[ok_dad]

The place I work for pushed v2 of their software, a full rewrite (nothing from the old system, not even databases) by a new team, into production this week for several customers. Mostly they did it so they could say they met their made up 2023 KPIs for the v2 rewrite. There was no good reason to push it out now other than that, and there were several reasons not to, such as it wasn’t well tested and it’s fucking December 20th. Anyways, I’m not really on call so I can’t complain much, but my poor coworkers have to support this over the holidays now.

[hotsauceror]

Ugh. Several years ago I spent an entire Christmas vacation, including all day Christmas Day, putting out fires because a team couldn't be bothered to do five minutes of cursory load testing. As a consequence, multiple production systems went down under load.

Later, after we regrouped after a month of this brutality, they wandered around the office bragging like they'd hung the fucking moon after they fixed the crippling, obvious design issue they'd released. I confronted the dev lead with the fact that they would have seen this after 30s of load testing and he just laughed, I think he literally said "LOL". A giant middle finger, that's what Ops got from Dev for Christmas that year.

Here's to the people who KTLO. My people.

[ponector]

I've been is similar situation before. They wanted to release right on Christmas. But luckily enough, instead of releasing version full of bugs, managers come up with excuse: release postponed for one month due to some new vulnerability in third party library project used.

What a brilliant move! Christmas's was saved, everyone eligible received their bonuses.