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At $work, I just learned that a daemon on prod makes an SFTP connection to the same domain every 0.5 to 10 seconds, all day long, every single day. That’s a minimum of 8,640 connections per day!

The senior developer responsible for it had the dev skills of a junior and the management skills of a puppet, but she’s a “disadvantaged minority” and is great at stealing credit and throwing people under the bus. Naturally, she has been given multiple promotions and a team to lead… which she fills exclusively with other Indians, all of them at her skill level or below. (I used to do their code reviews and security reviews.)

When I asked one of the fintech managers (a former dev) about the crazy number of SFTP connections, he said “[Her team] did that intentionally, as it didn’t used to be that way. They must have had a reason” and cut me off.

Okay then.
Not my garden, not my fertilizer.
Just another day weeding the fields in hell.

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  • 3
    14h
    Sounds like a * cough * fun coworkers you've got there.

    Definitely sorry to hear that.
  • 2
    13h
    without any context about what the connection is being used for, it'd be stupid to judge it. i can imagine enough reasons for this to be valid - for example if the daemons job is to monitor if said SFTP-server is available and ready to accept connections.

    so - give details.
  • 1
    10h
    According to that Hotmail guy, 99% of Indian engineers are using engineering as a stepping path to management.

    That might be a racist rant, but I'd say it's true for a large portion of the Indians I've worked with. Those types of people (aspiring managers) don't write good code, they please the people who can promote them.
  • 1
    9h
    Work politics, a detriment to productivity.
  • 1
    8h
    @lungdart don't know what is racist about it.
  • 0
    5h
    Quite a few times we've had a third party who sends us files via sftp, doesn't offer any alternative channel, management want the files processed as soon as they're available - what else can you do?

    If whoever is on the other end doesn't like their server getting poked every 10 seconds they can offer a more efficient option.
  • 1
    4h
    @lungdart it's not race it's culture. Of course India is huge with a diversity of cultures but a majority of very hierarchical and status driven. Those individuals will always try to punch well above their weight.

    I've had some amazing Indian coworkers, in fact one of my best friends is Indian. However I've also had the displeasure of working with the ones matching the description. That is just bloody horrible to deal with unless you have higher status and cut them off.
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