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Whenever someone wants to increase scope mid-sprint

When There Is No Dark Theme in JIRA and You've Been Working in Dark Theme IDEs all day

When Your IT Staff Goes Over Fishing Scams But Lets Employees Prop the Doors Open and Never Lock Their Terminals When AFK

How I Feel When Going Through A Brutal Code Review

Discovering a 1-click way to take down your team's service

(...discovered when someone pulled the lever. Caused a 3-hour outage.) (from an anonymous RIT SE '13 grad)

When two lead developers leave a small company at the same time

When you write an app that solves a problem in a horrifying way, but it just works, so you dont care.

Me finding a patch to my bug on StackOverflow

me passing off the latest release to QA which had no statement of work

Hearing someone advocate SOAP in a design proposal

When the phone screener didn't see the relevant experience on your resume

Credit: Anonymous

One more post on the code review that won’t end

Pager duty during back-to-back SEV 1 incidents

When you have to triage hundreds of unit test failures

When someone across the company breaks something you own

Why my regexes fail

Scariest pumpkin of them all

Life of a Software Engineer