exam was online. Second year software engineering students decided to inspect the page and found out all the answers. Those geniuses, instead of doing fuck-all for 1h and half and get a 17/20, decided to all deliver a full 20/20 exam in less than 20 minutes. Needless to say, faculty director sent an email to all students on the very next day
@ThisRandomGuyYouDidntNotice
the day you start working for a client/employer, start maintaining a personal "told you so" database of all locations in code that are not profitable to fix (too much work, client won't pay, etc) and check every bug report against those known bads first. your boss will be amazed how quickly you are able to identify the cause compared to your coworkers. but don't ever call those bugs "told you so bug" :D
@rayflyers
You hear that, Yahoo? You just got dissed by sparkling water!
@DusanPavlicek78
That's diabolical 😂 I'm a software engineer and I was once genuinely caught off guard by a prank static screenshot of my desktop -- those icons just wouldn't react at all. It did take me a few seconds. So I can image that your plan might actually work ðŸ¤
@airlag
That's fine until the boss realizes that you are the bug.
@davidjohnston4240
As someone who managed to stay employed for 35 years, my approach was what I called "maintaining lifeboats". Help people out in other parts of the company, be strategic about that so you have a handful of people in other groups that depend on you. Then if you group gets whacked, just say "I'll be off unless you take me into your team" and you will remain employed. I finally took the generous separation offer from my megacorp of choice and I started my own business, so it's only me who can fire me now.
@Mighty_Atheismo
Going around breaking things and then saying "only I can fix this thing" is literally THE Mitch McConnell maneuver. You're quite wiley Alberta! Wiley like a turtle!
@okie161forever
" if you work at Yahoo, you may have some other issues"😂😂😂
@FranciscoTChavez
Reminds me of that one developer that added code that would cause crashes every now and then based on a timer. Since, he was always able to easily fix the crashing issue, they never considered cutting him. Then, he made the mistake of scheduling his vacation at the same time as one of the scheduled crashes. The person filling in for him found the code that was causing the crashes.
@sharkysharkerson
Im still employed since this series started so it must be working.
@EinSatzMitX
I first understood this as a Tutorial to not get laid as a developper, but then i remembered that devs dont need a Tutorial for that
@AnubhavSharmaRangers
My boss is a veteran developer. On a good day, he can dictate you the exact code change you need to do for most of the bugs.
@djsnackcakes2795
Make an API with little documentation and make it integral to the functionality of the program, use niche references as variable names with vauge comments, add a delay to the website if your account in the active directory is removed or suspended, Make an internal app to prime the coffee machine, The list goes on
@joshmeyer8172
I have personally had to troubleshoot a bug that only manifested during the last week of February. Fuck February.
@Luis-eu2ow
You should team up with pirate software. Chaos goblin energy and real help for people with a healthy dose of sarcasm
@chara-y9q
The best thing to do is build a realy dumb inconvenient and complicated system and NEVER MAKE ANY NOTES so if they fire you their kinda screwed
@ghyslainabel
Unfortunately, I am not a web developer, so that would not work for me.
@GeorgeP1066