This is more programmer humour than a Linux meme, but I’ll bite.
Over a decade ago I worked for a company where I was in customer support, and very much not on the dev team. A customer suggested a feature be added to one of the online tools the company provided. I figured it could be done with a simple bit of HTML and JavaScript, and mocked something up to send to the dev team as an example of what such a feature might look like and how it might work.
My crappy code was copy-pasted wholesale into the site. I have no idea if it’s still there as, for obvious reasons, I don’t have access to that system, but at least one of their other interfaces - one where I retain an account - hasn’t changed visibly since I worked there, so it’s definitely possible.
Arguably, that’s for the best. If somebody with domain knowledge knows enough to make a basic form that’s needed with HTML and Javascript (ignoring keeping the Javascript part), it makes it very easy for the devs to take that, run with it, and turn it into an actual product.
Here’s a rough template of an input questionaire in MSFT Forms, its not actually ready yet as we haven’t set up the actual place the inputs will be recorded, nor set up a way to mirror it into our actual database that our entire intranet uses.
Come back after the weekend, dummy questionaire has replaced the front end of our old system, meaning we’ve just functionally not logged about 72 hours of requests for assistance from the homeless, during a blizzard, and COVID.
After this, our webmaster / marketing director, this woman who earns a quarter mil a year… straight up told me, in an email, she does not actually read anything I write in my emails to her that requires scrolling.
She’s very busy, you see.
When she asked me, unprompted, in an in person meeting, if I could ‘implement the blockchain’ in our (PostGres, not that she knows what that is) database, for ‘security benefits’, I wanted to strangle her to death, but settled on collapsing my head into my hands, then looking up and saying no, that would make everything extremely inefficient and make it much more insecure.
She says, oh really, are you sure about that?
Yes.
Ok then well I guess that wraps up this meeting (shit eating grin) keep up the good work!
This is more programmer humour than a Linux meme, but I’ll bite.
Over a decade ago I worked for a company where I was in customer support, and very much not on the dev team. A customer suggested a feature be added to one of the online tools the company provided. I figured it could be done with a simple bit of HTML and JavaScript, and mocked something up to send to the dev team as an example of what such a feature might look like and how it might work.
My crappy code was copy-pasted wholesale into the site. I have no idea if it’s still there as, for obvious reasons, I don’t have access to that system, but at least one of their other interfaces - one where I retain an account - hasn’t changed visibly since I worked there, so it’s definitely possible.
Arguably, that’s for the best. If somebody with domain knowledge knows enough to make a basic form that’s needed with HTML and Javascript (ignoring keeping the Javascript part), it makes it very easy for the devs to take that, run with it, and turn it into an actual product.
Similar stuff has happened to me.
Here’s a rough template of an input questionaire in MSFT Forms, its not actually ready yet as we haven’t set up the actual place the inputs will be recorded, nor set up a way to mirror it into our actual database that our entire intranet uses.
Come back after the weekend, dummy questionaire has replaced the front end of our old system, meaning we’ve just functionally not logged about 72 hours of requests for assistance from the homeless, during a blizzard, and COVID.
After this, our webmaster / marketing director, this woman who earns a quarter mil a year… straight up told me, in an email, she does not actually read anything I write in my emails to her that requires scrolling.
She’s very busy, you see.
When she asked me, unprompted, in an in person meeting, if I could ‘implement the blockchain’ in our (PostGres, not that she knows what that is) database, for ‘security benefits’, I wanted to strangle her to death, but settled on collapsing my head into my hands, then looking up and saying no, that would make everything extremely inefficient and make it much more insecure.
She says, oh really, are you sure about that?
Yes.
Ok then well I guess that wraps up this meeting (shit eating grin) keep up the good work!
… I no longer work in the tech industry.