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Marketing pushed deadline for release one week earlier. That sucks.

What sucks even more is that frontend was not ready, but our frontend guy promised to take a look over the weekend and finish it. Thats cool we might make.

What sucks is that he fixed one small issue on Sunday 9PM and left the whole thing unusable.

So guess who was googling till 4am how to do stuff in bloody javascript?

In the end, I beleive I did a decent job and we ca release some kind of alpha and get rid of my dirty hacks later. That's how you get technical debt.

Now lets see what my boss thinks about it and if we are really going to release it or if I'm going to kill somebody.

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  • 9
    7y
    You should not have stepped in IMHO.
    Now you are going to get the blame for any bugs
  • 6
    7y
    Those are the fixes and workarounds which were intended to be "remade properly later" which won't be touched ever again.
  • 1
    7y
    @donnico Not much blame around here, I blame our CEO and rest of the team can't decide whether it is his fault or marketings :-)

    Unfortunately I do care about our product so I wouldn't let them discredit it even more.
  • 1
    7y
    @kolaente Actually, they would have to as we are going to build on top of it over the time, so this piece will have to be cleaned up. We will have to pay the debt unfortunately :-(
  • 2
    7y
    Kill marketing.
    The front-end guy juat wanted his weekend. Can't blame him for that.
  • 0
    7y
    @Root Well, yes the main culprit is marketing but if the frontend guy admitted that he wouldn't have time, I could do the work through all weekend and not at the last moment. He needs to improve his estimates.
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