Programmer Humor

I'm doing tech support and customer support. The dev team missed their deadline on the launch of the new ERP and launched it anyway a few days later. There are still Lorem Ipsum in some places. We can't even edit client's names or phone numbers yet. We also can't open new accounts for a handful of clients.

I usually can cover for "my" team. We all make mistakes and sometimes things are not going according to plan. But so far it's the worst deployment I have ever seen. I gave up on trying to help clients and I'm now just telling them I can't do anything, while the dev team is telling me they are working on those issues and they should be fixed "in the following days, bro". It's been two weeks of "this is gonna get fixed soon" while I am bullshitting the clients telling them "oh I've been told it would work now, please try again".

I'm tired and they should be better. I just script for fun. I was doing PHP 20 years ago and still host a few services for a handful of people, and sometimes I think I might do a better job than some junior programmers.

Well, that wasn't my experience when I was a junior, every failure was blamed on me, PR is deliberatelty stretched to look like I am slower and worse than I am, it was a lot of suffering but we all have to start from somewhere.

Pretty much. We had the worst junior dev ever and he never got better for a period of two years because he was coddled and allowed to keep submitting horrible code. He was laid off, thankfully honestly, but if there weren't budget cuts I feel like he never would've improved and just kept wasting everyone else's time.

Edit: the point I was making here is that coddling him kept from either being fired or getting better. Not sure why people cannot understand that more than one thing can be true. In this case that the dude is a horrible dev and also that management dropped the ball. I tried to teach him shit. When he didn't improve I let my manager know how things were going. Nothing happened to him for literal years.

And as the cherry on top here he said he was going to start some kind of businessy-sounding machine learning degree program, after he was let go in layoffs. So yeah the dude knows he sucks at coding but definitely wants in on the AI grift.

Yeah i wish mine was like that