When you learn your project will be launched Monday in an email sent to the whole company, just before the weekend...

I'm not even kidding. No one on our team was consulted if the app was ready or not.

There was no infrastructure in place to even deploy the app. Everything had to be done in a hurry over the weekend to deploy something half baked, thanks to that idiot project manager who told his boss everything was ready.

Two colleagues ended up doing this work over the weekend, but looking back, if I was the one having to get something deployed over the weekend, I would have just refused and come back to work as usual on Monday and watch that idiot explain why it's not live.

Quite accurate...

Boss: The site is slow, just redo the site in HTML5. HTML5 is fast.

When management produces a list of priorities but every item on the list is #1 priority. So some items are in BOLD to signify their even greater priority over other priorities.

When a manager / "architect" starts saying complete nonsense about how some technology works, because he read a bit about it on the internet, but you prefer to just let him talk than proving him wrong. Not worth my time...

When you dedicate twice as much time on getting that nice button hover effect than actually making it work...

Overheard PHP developer say: "I don't like Node.js, it should be more like PHP where everything is async."

So apparently my official title is Full-Stack Developer Backend. Not sure HR fully understands the meaning of Full-Stack...