"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
12/13/2018 at 22:03 • Filed to: None
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"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
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yet....
AestheticsInMotion
> bob and john
12/13/2018 at 22:08 |
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*stands it back up*
*blames the problem on the next guy*
Just Jeepin'
> bob and john
12/13/2018 at 22:15 |
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Just learned about this major fuckup today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Samsung_fat-finger_error
HoustonRunner
> bob and john
12/13/2018 at 22:17 |
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Not NEARLY that bad, but interning at Texas Instruments back in 1995 (when they were still a big defense contractor), I did drop a 6" silicon wafer that had a value around $50k . Easily my first work related code brown. Worked in a very manual intensive clean room making IR sensors for fire and forget anti-tank missiles . If I remember correctly it was a test run, so the chips weren’t planned to be production grade anyway, but still scary for a kid with exactly two semesters of college behind him.
TorqueToYield
> bob and john
12/13/2018 at 22:18 |
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All kidding aside no one employee should ever be able to fuck up that badly. If a company allows one employee to fuck up that badly it’s a broad company problem not a single employee problem.
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bob and john
> Just Jeepin'
12/13/2018 at 22:21 |
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..WOW.
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bob and john
> HoustonRunner
12/13/2018 at 22:23 |
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man...and I through accidentally putting a 30K ducati into a door was bad....
K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> bob and john
12/13/2018 at 22:39 |
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Life is GOOD compared to that.
Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
> bob and john
12/13/2018 at 23:48 |
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I work in IT. You have not begun to understand pants-shitting.
Lazy programmers did not have any sort of sanity checking, so their code was allowed to do the equivalent of ‘DELETE * FROM * WHERE cust = $cust’. No, there were no backups, because writing something that was consistent enough to be backed up was ‘too hard.’
Cost to the Business: multiple millions in cancellations directly attributable to it
Consequences to Responsible Parties: none
Cargo dock misread the weight label and dropped a top-end mid-range system nearly 4.5 feet onto concrete as a result. Completely destroyed.
Cost: $1.8MUSD (excl. software licenses which were transferred)
Consequences to Responsible Parties: asked to read more carefully
Incompetent twat-waffle posts AWS account secret keys to a public Github for the THIRD TIME. Think about that: the
third time
they have done this. Account is promptly compromised AGAIN, and as usual, Amazon’s ‘fraud detection’ says hundreds of atypical instances from Russian IPs is totally legit.
Cost: more than
$1.7M according to AWS
Consequences to Responsible Fuckwit: promoted to manager - after their manager was fired for letting them do EXACTLY THIS
Another department fails to read their calendar correctly (or at all) for the fifth time, but insists they did. Doesn’t show up for scheduled maintenance even after promising they would. 911 goes down for
over ten million customers
for several minutes as a direct result.
Cost: $0 so long as absolutely ZERO problems happened for 12 months
Consequences: people who believed the other department were scolded for believing
them
Disgustingly incompetent child of the boss is put in charge of purchasing. A very specific list of part numbers are provided along with a clear ‘it must be these parts, these quantities.’ Decides to give himself a pay raise by ordering cheaper ‘equivalents.’ Because hey look at how much he saved by ordering 8 x 128MB DIMMs instead of 4 x 256MB DIMMs for motherboards with 4 DIMM sockets. And they were all special order to get the cheapest possible junk.
Cost to the Business: over $4M in unsellable and unusable junk parts
Consequences: departments who provided clear instructions are yelled at for providing clear instructions
... guess we haven’t learned pants-shitting either.
Nick Has an Exocet
> bob and john
12/14/2018 at 00:55 |
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I worked at a hospital in the early 2000s doing data entry of old paper records. It was monotonous but I was great at it. There was a consultant who wrote scripts for moving records around and bringing the hospital digital. One day, he wrote a script and went home. Unfortunately, he pasted twice and the script double billed 1000+ records of medicare. Want a $1-2M government enforced audit? Make a mistake like that.
I managed to manually fix his f-up before the system caught it. I got a free hamburger from Friendly’s as a thank you.
promoted by the color red
> bob and john
12/14/2018 at 01:10 |
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I crippled a multi-billion dollar aircraft because my supervisor thought it was “ok” to relay design changes for a component via word-of-mouth in the loud-as-fuck shop area to the technician who didn’t speak English very well.
Did I mention this was done off of a hastily drawn sketch from the customer that looked like it was done on a bar napkin?
Doing it the “right” way required too much paperwork and time, plus my supervisor believed that having an engineering degree made him above the law. We ended up having to dispatch an engineer already on that side of the pond to sort out the mess.
Ironically he was written up on many pages for these “shortcuts” on my last day there.
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/14/2018 at 02:45 |
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...another department applies Test Driven Development pro cesses to d iesel engine firmware. “It passes - what’s the problem?”
#toosoon?
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> bob and john
12/14/2018 at 02:46 |
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Quote attributed to Jack Welch of GE, to a junior exec who expected to be fired after confessing a major screw-up:
“Why would I fire you, I just spent $100 million on training”
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Just Jeepin'
12/14/2018 at 05:17 |
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that was rather interesting
cheers for that.
My bird IS the word
> bob and john
12/14/2018 at 10:52 |
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Something relevant you might like.
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> bob and john
12/14/2018 at 10:52 |
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> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
12/14/2018 at 11:08 |
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Don’t forget: Developers have to admit in open court and on the record that they can’t rule out unintended acceleration, because they have absolutely no clue how the car’s software works at all.
Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> bob and john
12/17/2018 at 11:48 |
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The story behind that:
It was being worked on vertically and held on the stand by 8 bolts.
Someone borrowed the bolts.
They needed to move it horizontally.
They discovered that someone borrowed the bolts part way through that step.
Photos were taken.
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Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
12/17/2018 at 11:55 |
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Another missing bolt issue:
One of these failed seconds after launch when a bolt worked loose and fell into a fuel pump.