I was feeling nostalgic and remember all the terrible jobs I've had in the past and thought it would be cool to hear of some more terrible jobs than mine.
Mine:
After working a few 60 hour weeks trying to fix the product the company had outsourced for the last 3 years I was feeling pretty burnout. It was s Fridays and I think I was on my 5th or 6th bugfix of the day. I asked the QA manager if it was ok if I went home early at 6.00pm an she said yes.
On Monday when I got back in at 8.00 I had a real stinker of an email saying "the devs" (i.e. me) shouldn't leave the system in a bad state and that even more overtime was on the card. He then pulled us all in a meeting and basically said that the code wasn't good enough and it was all our own fault. Totally ignoring that we were rewriting the mess that the outsourced contractors had gotten away with but no it was all the permies fault.
The software itself was a complete disaster and actual failed to calculate interest payments on millions of dollars worth of accounts on Xmas eve because the customer had booked > 1 million transactions on a single day.
The director who chewed me out was later demoted and after this you seen a real change in attitude were he was much less shouty.
Mine:
After working a few 60 hour weeks trying to fix the product the company had outsourced for the last 3 years I was feeling pretty burnout. It was s Fridays and I think I was on my 5th or 6th bugfix of the day. I asked the QA manager if it was ok if I went home early at 6.00pm an she said yes.
On Monday when I got back in at 8.00 I had a real stinker of an email saying "the devs" (i.e. me) shouldn't leave the system in a bad state and that even more overtime was on the card. He then pulled us all in a meeting and basically said that the code wasn't good enough and it was all our own fault. Totally ignoring that we were rewriting the mess that the outsourced contractors had gotten away with but no it was all the permies fault.
The software itself was a complete disaster and actual failed to calculate interest payments on millions of dollars worth of accounts on Xmas eve because the customer had booked > 1 million transactions on a single day.
The director who chewed me out was later demoted and after this you seen a real change in attitude were he was much less shouty.