[HN Gopher] Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit fro...
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       Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
        
       Any crazy request or something that stressed you in a way that you
       wanted to quit?
        
       Author : boredemployee
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2022-09-04 22:11 UTC (50 minutes ago)
        
       | isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote:
       | General lack of competence/direction. We spent over half a year
       | building something with no users being allowed to use it, and,
       | unsurprisingly, it did not do what it was supposed to. Product
       | org's idea? Let's do it again, without talking to the users until
       | 6 months later. The entire dev team bailed within a month. The PM
       | still works there, 5 years later.
        
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       | radiojasper wrote:
       | I've been setting up massively complicated sending rules for a
       | webshop in health care products so that it selects the correct
       | carrier for the products in a client's cart. This webshop has own
       | stock, but also does drop shipping and depending on what products
       | are in the cart, different carriers should be selected during
       | checkout. Then they also have discounts / free shipping for some
       | products, but not for all, and some products can be paid in 3
       | terms, but not all, and some products can be selected for
       | saturday shipping and/or next day shipping - but of course, not
       | all.
       | 
       | So if a client adds a product to the cart and selects Saturday
       | delivery, the shipping costs change but only for that particular
       | product in the cart because drop shipped products can't be
       | delivered on Saturday. So this requires a bunch of custom
       | notifications to inform the client about this, custom
       | calculations of shipping costs and a lot of if/else crap to
       | figure out what carrier to select. I hate it, it's so
       | complicated.
       | 
       | Anyway I emailed the client about this and that I needed a bit
       | more time to set this up because it was very complicated. Her
       | reply?
       | 
       | "Maybe it's best if you _just_ enter the shipping rules again if
       | the current ones are too complicated _for you to understand._ "
       | 
       | I wanted to throw my fucking computer out the window and become a
       | surfing board vendor on a beach in Cook Islands. Fucking hell I
       | spent HOURS on that and she has absolutely no idea how
       | complicated this all is. I HATE THAT WOMAN and she makes my job
       | absolutely miserable to do.
        
         | NicoJuicy wrote:
         | Show her the code and tell her to do it if she knows better.
        
           | radiojasper wrote:
           | I actually should.
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | > become a surfing board vendor on a beach in Cook Islands
         | 
         | Speaks to my soul. There's still time friend.
        
           | radiojasper wrote:
           | You're right - and since I'm 40 now there's not a lot. I need
           | to change my life up before I'm 60 and it's all too late.
        
       | legerdemain wrote:
       | Spent six months rebuilding data infrastructure for a product
       | team. The team got canned the following month.
        
       | leet_thow wrote:
       | A few coworkers on my team were clearly clinically depressed.
        
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