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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

Hey Boss, look here!

I made a magical X-ray app that displays our code as wiring.

Here is the shiny, neat program that Bob wrote 15 years ago, right before he left us:

And here is what it is today, after Tom took it from Bob, and Jane from Tom, and Mick from Jane, and me from him, porting it to roughly four new platforms, and adding about 240 features from customer requests (150 of which were urgent):

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If "mandatory overtime" is needed outside the realm of multiple catastrophic surprise events on a company-ending scale, your "project manager" is absolute shit.

[-] ignominous_wombat@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Overpromise, underdeliver. Looks good from my house!

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