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I feel like everything went south so fast, so i think im gonna quit. Everyone in this company is pissed at me right now, and they are removing a bunch of work on my plate. I've always had this idea that one mess up = leave or get fired, so i think now is a good time to leave. For those wondering, i broke a 100 million dollar backend payment system, and its currently not working in any environment

I feel like everything went south so fast, so i think im gonna quit. Everyone in this company is pissed at me right now, and they are removing a bunch of work on my plate. I've always had this idea that one mess up = leave or get fired, so i think now is a good time to leave. For those wondering, i broke a 100 million dollar backend payment system, and its currently not working in any environment

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[–] [deleted] • 10 pts

If you can bust the shit so easily their process is probably fucked up.

[–] • 2 pts

What my brother said too, as a dev, i also have the responsibility of being QA, bug fix team, deployment coordinator, and post production auditor

[–] • 4 pts

As a former QA for a Fortune 100 company and also another QA for the largest regional employer, I must say WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

[–] • 2 pts

Yeah there's a reason my recruiter mentioned they're having a hard time "filling this role" ... anyone competent nopes the fuck out almost immediately

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

The should probably take some of those hundreds of millions in payments and spend some alleviating single points of failure then.

[–] • 2 pts

I asked them in the beginning if i could get a request for testing. They told me to intercept the production system so i can snag one there as its getting execcuted. Excuse me, you want me to do what now? Apparently, there are no standard testing requests you can use, or a pattern or anything

[–] • 0 pt

Show them as much loyalty as they've shown you. Fuck em!

[–] • 1 pt

The thing is my recruiter who manages this account said they aren't looking to fire me. So im just thinking to myself, these people just get off humiliating me and yelling at me

[–] • 7 pts

Look for a job before making it official.

Paint yourself as super competent and looking for an opportunity to rise where your current work place doesn't seem interested in your development... or something.

Finding a job when you don't have a job is not easy nor fun.

[–] • 1 pt

Already have an offer lined up somewhere else, and ready to go. Talking to them today about it, and am seriously considering bailing from current company and jumping ship

[–] • 2 pts

I would leave then. I jumped ship lots of times and never regretted it. Sticking it to shitty employers feels so good.

If you really want to stick it to them tell them you wanted to give 2 weeks notice but the new company wants you to start right away. Then tell the new job you gave 2 weeks notice and take a 2 week vacation.

[–] • 1 pt

Then what on earth are you waiting for??

[–] • 0 pt

A fun one from today, they asked me to do something last week. I didnt do it, because they had me do 10 other things. So i guess their way of doing things is to throw a hundred things at you, knowing you'll miss one of them, and yell at you for the one mistake instead?

[–] • 2 pts

Many years ago, I once took a law firm's document management system offline for 2 days by accident, stayed up for 2 days straight trying to fix it. Once things were running relatively smoothly (reverting to a backup from a week earlier), I went on vacation that I had scheduled 2 months in advance the next week. When I got back from vacation, I literally walked into the foyer of the office at 9am on Monday morning and my boss called me into his office and proceeded to scream at me then fire me.

If you see the writing on the wall, you should do yourself a favor and just quit before they fire you, if you can afford it. If you need unemployment benefits, which they will probably contest for "failure to perform duties" or some bs, you can always counter-contest. I did, and still got them. I basically forced them to fire me cause I knew if I quit I wouldn't get any unemployment.

Start looking for a new job right now.

Also, sounds like their backup system sucks, like ours did.

[–] • 1 pt

I already have a new job offer lined up and everything, second company is ready to hire me today actually. There are multiple points of failure in this one, the system itself is working off one function point, no distribution mechanism, no standardized mocking system, doing unit tests by straight calling the API (this is a big NO in most places i have worked, you NEVER call the API directly for testing, you mock the services), no services or architecture. By the leads own words, the system was built and rushed out in 2 days and now theyre going back in and "fixing" it, i just happened to be the guy that fucked it all up

[–] • 1 pt

If it makes you feel any better, the array I took down by accident, trying to fix failing backups because of a corrupted LUN, was documented as a RAID-6, but was in actuality a RAID-5, so when I pulled the second drive all hell broke loose.

If you already have an offer set in stone, no sense in staying, just walk out.

[–] • 1 pt

In my case they were doing a system upgrade for the system and it failed to start. Essentially they were trying to merge two systems into one, and had me do the entire job of developing, testing, deployment, post deployment testing, etc. Needless to say, I caused many problems in the process because as it turns out, ive only worked there for a month, so clearly i have no fucking clue what im doing yet. You miss dedicated QA teams when you dont have one at all

[–] • 0 pt

You just answered your own question. You have ready employment. Make today your last day. Clean out your things, get ready to depart. Why have loyalty to a company that shows none?

[–] • 1 pt

True, companies dont give a shit about you, so why should i care about them?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

For those wondering, i broke a 100 million dollar backend payment system, and its currently not working in any environment

Woah, hold on a minute! You are doing good work there and I think you should stay and really "help" them out a lot more.

[–] • 1 pt

I've quit my job in the past month and am now making per hour what my overtime pay was in my previous job. I have to drive a bit further but its worth it. There are so many high paying jobs out there right now. Its time! Do it!

[–] • 0 pt

Let them fire you, so you can collect gibs. Before the ax falls, steal as much shit as possible.

[–] • 0 pt

You can't get unemployment benefits if you are fired for mistakes or quit, only if you are laid off.

[–] • 0 pt

What I meant was, if OP quit, he ain't gonna git shit.

[–] • 0 pt

Wait to be fired or no unemployment.

[–] • 0 pt

It was an part tine it manager for ten years.

Then without being told I was fired.

The office manager had replaced me with a mate and replaced my Linux system over xmass with a ms active desktop.

Anyway a month goes by and boom. A virus is unleashed and hijack encrypts all 250000 files on the network demanding $1 million to unlock.

Ever better was that the new it guy had turned off my auto backups to a Nas but failed to implimemt his own.

That was a good day when the owner rang me up asking for my help. (which was when I found out I'd been replaced so a bad and good day)

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

But you learned something right? Now you will be better than before the screw up.

[–] • 0 pt

You should consult the Magic 8-Ball. I let the 8-Ball make all my important life decisions.

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