@D-4got10-01 let's be honest, a significant portion of the code we write has no users.

@sidthepajfuk "even if it takes years" me thinks there's a better way cuz fuck that

Who's watched Prison Break or Chuck. Don't think either are explicitly ASD but not far off.

@BordedDev I'm trying very hard not to return my laptop with a fist-shaped hole in it.

@sidthepajfuk lol, someone's too insecure in their masculinity to talk about their feelings without worrying it makes them gay.

@tosensei 30 people across 4 countries. There's like, 10 competent people and 5 senior buddy buddy people that try to bully anyone that steps out of line. I've seen a few people forced out. They tried it with me when I joined the company because I complained so I shut up and kept my head down. They've tried it with me again now and it's so utterly hilariously blown up in their face. They got aggressive with me, demanded stuff, thought I was lying about health problems, threatened to fire me. Last week they finally got the info they wanted and nobody has said a word to me since except legal speak acknowledgement of emails. I'm writing an email that includes the phrase "The list you've provided does not match my records. As you now probably know, not implementing agreed reasonable adjustments may constitute disability discrimination under UK law". My little fuck you.

You mean <insert name of your current employer here>?

@retoor I raised a grievance when I joined the company because I told them about my health and also said I had ADHD. I joined about 9 months after hospital and had been out of work for that time. They did nothing about my health and, best I can tell, they wanted me to go through a full ADHD assessment and send them the report (all manner of illegal). I still don't understand what they wanted. It was a condition of my probation (totally illegal). I talked them down to just some ADHD coaching, but even that I didn't want. The occupational health referral they made listed "reasonable adjustments" they've made. The list was incomplete and inaccurate. Not implementing agreed reasonable adjustments and not notifying me of their withdrawal is disability discrimination (totally illegal). I went along with it then because frankly I was too unwell to find another job or fight any more than I did. But I was expecting them to try some more shit at some point. Now they have. Took longer than I expected, but I've also mostly kept my mouth shut and not complained. Which I feel like that they were trying to bully me into shutting up. Now I'm well enough to fight. But also I think they've realised from the health report how monumentally they've fucked up. So we'll see. I may have to break some legs.

The thing that split my life into before and after, nearly dying and suffering significant lung damage. And my employer is being an asshole about it. My last rant: https://devrant.com/rants/16238812

@retoor I've been half assing my job because I'm burnt out dealing with my health and their bullshit. Like every other week I'm asked to go into the office even though I've said it could kill me. It's by the CTO and I don't really feel like I'm allowed to say no. They've got shitty in the past about me taking time for hospital appointments. I'm willing to bet the only reason they've done the assessment of my health is because they wanted to fire me and thought it would help them pressure me out. I'm currently fully remote, I'm willing to bet they were hoping to force me to be fully in office. Not only am I telling the truth, but it sounds kinda worse than I made out. Even though I've agreed to every reasonable request they've made for medical info.

I'm in the UK, they've recently asked for an occupational health assessment which I've done, I said I wanted to go via the NHS, they tried to force me to go private. I had to argue against that in favor of what I wanted. But most useful for me is they put on the form I'd complained of "undiagnosed chest pain" (the report states I have significant lung damage as a result of bilateral pulmonary embolisms that required ICU admission, exactly what I disclosed), they also asked if I was protected under the UK equality act as a result of any disability I may have (they were clearly thinking the answer would be no). Not only was the answer "yes", but the answer to that one question is half a page. Also they said they support me continuing to work fully remote.

I sent a rather blunt email over the weekend asking for an update, the only response I've had today is an acknowledgement and saying it'll "be addressed in due course". If I've not got an answer by the end of the week it'll be a grievance. If I've not got an answer by the end of next week it'll be the ICO and employment tribunal.

We're a fucking medical research company. We have MDs on the board and on staff.

Needed to rant. Feel better for it.

Even worse: employees knowing their rights.

@jestdotty my brain just about works fine (ignore the panic attacks and flashbacks), thankfully the ambulance reached me as fast as it did otherwise I'd have suffered brain damage or death. My lungs are totally fucked however.

@iiii my manager is an asshole generally. He doesn't listen. I'm a senior but not a fucking ounce of respect.

I'm disappointed this rant didn't finish half

I'm chaotic neutral.

@donkulator whut
I hope that's the first time that question has ever been asked...

Me suddenly wondering the odds that any given sentence is unique...

I'm neither. Have been here for *checks notes* ohhh god, nearly a decade. I'm old.

Going through more stuff. They've threatened me with disciplinary action for something that was agreed. I'm going to murder someone.

I'm fully remote. If I had to work in the office I'd have punched someone's lights out this week.

I used to do motion tracking. The team I worked with was one of the smartest group I've ever worked with. One of the first bugs I found was a mistake they'd made converting between different coordinate systems. It wasn't a big thing and they made the same mistake somewhere else and it all balanced out. But as soon as I did extra stuff in between it all broke. And working it out/explaining it melted my brain, as well as theirs. Coordinate systems are hard. I added a load of unit tests (they were hardware people used to manual tests), and there were loads of simple little edge cases. We used FFTs and it's cyclical so 32 points in one direction was equivalent to 32 points in the other direction but they'd just said it was 32 points one way and 31 the other which is barely noticeable in most cases except for exactly what I was working on.

I love science mumbo jumbo

We have our offsite backup NAS mounted as a read/write device with no versioning.

We're doing backup "right".

@CoreFusionX my physics degree has a use! So much Greek...

@antigermgerm the "Russian" alphabet is the Cyrillic, I was matching the knowledge level demonstrated by OP

Is there any goddamn logic in the English alphabet? Several letters make the same sound C/K (check) U/W (vow, vouch).

Or just accept they developed from scratches in clay. And whatever works.

Personal preference, don't pin, fix stuff when it breaks (or pin until it's fixed). Releases/deployment should record the exact version they were deployed with (eg build a docker container). Then other people complain I play fast and loose and want more exact pinning. Then we fall multiple major releases behind and run a version with known security issues (yes that's my current job).

@antigermgerm alas, my boss does have time to micromanage me and if anything it leads to stupid mistakes...

@retoor I think on that basis I'd rather just write it myself.

Wait what do you mean you've refactored 80% of the code? As in the AI refactored your code or you refactored 80% of its code? Cuz they are two very different things

Some nerds installed one years ago. Me, I'm a nerd.