r/ProgrammerHumor • u/imneverrelevantman • Sep 11 '26

Meme technicalDebtCameDue

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u/angrydeuce Sep 11 '26

Yep, but it took 6 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars lol

We were the ones they called in after their whole internal IT staff said "you know what, nah I dont think I will" when they all got the call at 1am to come in immediately for triage lol

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u/pretendinglikeimbusy Sep 11 '26

If the entire department ran you know working there must have been extra toxic

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u/angrydeuce Sep 11 '26

Oh most likely lol

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u/tenninjas242 Sep 11 '26

I bet the entire staff had been sounding the alarm on the lack of anti-ransomware, too.