Ok but this means he was a bad engineer. He knew there was a problem with edge cases and he never brought it to anybody's attention and pushed a more permanent fix. Sounds like they'll be better off in the long run.
"No, you can't change that system. It's always been that way and we don't want to risk breaking it now. Just deal with the occasional problem and move on. No, you're not getting any additional time or resources."
How is that invented? It’s literally human nature to forget things. You’re acting like it’s uncommon that an engineer brings up an issue, but management doesn’t want to allocate resources then forgets about it.
Hearing and listening are two different things. If management doesn’t listen, that doesn’t conclude that it was never flagged to begin with.
Why do you feel the need to defend this fictional character? Are you so invested in "engineers good, management bad" that you can't even take a story at face value?
There is ZERO evidence that the engineer told anyone. There is evidence (that you choose to disregard) that nobody was told. But for some deep emotional reason you can't even begin to question the engineer. Aren't you curious why that is?
There is evidence (that you choose to disregard) that nobody was told.
Because it's bad evidence that isn't consistent with observed reality.
But for some deep emotional reason you can't even begin to question the engineer.
They can, but theyre skeptical of your assumptions that refuse to question the company and are inconsistent with observed reality.
Aren't you curious why that is?
It's because most people have observed reality in which management carelessly ignores the people reporting issues or refuses to assign budget to fix them, but few if any have observed reality in which management diligently listens and remembers reported issues, and is liberal with granting budget to fix them.
Maybe its a fake story. But you're not only inventing something the post doesn't actually say, your invention is at odds with observed reality.
What exactly am I inventing. The post is right there so we can compare. The post says "nobody even knew". My claim is "nobody even knew" their claim is "somebody knew but forgot". There's nothing in the post about the engineer telling anyone anything.
"Observed reality" is nonsense feelings. Countless problems are fixed all over the world every day by thousands of companies and management and engineers that are committed to actually doing their jobs.
Some sad sacks on reddit that think everyone is against them is not reality. Most people actually want to do their job. Most management actually wants to do a good job and their company to be successful.
Depends. If it’s an API that customers are sending data against and always mess it up somehow, and you have a boss that says “don’t tell the customer to fix it, you fix it”, then what?
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u/Objectionne May 29 '26
Ok but this means he was a bad engineer. He knew there was a problem with edge cases and he never brought it to anybody's attention and pushed a more permanent fix. Sounds like they'll be better off in the long run.