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Old, about-to-end processes almost never get updated. Usually, it is the hamfisted brickheads that stick to those stupid illogical wastes that get fired rather than having anything changed.
Then, some poor bloke has to maintain the unsolvable mess and does it for a heartbeat or two until leaving the company.
Then everything stops.
Then, an overpaid tool builds up a whole new mess.
It's the death cycle of letting business majors create operational processes. -
hah! We have the same issue, only we get data weekly. I was brave enough to do the mocks and tests but oh boy. It only shower that half of our systems have unspecified behaviours and/or bugs which we either miss because we got lucky or we just can't notice because when it finally gets to the frontend god only knows what should we actually show so if some items are missing or have errors... at least I know not to shop at them
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@Wisecrack One of my most recent projects (which I am fortunately no longer working on since I switched teams) was to build a no-login, no-database, internal-only frontend for a bunch of microservices to give visibility into them, plus metrics to make sure things are working well, etc. Also, to allow customer service to login (so, logins) and fix issues, keep track of who did what for audit reasons (so… a db), and later: allow merchants to access this as well (so… not internal-only…). Yep, conflating requirements, all in the original spec and tickets.
Not my dumpster fire anymore.
Amusingly, my boss said that was my chance at a promotion “because it will have good visibility within the company.” I don’t want one. I want to leave. Desperately. -
@Root "not my dumpster fire"
I was getting ready to reply "what a dumpster fire" when I saw this line.
So I take it they must have given you the cross-training on minding reading as well.
I just wanna show you guys our branches.
My college:
*buys thousands of iMac for students
*runs Windows on it
*compatibility issues
Fts
Writing Regex be like..
Why yes we have these nine types of transactions mocked. See? The factories make CSV data just like we get in those gigantic CSV files every day that are like ultra-important or whatever.
Wait, you want to actually use the data? to create records? Like build a record like we do in the code? Nonononono that won’t work! Why? Why!? You want us to actually MOCK the data, like make it look real AND MAKE IT PASS VALIDATION? Are you CRAZY!? THERES LIKE THIRTY COLUMNS THERE! No way. No no no way. If you want to do that, you’re on your own. But make sure you don’t break anything with your “improvements” or it’s on you.
Also, all of this is going away soon, so make sure you don’t do anything unnecessary, like mocking all that data. (It’s been “going away” for well over a year now…)
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rant
root writes some specs
root tries mocking some data
hell