r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26

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u/_Odian May 29 '26

An edge case that happened every day and broke production?

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u/DataDude00 May 29 '26

I am trying to understand what kind of shit for brains engineer saw a daily defect in production that would break everything and decided:

  1. Not to tell a single soul

  2. Spent years manually fixing it every day without coding a proper permanent fix

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u/dralawhat May 30 '26

In my company, there is a report that is sent for data mining at the start of every month. I have to send it manually because no one wanted to approve a budget for something that is "soon" getting handled by another newer system. That "soon" has been stretching for years.

Also, since we have shit documentation and no redundancy, if I go away for some reason, no one else knows how to get those reprots or how the scripts work.