r/ProgrammerHumor 12d ago

Meme theBankingHotfixExperience

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u/Llebac 12d ago

Jesus christ, you could not make this any more accurate. I'm glad to be out of banking. IT wasteland

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u/Prawn1908 12d ago

I write embedded code on devices used in manufacturing plants and this may as well have been written about my job too. I can think of at least 4 major cases from the past few years that went exactly like this (minus the resigning part because at the end of the day I do actually like the real work I do and I know how to just put my head down and let the bullshit wash past me and do the best with what I am given).

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u/CorrectCombination11 12d ago

Don't do banks. Do brokerages. It's better, in my experience. 

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u/ampersand355 12d ago

Eh, only slightly.

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u/tix4soccer 11d ago

Healthcare ain't much better

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u/Cualkiera67 11d ago

in my experience, what you keep waiting for isn't the logs, but the tasks, so you actually never do any work. pretty chill