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Hi All,
On Friday I posted about the useless bit of Friday. Chose a task that should have been done, so I would treading already well trodden ground. Found a 'mess' up (choose your own profanity!) of Biblical size. Spend the weekend working out how to tell people about it (company issues, I'm in Production, there in R&D, last time I found something like this I got a telling off by R&D for looking into there files). Company politics got to love it!
Glenn
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: last time I found something like this I got a telling off by R&D for looking into there files
Instead of thanking you for finding a bug? 
I see what you mean about company politics - sorry to hear that.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Instead of thanking you for finding a bug?
The more incompetent the developer, the more protective they get - and being shown publicly to have made a mistake so obvious that a production person found it ... doesn't reflect well on them.
Company politics is usually there to protect "high value" incompetents unfortunately.
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It kind of sucks and it's uncomfortable but admitting to mistakes is perhaps one of the most important things I have learnt in my software career - it feels uncomfortable but it's usually a much bigger relief than hiding things.
A lot comes down to the culture of the company and the leaders nurturing an atmosphere where making a mistake and owning up to it is not seen as a problem.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Some years ago i was responsible for writing the user interface to one of our systems. As a design document I was given the user manual, so I had to guess a lot. When I suggested to the team in the US (responsible for the underlying system) that the document wasn't clear on a few items, I was given very short shrift.
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"No one reads the manuals", they told me. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Isn't the very definition of politics to protect the incompetent from the consequences of their actions?
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Not that I saw that one coming or anything...
The Lounge[^] 
Nervertheless it's no fun to be in that position.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Tell your supervisor and let him/her do the telling.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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This one. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: I'm in Production, there in R&D, last time I found something like this I got a telling off by R&D for looking into there files
Term problem there?
R&D should not be something that goes directly into production. Should be R&D => Development => (QA) => Production.
And in that scenario there is no reason for Prod to be looking at R&D code bases.
I would also expect that R&D code to be less than ideal anyways. For example I would not expect proper error handling (and perhaps even no error handling), layouts that were less than ideal, layouts that do not fit into production layouts, potential integration problems, etc.
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Ahh, yes, but it's a case 'it works', 'ship it', there is no QA dept, the best one I heard in a meeting with the senior management 'Yes it ready to ship, build & release, but Glenn keeps finding faults', so my boss came back with 'So, it's not ready then.' and that person looked like a mug . Prod tests the stuff to make sure it works (?, Q&A, never mind!) before it's shipped.
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Easy one for Monday
Wind ripped a function (7)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Topical too ...
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep, I just tested negative for Covid!
I am free to leave the house ... but I don't want to go anywhere, particularly.
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"I got a strong urge to fly..."
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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CPallini wrote: "I got a strong urge to fly..."
Nobody Home?
"..but I got no where to fly to, fly to, fly to, fly to..."
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I have up to now, remained Covid free, by being generally unsociable. I for one found the lock down a chance to catch up with 'jobs' like decorating, plumbing ('naa, Gaffer tape will hold it' until I get chance)...
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I can strongly recommend the "don't catch it" approach - it';s way better than getting it! 
Unfortunately, Herself works in an old folks home and residents with various degrees of dementia and relatives who are in the will already don't do a lot for keeping any bugs under control. She went down a couple of days before I did, so it's pretty obvious where it came from.
But Covid did have a good effect even there - they haven't had Norovirus for three years and they normally get an outbreak every few months ... 
I have to say though that the vaccines seem to have helped - the latest bout was nowhere near as bad as the original even if they didn't prevent us getting it.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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SWMBO has just tested positive. I will do a test later ...
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Herself was positive 3 days before me, so you probably should assume you are also positive even if the first test comes back -ve.
Please convey my sympathies to SWMBO, and my hopes for a quick, easy recovery for you both.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wishes for a speedy recovery for SWMBO and you.
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OriginalGriff wrote: but I don't want to go anywhere, particularly.
If I was in Wales I would go anywhere but 
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Now, do I ever say nasty things about Norway?
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