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Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.
"Sorry boss, but the text train delayed us 5 seconds and causes us to lose millionsnof dollars" Boss: "The wat?"
In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!
I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.
Sounds like a horrific, stressful job. How do you cope with that?
I get paid well! And at the point I’d left the job we’d gotten everything stable so that the incidents dropped off and weren’t as impactful.
Tech is weird compared to other industries, in that actual mistakes that cause outages aren’t really punished… unless it’s something egregious or you didn’t follow rules like “don’t cowboy stuff in prod, use peer reviewed plans”. It’s generally “blameless” in the postmortems, you take what you learned from it and add to the procedures to make sure that exact issue doesn’t happen again.
Sounds quite a lot like working in science actually. Just better paid, I'd imagine
It’s pretty great if you land the right job. Amazon or meta? Fuck all that. But via my network I found a nice startup (after being at two big fintech companies) that pays me crazy San Francisco bucks while I live in Ohio.
And yeah, I’m very privileged and I’m well aware of it. Especially for a college drop out who majored in English….
Since I’m so privileged I make sure I do what I can to help others though, lots of donations to orgs and I do some volunteering to hand out food to the needy on weekend. It’s to help with the cognitive dissonance and the feeling like “I don’t deserve this”
Shoulda made the alias instead it sounds like!
Oof. Were they found and removed from the org?
Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.
Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.