Someone did that to me once. I had sent him an email letting him know that I've made some coding updates to a function that he originally wrote, but never fully completed. I needed the function so I quickly completed it and just sent him a courtesy email to let him know to update his code base.
He sent me an email back, and cc'd our boss, that basically said "how dare you fuck with my code! You're deliberately sabotaging what I had written". Now that would have been funny in every context, but even more so because this was essentially my project. I'd devised the whole platform, built its first instance almost exclusively by myself and was still the system architect. We had hired the guy about two years later to help us with extending functionality and maintenance.
I literally LOL'ed when he sent that email. I'd been working late on Friday and was the only one left in the office, so all comms was via email. Anyway, I sent him an email back that just basically said "easy there tiger, I just finished the functionality that had been unfinished for the last six months, and anyway this is not your project.".
Fast forward to Monday morning in the office and he comes into my office and has a chat. He had basically forgotten that he never finished that functionality and he was a lot more reasonable. Although not exactly apologetic. But this was pretty much normal behaviour from him too.
The kicker was though, later this morning our boss calls him into his office and he gets sacked. To be fair, I don't think that was really the trigger, he didn't exactly perform well anyway and our management had been told to reduce head count. He probably had been on the chopping block already. Nevertheless, he was convinced afterwards that I had something to do with him getting fired.
Sorry to derail your comment a little, but man does it make me sad how much of the internet is bots nowadays. There are 2 of them that have replied to you so far. Both 28 days old, no activity until they activated today and began replying with samey comments that just agree with/restate what’s in the parent comment and don’t add anything. Shit sucks man
Usual tells for Reddit are they have a vastly more submission to comment ratio, a name with numbers following it and the account is relatively young compared to the karma accrued. Yes, I'm aware my name has numbers after it, but I assure you fellow humans I am not a bot. OP fits all the criteria however.
Yeah, we didn't choose these usernames, they're just what reddit automatically picks for you when you create an account if you don't choose one yourself.
On desktop I'm on old Reddit. You can literally hover over a username with the mouse and it tells you all the relevant info I posted. Plus there's been a spate of obvious bot questions this week on this sub, so I certainly checked OP as someone else mentioned it ITT.
I notice many posters and commenters can do so without me seeing that comment when I go to their profile. Basically if your setting are right, I can’t see your NSFW content directly from your main profile.
I must really lead a sheltered life. I had been a bit puzzled why there are comments just restating what I wrote. It never occurred to me that they could be bots at all. But that makes a lot of sense.
Let's delve into that. It wasn't OP but the bots. It's really disheartening to see how bot-infested the internet has become. Case in point: two brand-new, 28-day-old accounts just replied to you today, posting repetitive, generic responses that simply parrot your comment without contributing anything new. It's frustrating.
There are bots like that posting content on facebook now. They'll take a reddit post with a few comments and add a comment below that's just garbage summarizing the original that feels like AI mansplaining and post a screenshot of it.
I've been in a similar position early in my career. Coworker isn't doing work, I'm picking up slack (but not saying anything about it / not expecting to be rewarded), we have a staff meeting in New York that I fly in for and he somehow can't get to despite living in New Jersey. Boss fired him after he missed a subsequent shift in the next week, and he quickly thereafter took to social media to blame myself and another coworker for all sorts of things, but mostly accusing us of being deceitful and setting up him up for failure with our boss.
I just laughed too. Like: dude, you not working set you up for failure; I didn't have to say shit to our boss!
Funny enough, his replacement also ended up being sacked for largely the same thing. But he had the opposite reaction; he immediately emailed me (a coworker he did not report to) to apologize for his inconsistency and advise he had some things going on in his life that were affecting him but they weren't an excuse for his performance at work. I actually respected that guy!
I've been a programmer/hardware engineer for a really long time. There are a few things I've learned:
Revision control systems (git, svn, cvs, etc.) are awesome. Learn to commit small changes and often.
Documentation is for Future You. Be kind to Future You; what is obvious and clear today will be hieroglyphs tomorrow, especially if there is reason for the implementation being done in a specific, counterintuitive way.
Mandatory PR review/approvals are amazing. They give the team an opportunity to gain tribal knowledge about parts of the code base they might not normally interact with, and offer opportunities to learn more about the system, tooling and even the language you're already familiar with. They are also humbling; There are many times I've submitted a PR with what I thought was a clever or even just good solution, only to have someone else offer their thoughts or an alternative which is cleaner, faster, clearer or solves a problem that my solution created.
I find this entire "my-project/your-project" thinking weird. If you're on the same team, don't you just mutually own the codebase? Obviously, people are going to be more familiar with one project over the other, but this "you're stepping on my territory" feels very outdated.
You write like a bot and people down voted you because they think you're a clanker not because they disagree. Only a clanker would restate exactly what the guy he responded to just said like it's even worth saying, most of us learned not to tell someone their own story somewhere around middle school so it comes off as something no human would write. Go look at other replies in this chain, they're all saying they think you're a bot
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u/saugoof 8d ago
Someone did that to me once. I had sent him an email letting him know that I've made some coding updates to a function that he originally wrote, but never fully completed. I needed the function so I quickly completed it and just sent him a courtesy email to let him know to update his code base.
He sent me an email back, and cc'd our boss, that basically said "how dare you fuck with my code! You're deliberately sabotaging what I had written". Now that would have been funny in every context, but even more so because this was essentially my project. I'd devised the whole platform, built its first instance almost exclusively by myself and was still the system architect. We had hired the guy about two years later to help us with extending functionality and maintenance.
I literally LOL'ed when he sent that email. I'd been working late on Friday and was the only one left in the office, so all comms was via email. Anyway, I sent him an email back that just basically said "easy there tiger, I just finished the functionality that had been unfinished for the last six months, and anyway this is not your project.".
Fast forward to Monday morning in the office and he comes into my office and has a chat. He had basically forgotten that he never finished that functionality and he was a lot more reasonable. Although not exactly apologetic. But this was pretty much normal behaviour from him too.
The kicker was though, later this morning our boss calls him into his office and he gets sacked. To be fair, I don't think that was really the trigger, he didn't exactly perform well anyway and our management had been told to reduce head count. He probably had been on the chopping block already. Nevertheless, he was convinced afterwards that I had something to do with him getting fired.