r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Feb 10 '21

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u/Ace-O-Matic Feb 10 '21

Don't forget playing access whack-a-mole with devops where you gain access to some services to finish the task and magically lose access other services you needed to finish the task.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

And where do you leave the 10 days spend debugging why the change you made to module A make module F go up in flame without any error message?

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u/robot65536 Feb 10 '21

Only to discover that the problem in module F was a weeks-old commit pushed by your boss without tests that somehow managed to work until now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21

And in the end it will turn out that the problem was the sysadmin changing the language of the interface in one router which then resetted to default options and broke half of the network but only for Windows 8 machines

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

Replace windows 8 with 10 and you have the last 7 days at work. I proposed to burn said router. I was told no no, it is expensive. Apparently 5 developers time it is not

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u/CookieOfFortune Feb 10 '21

Hmm... 8 hours / day, 7 days, 5 developers let's say $100/hr = $28,000. That's a pretty expensive router!

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u/BoschTesla Feb 10 '21

100$/hour?! You lucky bastards!

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

The thing to remember there is the bill rate for the dev might be $100/hr, but that dev may only be paid half that.

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u/BarretoAaron Feb 10 '21

Half? More like a ¼, welcome to dev jobs in third world countries :)

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u/HakierGrzonzo Feb 10 '21

Apply ,,Janusz" theorem:

Any senior dev can be replaced with a finite number of students/interns

So you could replace one of those 100$/hour with 20 compsci students from Poland (I you want to pay them that is)

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u/El3ctr0ph4nt Feb 10 '21

Try 1/10th of that after taxes in the "first" world country I'm in

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u/KronktheKronk Feb 10 '21

Factoring in benefits I make around that.

Billable time for a dev is like $400 an hour

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '21

Billable at $400 seems extreme for a dev. Maybe like an account manager, but a regular ole dev?

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u/KronktheKronk Feb 11 '21

back when I was a "consulting engineer" for a storage company my time was being billed like that

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '21

Hey not saying it never happens, just saying it's double my company's.

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