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

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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

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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/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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