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thehardkandy · 2 months

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The thing that torments me the most at work when programming is not solving problems. It is asking a question and then it turns out that three different meetings of senior management are required to get an answer because no one actually knows

#like ill be told “hey we want to create this thing people were doing my hand programatically”#and so i have to poke holes into everything that went into the original #and many are easy things we have a name for #but then theyll be like one fucking thing labelled “Year to date dollars exploded by cannon fire” and youre like #wow that's an interesting number let's see if someone knows what that is #and someone comes back ajd goes “oh actually that's just year to date cannons loaded with the tax!”#and im like well ok thats kinda the answer #but is the tax dependent on province? bwcausw i run the numbers of reverse engineering #this number i get something off by 3%#and theyre like damn fuck ok maybe it is the other province and then it mostly works #but then you talk to the original number guy #and he's like “oh yeah! i just change that number by hand based on thst other one and the moon phase”#and we're like ah ok our original calculation theb actually is correct sans the stuff impossible to know #and we shouldnt actually be counting thst because it's more sensible #and so everything is finally working #and someone says “you know actually this number is useless i don't want it taking up space”#“let's replace it with something we had all along”#and finally at point it's been 3-4 weeks after the original conversation where you floated #that same idea as the very first solution

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