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I worked here - my first job in the US, via a contracting agency, for a few weeks until I totalled my then-girlfriend's car, broke my arm, and could no longer c
by PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
I worked here - my first job in the US, via a contracting agency, for a few weeks until I totalled my then-girlfriend's car, broke my arm, and could no longer commute from Philadelphia.
Worst programming job I ever had. My assigned task: change the constant that limited how many forwarding steps a phone could follow in one of their private telephone routing systems, from 32 to 64. That meant: change the macro/definition in a .h file, update the documentation string.
Planned time for this change: 1 week.
There's a reason those telephone switches written in C actually worked so reliably, but oh god, not the life for me.
Did I mention the office^H^H^H^H^H^Hcloset I had to work in.
Very happy to never come close to this vision of programming ever again.
- ecshafer 3y agoI would happily take a closet office over an open floorplan. But commuting Philadelphia to Holmdel sounds absolutely awful.