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I worked somewhere where the support manager somehow managed to get approval to bill his costs against each product group based on the lines of code in their pr
by ja27 11y ago
I worked somewhere where the support manager somehow managed to get approval to bill his costs against each product group based on the lines of code in their product. We spent part of a week refactoring and reformatting to cut it by 70% before we gave him our numbers.
- egroat 11y agoThat is genious. Absolute genious. There are likely to be less problems on a smaller codebase and when there are its much easier to recommend a rewrite of 1k than 10k
- executesorder66 11y agoThat's brilliant. I would love to know how he reacted and what happened next.
- wmt 11y agoI really hope he was happy that his nefarious plan worked where he managed to make his job easier while improving the product.