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by Arnavion 489 days ago
It was supposedly Jerry's code that intentionally caused results for Bermuda to not show up for "Caribbean", but the fix for it was to change their search engine config because there was an error copying from the database?

The guy who wasn't actually going to work on the issue decided the time estimate of the bug, and then expected the guy who actually worked on the issue to stick to it? Four hours were apparently an underestimate anyway because it took the author "several hours" to fix it.

I agree Jerry did a stupid thing too by not testing the queries properly against the previously deployed version of the code. He works remotely so he didn't interact with Sonia enough to take her more seriously. But instead of telling him that so that he can learn, this guy starts assigning him motives and patronizing him, and then pats himself on the back for being a good dad^H^H^H manager who doesn't cuss?

Story has holes and the cunt is insufferable.

Edit: The author is also the one who submitted this here, and he seems to submit every article from his blog. There are other articles in there like this one about how he deals with people. After reading some of them, all I can say is that the word "cunt" is insufficient to describe him.

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I agree story has holes but regarding

> The guy who wasn't actually going to work on the issue decided the time estimate of the bug, and then expected the guy who actually worked on the issue to stick to it?

I think he meant that if the ticket was dismissed in a much shorter time than the allotted then it also needs a good reason.

I also believe a bug ticket saying “this shouldn’t happen” is not solved until until “this” no longer happens or everyone involved agrees that it’s okay for it to happen.