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by ErroneousBosh 209 days ago
Did you do any work besides taking screenshots and trying to figure out why FTP was broken this time?

Your old job's broken workflow is not a good reason for keeping a fundamentally broken protocol that relies on allowing Remote Code Execution as a privileged user around.
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koakuma-chan 209 days ago
I wrote a tool that took screenshots automatically and used FileZilla to upload :) And my comment is in support of removing FTP because it was lame.
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ErroneousBosh 209 days ago
Aha, fair. Why the hell did they need you to do that?

I used to work in a web dev job where when they brought in "time tracking" they wanted everyone to update a spreadsheet with what they were doing every half an hour. A spreadsheet, as literally a .xls, on a shared Windows drive. Everyone spent more time waiting for access to the spreadsheet than they did doing any work.

This situation persisted for about two weeks, and the manager that came up with the genius idea about two weeks longer than that, before we eventually told the other managers we were downing tools and leaving if he didn't either get "promoted to customer" or lay off the charlie during work hours.

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koakuma-chan 208 days ago
> Why the hell did they need you to do that?

Because it's was a shitty company and I only worked there for one month. I absolutely hate any type of time tracking or attempts to micro manage.

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