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"the [...] developer needed to make the change had been on leave between February and September" Wow. Just wow.
by asuffield 11y ago
"the [...] developer needed to make the change had been on leave between February and September"
Wow. Just wow.
- paublyrne 11y agoPerhaps his holiday time had been miscalculated due to a glitch in the system.
- limeyx 11y agoOr perhaps he/she worked on the holiday time calculator code too :)
- Fjolsvith 11y agoYour comment reminded me of a funny thing. I did a couple years in the Alaskan prison system. The prison I was in served two tacos every Wednesday for lunch. I worked in the computer lab, and as a lark, I wrote a cute program where an inmate could input their projected release date, and the program would tell them how many tacos they had left before their release. Years later, after my release, I learned that the department of corrections had been sued by an inmate who alleged their "Taco Time Calculator" had miscalculated his sentence.
- kzrdude 11y agoParental leave?
- jakub_g 11y agoI think the OP didn't mean the guy's leave length, but a bus factor = 1 of the project
- asuffield 11y agoAny or all of the above. If you find yourself making the statement "we couldn't fix your bug because the developer was on leave for six months" then there is something mind-bendingly wrong with your world. Six months is enough time to hire another developer to fix the bug (even if it's a temp because they're coming back). You don't just... leave it broken for six months. Well, apparently you do.
- jandrese 11y agoMismanagement in the department of corrections? That's unheard of! Especially for their IT infrastructure.
- s_q_b 11y agoMost likely that or short-term disability, neither of which are shameful (not that you implied that they are.) The real problem is that a competent manager would have transferred the work to another dev.
- adrianN 11y agoMaybe the system is byzantine that only this guy understands it well enough to make the change.
- s_q_b 11y agoYeah, that's likely, but it's also a terrible sign of mismanagement. I once worked at a big company that had literally one guy that understood the single sign on system.
- mrweasel 11y agoIf that's the case, then that should be the real story. What if the guy gets hit by a bus, then the issue will never get fixed.
- yread 11y agoSabbatical?
- bryanrasmussen 11y agosince everyone is wondering where this guy was I'll go with 'incarcerated'.
- jjfine 11y agoNo silos!