• Destide@feddit.uk
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    3·
    7 months ago

    ❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗URGENT❗❗❗❗PLeSE READ ASAP❗MY REQESTS ARE MORE IMPORATNT THAN YOUR TIME❗❗ CC: yourboss,your mum,your uni prof

    • derfl007@lemmy.wtf
      3·
      7 months ago

      Behind every ❗️❗️❗️🚨🚨🚨URGENT🚨🚨🚨❗️❗️❗️ there is a person who’s about to miss a deadline and, instead of working on themselves to prevent that from happening in the future, makes it the developer’s deadline to miss

      • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        7 months ago

        Also that urgency is rooted in job insecurity, not even customer impact. They just don’t want to look bad.

        E: which I mean fair enough, me too, but still.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      7 months ago

      So much this.

      I’m in my first professional role and the first project was completed and aside from my boss I was the only other dev. So I was naturally excited for their (clients) feedback on it.

      Well fast forward a couple of months where they really didn’t interact with the application much and then came the queries and then not understanding how to use it. Find boss sets aside 10 days for me to write some documentation with screenshots of all the journeys (free of charge).

      Again, tumbleweeds. Then all of a sudden it’s boom emails a plenty.

      Can you fix this, this is a major bug kinda emails. Like it isn’t a bug, you don’t know how to use it.

      Now we are dumbing down the software to make it more align with what the business is used to, which is fine but even my boss has said (as I over think and want to reply to things instantly) that just because they have come to life doesn’t mean we drop everything else to tend to them now.

  • NoneYa@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I hate these requests so fucking much. I’ve learned a lot of SQL because of it but I’m sick of it. Especially sick of the users who ask for the same data over and over again.

    One guy asked me to run a report every first of the month and then he wouldn’t respond when I would send it so I stopped sending it. Additionally because he would request it AGAIN later in the month after I already sent it at the beginning of the month.

    Guess it’s too much to search your fucking emails before requesting a new report to be run. A report that I’ve told you countless times will slow down everything for everyone else who’s using the system.

    But tHis iS uRgENt aSAp to run a report asking for all data for the last 3 years.