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Fun story: I’m an electronics engineer and have been working as a manufacturing engineer for the last 15 years. The company I’m with right now is basically forced me into software development. I learned c++ and python in school but never really did much with them professionally, work on a bunch of side projects at home but software development has never been a part of my career until the last year and a half. I’ve been asked to start developing production tests and other production applications in our electronics assembly department. Mostly this is creating small python applications that program and test pcbas, nothing large maybe a half a dozen files and a couple thousand lines of code. But now they’ve asked me to start developing an integration with our erp and they want it to real time push production data from each bench, operator scans a PCB loads it into a jig presses a button it gets programmed and tested, “my” software reads the erp and pushes all of this information back into the erp slowly moving jobs forward eventually closing them out as operators hit counts. My new manufacturing execution software was written entirely with cloud code and is now two dozen files and almost 100,000 lines of code. No one at work cares. But it all works, we haven’t found any real problems yet. I’ve been encountering bugs as operators use the mes but it’s dumb stuff like not understanding operator behavior and trying to code around that, ie I didn’t log out I didn’t scan a unit I forgot to do x y or z… I am both incredibly impressed and insanely worried. This new system changes money in our erp, and no one who actually knows software development has ever looked at this ever.

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They pay me well, I get to work on things I enjoy and my boss doesn’t actually manage anything so I can kind just do my thing and no one bothers me. Not sure how solvent the company will be so I’m just riding it for now. But it sucks. I fucking hate my boss, not to mention he is magat asshole.

It is the VERY CONCEPT of technical debt! Shortcut after shortcut shortcut… The company is literally shortcuts all the way down. No left at the company even knows how to work the erp properly. Because the person who set it up and customized it didn’t document or train anyone and then left… Technical debt. How about the mountain of product SKUs that were forced out the door never properly tested, filled with bugs and zero documentation… Left of the next guy… Technical debt. What about all those products not having real assembly or test documents and there being a literal single guy that knows how to test and program everything? No way to pass that info on besides a mountain of manufacturing engineering work? Technical debt.

What are you talking about dude!?!? Lolol.

I work for the absolute LAZIEST engineering manager I have ever known right now. Like dude has Ages of Empires open on his desktop all day at work. He is last remaining engineer from a team long ago that created the wireless technology that put us on the map. This was maybe 15 yrs ago, he was obviously the dumbest member of that team because he is secretly hiding the fact that he can no longer get the original source code to compile and he is slowly running out of ways to bullshit around it. We are now owned by a VC so upper management could not care less, but this guy creates tech debt out the wazoo! Him and the 20 yr old EE make changes to firmware, PCBs, mechanical designs CONSTANTLY and dont document any of it. it is crazy. They break production all the time. Nothing is documented, basic assembly, programming and test documentation for production is a decade old, if it even exists. They just do not give a shit, the engineering manager is already checked out, and his protege has never even seen what a good company looks like, or what engineering design control is. I feel really bad for whatever company gets suckered into buying us as that is the only concern of the VC, cut costs (primarily labor by laying a bunch of people off) as much as possible to make the company look good. Whoever buys us is going to be in for huge surprise! lolol

Technical debt is very real and can complete fuck companies.

Who else read this in Patric Stewarts voice?

That’s not my narrative at all. What I am saying these people CHOSE to work at meta, hense are likey devoid corporate moral standings and would likely get swooped up by the next shitty company that wants to treat humans like profit cattle and since they’re STILL at meta, they would likely be okay with it. I’m not generalizing about high skill workers, I’m shitting on people who work at meta.

What a bunch of BS. Yeah, I’m sure people working at FACEBOOK are destitute and have no options for any other jobs or employment, they’re completely unskilled and just have no fucking options. /S with a CAPITAL S

Fucking disgusting. The people making these decisions should be responsible for every person this causes harm too.

Wow, what a way with words… Deadbedroom? Love it.

Couldn’t communities desiced themselves if they want their forums to be indexed?

Don’t reply to the Russian troll anymore. Even if they are not from Russia they are clearly pathetic.

100%, Kamala actually promised to go around and give each man that voted for her a blow job personally, if they build and gift wrap an IED and send it to the IDF for the strip.

Lol

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It’s disgusting! It makes me fucking sick. It’s called controlled opposition. The American political system is a total fucking joke and completely rigged against the American people, bought and paid for by large corporate interests. That’s capitalism and is breaking our entire human society.

As an American tho, during the recent presidential election, I sadly knew that voting for her was the ONLY OPTION to prevent the COMPLETE FREE FALL into fascism we have right now. I know it sadly would not fix all the currently broken aspects of our country, but it prevent what now have… Genocide in Gaza, fully funded my my fucking tax dollars, while trump, his ghoulish family, and Nazi wanna be goons rape the rest of the world and laugh about it.

Even you have been fucking duped into thinking this is a red vs blue issue in America, this a fucking war being waged against the American people by billionaires man. Red Blue, dem republican… That’s the talking points were supposed to be arguing over so stop regurgitating that bullshit and get it straight. This is the 0.01% vs the rest of the world.

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I wonder what the active dev community on Lemmy looks like? These are problems that could potentially have solutions?

Well, in this case I am sorry, my country shouldn’t be invading any other countries. I will agree with this, death to American fascism. But don’t let the these maga scum fool you, you say it’s not their fault. While a small group were “useful” idiots and got scammed into this, a much larger group are just racist pos. It is absolutely insane the amount of brainwashed idiots walking around in this country.

What I am trying to say, and the reason you’re getting down voted for a dumbass opinion, is that for any and ALL reasons you could possibly come up with about her being a bad candidate, trump is objectively 10-100x WORSE on exactly the same reason… Plus 100x extra insane and horrible policies for each of those 1 arguments you made a dumbass comment about.

No one said anything about “history starting” on Trump’s 2nd term. I’m saying you OBJECTIVELY are ignoring facts, and it makes your comment, and you for making it, look stupid.

I HATE our two party system more than anyone, but I’ll bet you either voted for trump, didn’t vote, or voted third part during the recent presidential election. IMO, the current state of the US is a direct outcome of your stupidity, and stupid people like you. That, or your not from the US, in which case STFU.

wtf even is this comment. You know who the orange diaper-filler is besties with, right!? Fucking mouth-breathers.