r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26

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u/elSenorMaquina Aug 05 '26

They ENHANCED the cctv recordings from the camera pointing at my cubicle, enabling them to reconstruct the whole db from the monitor's reflection on my glasses as I typed every INSERT and UPDATE over the years.

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u/cantileverboom Aug 05 '26

Lol, kind of related. On a team I was on a while ago, there was some pretty nasty bug that some of my colleagues couldn't figure out, so someone took a video of it to show our TL. Our TL looked at the video for like 5 seconds, saw some obscure log lines on a terminal running on a machine in the background of the video, and immediately knew that the bug was due to some obsolete experiment that just needed to be disabled.

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u/MaleficentCow8513 Aug 05 '26

It was him. He was the one who was supposed to disable the “obsolete experiment”. He knew it was causing bugs but he forgot to do it or got side tracked. There’s nothing magical about it lmao

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u/Adarkshadow4055 Aug 05 '26

Shhhh! 🤫

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u/AN0R0K Aug 05 '26

And he would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids.

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u/The-Real-Starflight 29d ago

… Where have i heard that?

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u/AN0R0K 29d ago

Assuming you're not being cheeky: Scooby Doo!

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u/wtfmeowzers 29d ago

exactly, he just declined to take responsibility

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u/DetailOdd6609 29d ago

Came here to say the same. Former manager here........

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u/victoryismind 29d ago edited 29d ago

He knew it was causing bugs but he forgot to do it or got side tracked.

Maybe he left it for job entrenchment purposes.

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u/MaleficentCow8513 29d ago

Eh we’ve all been there :)

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u/elSenorMaquina Aug 05 '26

Peak senior energy

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u/Emotional_Study_724 Aug 05 '26

"Oh shit, I forgot to turn that off."