IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Neranja

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ShakyJake said:
Is this everyone's experience?
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Yes, that is the curse of IT: You get requests and requirements from people who do not know anything how stuff works internally, and suddenly you have to explain why that one simple feature, that looked similar to all the other features that were no problem yet, is suddenly requiring a major architectural restructuring, which of course has to be tested as well.

The worst part of it all is: The time it takes to explain any of this (at least 10 to 15 minutes, but can take up to an hour or so) could be used to actually work on the problem at hand, and sometimes this goes back and forth for a while. Sometimes even explaining it multiple times to different stakeholders and managers at different levels of technical expertise and involvement. Drives me insane.
 
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Noodleface

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Not sure about other companies but product management here does not decide what features we need. They manage the product and the features we deliver.

I basically have free reign to architect what I want and then present it to some stakeholders and then plan it if it all sounds good to them.
 
Kuro

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VP of Sales demands I give him full access to all administration, accounting, finance, and HR folders and databases this morning. Insists he doesn't need permission from anyone because he is a VP and his wife is a 33% company owner, and he has a report to the president due in two days that he needs that access for.

Immediately run to the Company President, there is no report due. They are now yelling while I skittered away to work on printers.
 
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Phazael

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He us lucky you did not go to Legal. SVPs pull shit like that all the time where I work and I have made it very clear that I do nothing without proper vetting. Sure a butthurt suit can fire me for not breaking the rules (or law) but making exceptions like that is how careers get ended.
 
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Kuro

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Yeah, I was like "This sounds like something where I never get another job even remotely close to it/audit/security"
 
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TJT

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Kuro said:
VP of Sales demands I give him full access to all administration, accounting, finance, and HR folders and databases this morning. Insists he doesn't need permission from anyone because he is a VP and his wife is a 33% company owner, and he has a report to the president due in two days that he needs that access for.

Immediately run to the Company President, there is no report due. They are now yelling while I skittered away to work on printers.
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I would have just demanded he file a ticket for it. Then demand that he has an approval for the HR db from the HR team. Finance and accounting most people won't care about but the HR people actually are good about guarding PII and compensation data. If he was expecting something extra special from you he would have stopped there.
 
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Kuro

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Unfortunately or fortunately we don't have an HR department so all of that information is also handled by the ex-con bookie that is our head of accounting, and she's best friends with the sales VP so she would have just handwaved everything
 
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Kuro

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Phazael said:
Are you working for the mafia or something?
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Kind of, they're one of the old Italian families that ran things in town before their millennial kids turned out lazy bums. Our company Christmas party is at a 100+ year old Italian steakhouse
 
Kithani

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Kind of, they're one of the old Italian families that ran things in town before their millennial kids turned out lazy bums. Our company Christmas party is at a 100+ year old Italian steakhouse
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So… yes?

Edit: weren’t you the guy whose boss played a hentai game? So you work for the Hentai mafia?
 
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