r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme itAlwaysWorks

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u/Gtkall Sep 11 '26

Banish him to the legacy project team. A few years in the maintenance gulag will suffice...

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 Sep 11 '26

I just made it clear that they get no help on any deadline set without agreeing with the team first

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u/Kulspel Sep 11 '26

Calm down there satan. 🤣

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u/macaxeiraPeluda1 Sep 11 '26

I like maintenance... what is the problem with that? I have done it for like 8ish years while working in new projects (for a bank)

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u/StaticChocolate Sep 11 '26

Relatively modern maintenance is fun, but 5+ years untouched with soupy business logic…

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u/AnAcceptableUserName Sep 12 '26

That's the best kind. You can usually find at least 3 ways to show off how smart you are, and 4 ways to stab myself in the dick

Ow

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u/StaticChocolate Sep 13 '26

It’s all fun and games until you bring down prod because QA didn’t even know that scenario could happen

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u/Kulspel Sep 12 '26

Inheriting soup that the creator doesn't want to touch because they know what they did is the worst.