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by tharkun__ 1286 days ago
Hehe fair enough for your case. Yes, those absolutely exist. If you're not working for a military contractor or something there I hope you ran a long time ago. This seems to indicate that a lot of other things would be wrong with that place too.

I asked my parent if he timed it, because he mentioned "a minute". Lots of things feel longer to us than they actually are. If you're waiting for something to open or react to a click or other input even half a second can feel long and we're bound to say things like "whoa that took like 30 seconds, WTF!". But when you time it, it actually takes way less.

E.g. opening an issue directly from a new tab in Jira takes about 5 seconds for me in my quick test for example. Yes, that's absolutely a "long" time for what it ultimately needs to display and do. But it's also nowhere near a minute and if all you gotta do is to open a ticket someone sent you because you're supposed to "work on ASAP", these 5 seconds don't matter. You'll wait about the same time to run your unit tests after making the required change. You'll wait way longer to run the entire test suite etc.