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We did April Fool's jokes at my previous company, and we had to implement code/data changes in order to do so. We never got the time to implement the jokes corr
by yingw787 8y ago
We did April Fool's jokes at my previous company, and we had to implement code/data changes in order to do so. We never got the time to implement the jokes correctly so it introduced technical debt. Then we never got the time to remove said jokes, so they just remained in the system. Repeat for a few years. The jokes stopped being funny after a few debug cycles and just reminded us of our work situation (which wasn't great).
At least two things sadder than not celebrating April Fool's day are having a sad April Fool's day and having every day be April Fool's day.
Maybe silly hats in the office would be better. Don't tamper with prod.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoIf you couldn't back out a feature change at will, and never fix technical debt, then you have far bigger problems.
- yingw787 8y agoWe did have far bigger problems :-) The April Fool's joke just added a cherry on top of a shit sundae. I could have lived without it. I haven't worked at a company yet that implements April Fool's jokes correctly (defined as noticeable improvement to sales/marketing KPIs, which I think is what they would be going for), so YMMV.