• Steve (unregistered) in reply to Paul M
    Paul M:
    Oh, I'll bet the reason whatsherface's time was overcomitted was that she had left 9000 steaming piles of crap everywhere that only she could maintain.

    Aye. We had someone like that at a previous job. Every year he was praised and lauded by the business for being so responsive to all the problems they had. He received massive bonuses, was employee of the month, year, century. Then things got restructured, and he was moved to a different team. Shortly thereafter he was let go. Someone else took over the app he'd been working on... in a few months it was stabilized and no longer had problems. Of course he didn't receive any rewards.

  • CigarDoug (unregistered) in reply to Paul M
    Paul M:
    Ticket Resolution: Won't fix

    I have been expressly forbidden to fix the code causing your problems, as we cannot bill for that time, only for the time that I spend copy/pasting this paragraph into the ticket system.

    Raising this ticket has cost you fifty bucks.

    Excellent response.
    Francisco D'Anconia:
    If you want to defeat any kind of vicious fraud—comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature.
    Compliance is effective for management stupidity that stubbornly resists reason, as well.

    Ayn Rand quote provided just to annoy those of you trained to reflexively hate her for no good reason.

  • Gumpy Gus (unregistered) in reply to neminem

    The real incident has been tarted up a little bit, but is basically correct. 7000 lines of WTF code that did nothing but garble data. Manager with huge scar down side of face. Lots of shouting. The only reason I stayed there was that it was the only open job that matched my qualifications, right at the crash of 2008. There are a lot more stories about that place, including the boiler-room full of Java programmers, at ten tables, six to a table, cheek-to-jowl. Was glad to get out of that place, even though I was pretty-much frog-marched out of there.

  • Paul Neumann (unregistered)

    It is wonderful that we can be inclusive of the female gender in our IT misfortune fabrications. I just wish that the industry would realize that they are not ALWAYS the cause of such bungling. In my experience, only one of many female colleagues has been less than effective (IMHO). The percentage of male colleagues with a spartan skill level has been much higher.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to Paul Neumann
    Paul Neumann:
    It is wonderful that we can be inclusive of the female gender in our IT misfortune fabrications. I just wish that the industry would realize that they are not ALWAYS the cause of such bungling. In my experience, only one of many female colleagues has been less than effective (IMHO). The percentage of male colleagues with a spartan skill level has been much higher.

    I have worked with some dazzlingly effective female programmers and some sludge-dopey male programmers and all sorts in between of all genders. But the only really ineffective managers I've had were women. There have been some deeply unpleasant male managers, but none have been just so agonizingly and teeth-gratingly irritatingly useless as the three or four women who somehow got themselves promoted into a position of control over a team of software engineers.

  • (cs)

    But the important issue is: did Greg ever manage to date Rashmi?

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    Paul Neumann:
    It is wonderful that we can be inclusive of the female gender in our IT misfortune fabrications. I just wish that the industry would realize that they are not ALWAYS the cause of such bungling. In my experience, only one of many female colleagues has been less than effective (IMHO). The percentage of male colleagues with a spartan skill level has been much higher.

    I have worked with some dazzlingly effective female programmers and some sludge-dopey male programmers and all sorts in between of all genders. But the only really ineffective managers I've had were women. There have been some deeply unpleasant male managers, but none have been just so agonizingly and teeth-gratingly irritatingly useless as the three or four women who somehow got themselves promoted into a position of control over a team of software engineers.

    The most effective managers I've had have been female, and the massively incompetent managers have been exclusively male. It appears we are at an impasse.

  • Jeremy (unregistered) in reply to rashmi

    rashmi, what are you doing here chatting?? Get back to work!

  • Bob (unregistered)

    The whole situation was broken but who in their right mind completely refactors a critical system without getting authorization from their manager and expects that to go well?

  • Code Monkey (unregistered) in reply to WTFE

    They must thank Greg, they went out of that nasty place. Poor Rashmi, being in a place where she is isolated from other human beings. That's abuse!

  • JRI (unregistered) in reply to foo AKA fooo

    You have a person that you do not want talking to anyone else. Yet you stick them in a cube with two (three?) other people? Wasn't there any closet space available?

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