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When I was 20 (c1997) I took this job, it had a FileMaker database for tracking tickets. And then my team mates all had to review that system to manually fill o
by edoceo 5y ago
When I was 20 (c1997) I took this job, it had a FileMaker database for tracking tickets. And then my team mates all had to review that system to manually fill out a Word document with hours.
So I made a little code to pull from FM and put into Word. So we could fill these forms, required for payroll, in minutes rather than hours (not a joke). And my team mates loved it. And then our lead claimed it as his own work, presented his accomplishment to the next boss up, bonus, congratulated and promoted. (Fuck you Ed)
Most folk only got they own back.
It had no impact on my career path and I'm still making stuff GPL and BSD and MIT.
- shadowgovt 5y agoThis is one of the less-obvious benefits of robust version control with authorship history.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoBased on my experience, these problems are not so much technical as political. It rarely gets to the stage where you openly contest your boss saying, "I wrote it, not you, and I can prove it" - because it is often trivial to prove, especially nowadays. But in general you say nothing because you want to keep the job.
- IshKebab 5y agoIf you're at the point where you're going over your bosses head to point out that he's stealing credit it doesn't really matter if you can prove you are right.
- shadowgovt 5y agoOh in my experience it very much does. Companies are loathe to fire someone without a paper trail. Bring them a paper trail and you can unseat an unpopular manager that their bosses have lacked the evidence to fire. ... sometimes. Sometimes the tree is rotten to the trunk. There's no hard-and-fast universal rule here.