The \n Nightmare: When Fixing A Bug Ruins Your Career

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$The \n Nightmare: When Fixing A Bug Ruins Your Career$

windows-memes, bug-fix-memes, escape-characters-memes, corporate-humor-memes, newline-character-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

OH. MY. GOD. The universe has a sick sense of humor! 😱 This poor developer fixed a bug where usernames starting with "n" couldn't use their app on Windows because \n was interpreted as a newline in config files. The DELICIOUS IRONY? Only veteran employees with "n" usernames were affected - including their manager, their manager's manager, AND THEIR MANAGER'S MANAGER'S MANAGER who wanted to try the app and now thinks they're a complete moron! 💀

The cherry on this catastrophe sundae? Their reward for fixing this career-ending nightmare and winning a company award is... *dramatic pause*... lunch with the VERY SAME executive who now thinks they're the village idiot! I'm absolutely DYING at this perfect storm of professional humiliation! Someone please check on this developer's will to live! 😂

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