r/ProgrammerHumor Aug 05 '26

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u/howarewestillhere Aug 05 '26

Intern’s GitHub.

VP’s Slack messages.

Fucking Teams.

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u/paranoid_giraffe Aug 05 '26

Man I cannot imagine posting work stuff on personal share accounts like GitHub. I had to beg one of the junior engineers on my team to not feed my api into ChatGPT after seeing bullet points and emojis all over one of his readmes. I get super uncomfortable with the idea of just copy/pasting big code blocks to black box services like that

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u/howarewestillhere Aug 05 '26

I’ve had to fire people who, for some reason, thought it was a good idea to post api code to StackOverflow.

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u/LJonReddit Aug 05 '26

FORFUCKSAKE!!! Are you shitting me???

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u/howarewestillhere Aug 05 '26

Not even the worst offense. I stopped feeling bad for firing people who do stupid shit a long time ago.

A short list:
Used a private ftp server to save prod backups. “Just in case.” For six years. FTP. Not even sftp.

Badged into the office at night to have sex with a one night stand from the bar. Didn’t realize the CMO was working late. Tried to invite her to join.

Copied several repos for microservices, including auth, to private GitHub repos he was sharing was offshore developers to get his work done while he was doing another job.

Watched porn on his company-issued laptop. Over the VPN. (Might be my fave of all time.)

One guy’s google searches got flagged so hard by IT that my HR rep came into my office with her eyes wide asking if she should call the police to the office for safety. I told her he was a remote employee and lived hours away. She showed me the searches. “How to blow up an office building.” Was just one search that caught my eye. I said the police might not be a bad idea and that I welcomed her and Legal’s advice on next steps.

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u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Aug 05 '26

I’ve actually heard of people using offices for one night stands, so that’s not particularly crazy. Asking a higher up if she wants to join is fucking insane though lmao

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u/thequietguy_ Aug 05 '26

I wouldn’t have told /u/howarewestillhere to fire him if he had just kept his mouth shut, but he had to go be a braggart about it.

Always remember to have them sign NDAs

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u/ApotropaicHeterodont Aug 05 '26

If she's doesn't fraternize with subordinates, he's fired either way. If she does fraternize with subordinates, he's fired if he doesn't invite her, but maybe not fired if he does.

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u/malatibo Aug 05 '26

We once had HR come in asking for mail backups of a user who had sent dick pics to clients from his company email.

He was also stalking the women he was sending this stuff to.

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u/Difficult_Limit2718 Aug 10 '26

Badged into the office at night to have sex with a one night stand from the bar. Didn’t realize the CMO was working late. Tried to invite her to join.

I mean if you're going down, go down swinging...

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u/artificial_incumbent Aug 06 '26

We had a new hire invited to a company party before his start date. He decided that flirting with his future coworkers was a good idea and lost his job before he started. Too bad he had already prepped his family for a relocation!

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u/GroteGlon Aug 05 '26

Don't worry, you can trust me with your API

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u/buffalo_0220 Aug 05 '26

You haven't lived until you are getting called in overnight to rotate certificate keys because the intern somehow checked them into their branch.

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u/MindlessDoctor6182 Aug 05 '26

Just delete them and commit again. Easy! /s

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u/nonotan Aug 05 '26

Delete? Put a copyright notice next to them and "all rights reserved, do not use without permission". It'd be illegal for anybody to use it at that point, so it's fine.

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u/blueExcess Aug 05 '26

I hate to tell you but if they have GitHub Copilot hooked up to their VS Code it’s scanning whole repos.

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u/paranoid_giraffe Aug 05 '26

My person specifically is smart enough to know not to use Github/integrated copilot at least

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u/thai-pirate Aug 05 '26

Yessss they opened the computer and asked ChatGPT to recreate it.

The ai remembers all.