Melkath

Covid happened and gave me work from home.

The order to return to office happened and I said no.

In the back and forth, I defined my official schedule as 9 to 5.

Now, typically I work late a night or 2 a week so I start work a couple hours late/stop work a couple hours early a night or 2 a week.

And there is my tidbit about blowing up Palestinians instead of ensuring Americans have potable water.

Here’s my half baked response.

They can pipeline oil over thousands of miles.

Why can’t they pipeline water?

Oh shit. I think Nestlé heard me and all of our money goes to blowing up Palestinians, not giving drinkable water to Flint.

Disregard please.

It’s your choice.

The whole “be the active person who stops the riches from ruining earth” trope is a lie.

The current US is just as bad as Israel if not worse.

All the losers who either flunked high school or flunked, but had daddy to pay their way have brought fascism back en masses.

If you have the luxury to move to Sweden, or the Bahammas, as far as I’m concerned, do it.

You’ll be in a better place when Israel nukes Iran, WWIII pops off, and the US cripples the internet/critical infrastructure around the world.

Illegal? Yes.

Stops businesses from doing this kind of BS? No.

Also, is this a legit thing posted at a legit workplace? Probably not.

Idk dude.

I had a leaded gas goped whose motor was from a weed Wacker.

My step-dad brought home the gas can of unleaded, then I squirted some of the lead additive in the can, and I’d kinda swish the can around before refueling the goped.

Worked for the 2 months before the goped was stolen.

Didn’t end up buying the skylark, so never had my dinosaur juice leadifying skills refined.

Boats, planes, gopeds, racing cars, farm equipment, old cars.

If you arent going to an actual boat/plane/tractor filling station and you just want to, for example, fuel up your goped, you just get regular unleaded and a lead additive and mix them before putting the fuel in the tank.

My first car was almost a completely trashed 1970 Buick Skylark, this was in 2002.

It ran on leaded gasoline, so the plan was that id need to fill the unleaded gas into a gas-can, then mix in the lead additive, shake, and then fill its gas tank.

Ended up getting an 89 Caddy Deville that the seller was asking half as much for.

The real joke was the pain that every developer feels when the end user gives such useful and actionable feed back as “It broke. Fix. Unga bunga.”

“It works on my machine” is trying to be polite when, after hours and hours of trying to teach a person how to report a bug with necessary information, all they ever get is “It broke. Fix. Unga bunga.”

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Thank you for your TED talk defining enshitification.

Middle management bloat.

Edit: Bonus points for

Developers knowing how to write secure code helps, so they should theoretically also be capable of QA themselves to a degree.

Which is straight up just saying “why don’t the devs just do it themselves? I’m busy with meetings to whine back and forth with other middle management.”

That’s a fair point.

When I departed QA myself, it was in the onset of automation.

In return, when the QA jobs disappeared, I learned basic scripting and started automating BI processes.

So, I would say:

1. I should hope modern QA departments (as I am told they exist) are automated and share both their tests and their results with devs in an efficient manner.

2. I don’t think QA departments really exist today in a substantive way, and if they do, it isnt in as cooperative of a fashion as described in 1.

I still have observed a world where QA went bye bye. Planning? Drafting a Scope of Work? Doing a proper analysis of the solution you are seeking, fleshing it out, and setting a comprehensive list of firm requirements that define delivery of said solution? Offering the resources to test the deliverable against the well documented and established requirements to give the all clear before the solution is delivered?

Doesn’t exist anymore, and modern “QA” is being the lemming who sits in meetings as listens to the management, then schedules meetings to sit and complain at the Dev about how they aren’t “hitting the mark” (Because it was about 4 feet directly in front of them when they published, and is now at 5 erratically placed spaces behind them).

Ummm, from what ive seen, the general vibe is, you know how your boss would like to chain you to a desk in an office and ignore all your human wants and just make you a mindless drone that does their bidding, and as long as you are chained at that desk, you know that every couple days/weeks/months they will suddenly cater to your needs for a 45min to 4hr task, and based on how they like your performance, you stay chained to that desk or you get your needs catered to just enough to make you want to do WHATEVER you just did again?

That’s what jail/prison is.

Human rights removed. Behavioral programming at maximum.

If I lost my leg right now, I would be destitute.

2 years in a prison and I’d probably be one-leg-hopping all over the place. Or buried out back. And we are learning that American police stations and prisons have a problem with literal shallow graveyards behind their buildings.

One of the major explainers about why badges hate 1st Amendment Auditors.

I guess I’m just being a snob here.

I worked for an actual QA department that produced actual documentation and ran actual full scale QA cycles.

In the past 15 years, I have seen that practice all but fully disappear and be replaced by people who click at things until they find 1 thing, have a verbal meeting vaguely describing it, and repeat 2 to 3 times a day.

IMO, that isn’t QA. It’s being lazy, illiterate, and whiny while making the dev do ALL of the actual work.

Correct, younglings use training sabers that don’t cut.

Padawans, knights, and masters spar with their whole ass sabers.

A devout Kool aid drinker I see.

Did you buy that Kool aid with your story points?

I hear they have a competitive exchange rate to Stanley nickels.

Which, when put to practice, means QAs become BAs, no comprehensive QA occurs, and when the code is shit because they have no actual QA support and the scope changes constantly with no firm documented requirements, the dev gets fired.

Great model for people who like to sit in meetings and complain.

Horrible model for the people who actually work.

Still working.

I stopped being able to find QA work in the early 2010s or so. Converted to BI Developer. Have not encountered a dedicated QA at any of the small assortment of jobs I have had since.

Edit: And fair, despite it being a waste of time cult mentality engineered to make developers suffer and enshitify software quality, Agile got enough Kool aid drinkers to qualify it as more than a fad.

Yes grasshopper.

I was a QA for over 15 years.

Then the “Agile” fad ripped through the industry and QA died.