Hacks on top of hacks
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Apparently, once you show people they've earned a certain amount of money, you can never EVER show them anything different.
Example 1: Cached values got corrupted during migration, so some people were shown higher dollar values than they should. Bosses decided to pay out, rather than tell users there was a problem. Oh and those incorrect caches? They remain incorrect FOREVER.
Example 2: They make me hardcode some higher payment values to make a better presentation. Fine, whatever. But now, these numbers are part of reality as far as these users are concerned. So we can never ever change them. These disgusting
HACK!!!!comments are here to stay FOREVER!Today, I'm told I need to hack the payments again. Another special snowflake user got a special deal. Except, this new hack will interfere with the old hack. So now, I'm no longer even hacking the normal system, but modifying and extending previous "temporary" hacks.
I can only imagine the situation a year or two down the road. Everything will be a surgical precision operation on top of an endless maze of old half-forgotten hacks and tweaks, until one day, the entire dung heap collapses on all our heads.
This, people, is how legacy is made. And not a good kind of legacy.
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As more hacks are needed, it sounds like the perfect situation to say "you figure out how the rules should work from a business perspective and I'll bang them into code". Either that or incessantly pester them with (serrated) edge cases you come across.
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@mikehurley said:
As more hacks are needed, it sounds like the perfect situation to say "you figure out how the rules should work from a business perspective and I'll bang them into code". Either that or incessantly pester them with (serrated) edge cases you come across.
Oh yes. These people have no idea what they are doing. None whatsoever.
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This, people, is how legacy is made. And not a good kind of legacy.
Run away, dude, just .... run away. Ain't nobody got time for that o_O
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I know a system like this. In fact I know several...
The world is broken :'(
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Hey that's my GIF!
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You would think that you could just tell them that the numbers were wrong and now here are the correct ones, but they have already printed out screen shots which they will present as evidence in court when they sue for underpayment. Then you get pulled away from development so you can testify. Even if the employer wins, the cost of litigation far outweighs the amount of the overpayment.
Filed under: been there, dealt with that.
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I had no idea. I collect these things from all over the place. It is an awesome gif
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Here's one for ya:
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Dear lord, NO!
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Switching from a polite "no thank you" to "kill it with fire"?
Why not go for the napalm while you're at it...
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Shirley just go straight to nukes?
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Exactly!
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- "accidentally" mudge payroll to up your paycheck by an order of magnitude
- collect monies
I have to think of everything.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
1. "accidentally" mudge payroll to up your paycheck by an order of magnitude
2. collect monies- Get caught after an internal investigation
- Serve ten years in prison
…why the fuck did it preserve line breaks?
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Don't be mean. Up everyone else's paycheck as well, especially all the management!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
1. "accidentally" mudge payroll to up your paycheck by an order of magnitude
2. collect monies- Get caught after an internal investigation
- Serve ten years in prison
…why the fuck did it preserve line breaks?
#3 nuh-uh. His company explicitly said a computer fuck-up will be honored for eternity. He's good.
Edit: that should have been "#3" not DISCOMARKDOWNBBLHTML 3
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@Lorne_Kates said:
3 nuh-uh. His company explicitly said a computer fuck-up will be honored for eternity. He's good.
Some people are "privileged" to steal. Peons are not, and will be punished for trying, much less stealing.
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Up everyone else's paycheck as well, especially all the management!
My argument is that they gave me explicit authorization to do it when I asked for a salary review and they said "up yours".
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will be punished for trying, much less stealing
What a weird world we live in where stealing gets you lower sentence than just trying to do it...
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@CoyneTheDup said:
will be punished for trying, much less stealing
What a weird world we live in where stealing gets you lower sentence than just trying to do it...
I wouldn't put it exactly that way. I'd put it: ...where stealing billions gets you a lower sentence than stealing a
loaf of breadrack of ribs.Texas man sentenced to 50 years in prison for stealing a rack of ribs
Homeless Man Gets 15 Years for $100; CEO Gets 3 Years for $3 Billion
It's a prerogative of the Powerful, to steal with no or slap-on-the-wrist consequences.
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For the record: I was mocking your choice of words, not actual phenomenon.
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For the record: I was mocking your choice of words, not actual phenomenon.
Why? Because I suggested a low-level employee could be terminated for even trying to steal?
Took < 1 minute to find this: Attempted Employee Theft - Wrongful Termination
Bottom line:
Is it considered wrongful termination if an employee is fired for attempted theft? Absolutely not.
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Don't be mean. Up everyone else's paycheck as well, especially all the management!
- Up everyone's paycheck by a few orders of magnitude;
- Company goes bankrupt as it can no longer afford to pay anyone.
No one else left to see incorrect numbers → Problem solved.
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If you can't afford to up everyone's pay by a few orders of magnitude you don't deserve to be in business.
