I’ve long said that the more people you add to a software project, the longer it will take and the worse the final product will be. Your scenario describes one of the many reasons why this is the case.
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partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 6 days agoYeah. I’m currently in a situation where we picked up a new hire and she keeps dropping these problems on me. Whenever she runs into something she doesn’t understand, I get a Teams message:
Good bye partofthevvvvvvvooooiiiicccceeeeee
It’s happening again 🤦♀️
The numbers don’t look right in SLT and the numbers matched yesterday, I don’t know…
They were fine yesterday, then they were all wrong all by themselves. Like magic.
Can you call real quick?
By this point, I’m already fucking irritated and I haven’t even responded yet.
- What do you mean by SLT? What the fuck is that, a dashboard?
- What are you comparing the numbers against to know they’re wrong?
- Did you create a minimal reproducible example in SQL, to demonstrate the issue?
- Did you halfsplit the problem by checking the Bronze tier data for the discrepancy?
- Did you open a ticket?
- And no, no I can’t fucking call. Please type the problem you’re actually having so that I can help you without spending three hours on the phone.
… she proceeds to create the ticket. MRE is a bunch of pseudocode referencing nonexistent tables with footnotes like, “this is the kind of tests we should check.” Oh, but you couldn’t be bothered to write the fucking test?
At a certain point, the ticket just falls into chaos:
- Her: The other team is comparing against their own dashboard, that’s how they know there’s a problem.
- Me: Please get the configuration options necessary to reproduce the calculations in their dashboard.
- Her: Here’s a list of the values they’re using to filter users.
- Me: That list counts 36. Your prior screenshot said the filter has 17 selections.
- Her: Jose said that’s the list of team members. The dashboard filters to team members.
- Me: Okay. I asked for the dashboard filters, not the team members.
- Her: Jose says they’re both the team members.
- Me: …
So after explaining (10x) that, to troubleshoot the dashboards discrepancy, we actually need the filter values from the dashboard… we end up on a 3 hour call, because none of this is fucking landing.
So here I am doing other people’s jobs while I’m already busy enough from my own. I get so burnt out sometimes.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 days ago
yggstyle@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’ll admit I let out a pained chuckle while reading that. We all have at least one like that who, almost like a savant terrorist, can pick the worst time after being ‘just dangerous enough’ to inflict maximum pain for minimum effort. And then youre left with all that energy from exasperation just bouncing around inside.