• (nodebb)

    Doth pride goeth before the missed paycheck?

    Either this:

    Doth pride go before the missed paycheck?

    or this:

    Goeth pride before the missed paycheck?

    Because as written, it's the mock-archaic equivalent of:

    Does pride goes before the missed paycheck?

    which makes my teeth itch. And it should, to match the original proverb ("Pride cometh before the fall."), be "come/cometh" instead of "go/goeth".

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    Anyway, it wasn't his pay check.

  • (nodebb)

    I spent part of my IT career as a vendor to police departments.

    Holding up the pay checks for a group of people who're professionally comfortable with violence is not a wise move.

  • (nodebb)

    We had a consultant working with us, I was never clear on what he was doing, but he sat in his office every day typing away and looking busy.

    More seriously, though, this is ARWTF. Even if we don't know the fine-grained minute-to-minute details of what he's doing, we should at least have a general idea. And why wasn't the consultant's code subject to even a cursory code-review before it went into (dis-)service?

  • (nodebb)

    "And why wasn't the consultant's code subject to even a cursory code-review" Because he was the HPC (highly paid consultant), that's why.

  • Jonathan (unregistered) in reply to WTFGuy

    I've never done IT for police, but the phone bill generating program that I inherited once upon a time had a bug that made it sometimes produce a "detailed bill" (i.e. listing every call made) when the customer hadn't requested it.

    The story told is that one time this led to a guy's wife discovering he was having an affair, and he showed up to the customer service center with a machete. Happened before I was there, and we were doing a complete re-write anyways, so I never did track down that bug.

  • (nodebb)

    Why was Wayne the only one who knew about the backups? That's another WTF.

  • DJ Dizzy Spudplucker (unregistered)

    Let who among us who hasn't deleted a whole column from a production database and rebuilt it quickly so nobody noticed cast the first stone...

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to Reinier

    It's quite possible that others than Wayne also knew about the backups, and maybe it even was documented properly, but - nobody cared. As long as things work, nobody "needs to know" how they work, and then, in a case of accident, nobody "really knows" what to do, even if there's a big red binder labeled "Emergency Procedures" sitting on the shelf right infront of them. "How am I supposed to know? That's not my job! I pay others to do it! Now run, make it work right now!"

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Verily, thou art a scholar and a gentleman!

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