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Almost twenty years ago, a lady walked into my former employer, from right off the street, to ask that they unsubscribe her from the mailing list. She was in to
by rezmason 1y ago
Almost twenty years ago, a lady walked into my former employer, from right off the street, to ask that they unsubscribe her from the mailing list. She was in town on vacation and realized their offices were there, and just thought it'd be nice to get that dealt with in person. Especially because her attempts to unsubscribe electronically had repeatedly failed.
Almost fifteen years ago, another of my former employers had an angry customer storm into their office and start shouting at the front desk associate. Soon after they relocated, and hired a full-time armed security guard to process all visitors straight from the elevator lobby. Any further, and you'd need to present photo ID and maybe sign an NDA before he'd buzz you in.
- xxr 1y ago"Always code as if the guy^Wold lady who ends up maintaining^Wrunning your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live^Wwork."
- neilv 1y agoOne memorable time I heard that old saying, was by a software engineer, in a Python-strengthening training that they did for some of our people who were fairly new to team software development. Not long after, at an engineering holiday dinner, an exec was asking everyone about their hobbies. That same engineer proudly shows a photo on their phone, of themself posing with a huge black tacticool sniper rifle. I might've looked taken aback, because the exec then asked if I shot guns. Nope. Refer back to the old saying, in the training. The engineer did good work, and seemed to be a decent person, but it's still a little funny that they turned out to be immune to the layoffs (by that same exec) that eventually got me and almost everyone else.