Well Well Well... If It Isn't The Consequences Of My Own Actions

Content robin dreamsofsloth 1d the first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining. he then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf?? 9 67 17 822 4,373 Show this thread

Ah yes, the classic "my encryption key expired because of daylight saving time" excuse. That's like blaming your missing semicolons on Mercury being in retrograde. For the uninitiated, RSA keys don't actually "expire" due to time changes—they're cryptographic keys, not yogurt. And that shocked expression is exactly how security engineers look when someone suggests their SSH connection failed because their 512-bit key (already dangerously outdated) somehow got confused by the clocks changing. Next time your upload fails, just admit you tried to push directly to production at 4:59 PM on a Friday. We've all been there.

The eternal dev team dynamic captured in its purest form. That tall, quiet backend engineer who wrote 99% of the codebase, debugged every production issue at 2AM, and knows where all the technical debt bodies are buried... standing awkwardly next to the charismatic frontend dev who's about to dazzle management with buzzwords and hand gestures while taking 90% of the credit. Every team has this symbiotic relationship - the silent code wizard who actually implements the impossible requirements and the presentation ninja who somehow convinces stakeholders that everything went "according to plan." The perfect yin-yang of software development.

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Ah, the classic "it's not broken, so don't fix it" philosophy taken to its logical extreme! This rickety tower of sticks and mud is somehow still standing—much like that legacy codebase written by the guy who left 5 years ago. Sure, it looks like it might collapse if you sneeze in its general direction, but hey, "The program is stable"! This is what happens when technical debt becomes load-bearing. One wrong move and you'll be spending your weekend debugging the apocalypse. The perfect metaphor for that production system held together by duct tape, prayers, and that one mysterious function nobody understands but everyone fears.

When your code review finally gets personal. This guy skipped all the polite GitHub comments like "consider refactoring this method" and went straight for the jugular. Reminds me of that senior dev who once told me my variable naming convention was "a crime against humanity." The truth hurts, but at least he didn't create a PowerPoint presentation about my nested if statements.