Thanks, xkcd: https://xkcd.com/303
not even a joke, sometimes this is just how it is when you’re testing software.
Sometimes you build a loading screen into your application that pops up when you hit a special combination of buttons.
only when you get along with the person testing your stuff (because the other one would probably get me in trouble)
Sometimes I’m so glad I work from home…
I worked from home as a contractor once. Boss was kind of a jerk, though.
I’m an independent consultant who works from home 99% of the time. My boss keeps sexually harassing me.
Remember the Windows 95 copying files animation?
A colleague and I were sitting waiting for a shit-ton (UK Imperial, not metric) of files for the project we were working on to be copied to a backup folder when our (pretty computer-clueless) boss wandered up behind us and said (with no irony at all - he was called Wolfgang): “Playing a game on company time?”
But then we all also wrote scripts which printed meaningless computer gibberish to the screen so we could take a bit of time out and relax - and if he ever showed up we’d be allL “It’s compiling” or “It’s recalibrating the main drive” or “It’s defragging the video ROM”.
I feel like this has gotten a lot better though. I used to work on projects that took 10 minutes to compile and now the build tools I use are nearly instant
“better”
Compile time was Usenet time.
Oh bless you, stay away from c++ and rust
That’s much worse - fewer excuses!
Or just use rust stakeholder, it’s guaranteed to make you look very busy 😄
