Please Don't Make Me Write Unit Tests

Ah, the beautiful perversion of incentive structures! When your bonus depends on closing tickets, suddenly every minor inconvenience becomes a golden opportunity. Why solve one problem when you can create two more? This IT hero isn't just thinking outside the box—they're actively stealing boxes from other departments to generate more tickets. The perfect corporate ecosystem: create problems, solve problems, profit. Next week on "How to Game the System": unplugging random network cables and convincing the marketing department that their monitors work better upside down.

Content When you fix the one error that was preventing the IDE from detecting the other 3,479 errors scattered throughout your spaghetti code This evolved into a big fucking problem.

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That moment when your entire career hangs in the balance of a color-coded gauge slowly filling with red. Nothing quite matches the suspense of watching your terminal like it's the season finale of your favorite show. The compilation starts all green and happy, then the yellows creep in, and suddenly you're bargaining with the compiler gods: "Just warnings, please just warnings..." But deep down you know those errors are coming. They always do. It's like watching a horror movie where you're both the victim and the monster who wrote the code.

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The sliver of lime green representing "writing new code" versus the massive navy blue pie slice of "debugging" isn't a chart—it's a documentary of my life. That brief moment of productivity when you write 10 lines of fresh code, followed by the 8-hour descent into madness trying to figure out why your semicolon is causing a nuclear meltdown in production. The ratio is so accurate it hurts. Just another Tuesday.