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The most applauded programmers at my first job were the communications protocol guys. They'd ship broken code then go to the customer site and patch it. Heros!
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
The most applauded programmers at my first job were the communications protocol guys. They'd ship broken code then go to the customer site and patch it. Heros! The rest of us shipped good, tested code and didn't need to do that. Never got applauded at executive meetings; never got special rewards from customer reps, just doing our job.
- hinkley 3y agoOne of our platform engineers figured out one day that the Ops guys and the management were in a Stockholm Syndrome toxic loop. They were always in war rooms together, meanwhile our stuff, broken as it still is, mostly works, so we often weren’t needed. Those managers are gone, but the Ops guys still think they're cocks of the walk and it’s never been less true. I’ve had two bosses give an all engineering staff speech that could be summarized as, “we are too big to tolerate heroes now”. But is should have been 6, not 2.
- johnvaluk 3y agoI call them firemen who put out their own fires. Also annoying are the managers who suddenly champion mission continuity without wondering why operations have been free of disruption for years...
- cratermoon 3y ago> they'd ship broken code then go to the customer site and patch it From management's perspective, maybe it looks like the customers love them so much they keep asking for them to personally come and work with them.