devRant used to be enjoyable, a great place to let loose or see a great workplace or coding rant. Now it's full of abusers, just another place for the holy wars: PC vs Mac vs Linux, Angular vs React, C# vs Java, tabs vs spaces.

At this point I don't care if I ever get my fucking sticker or stressball.

When i worked for a large, international bank (whose name rhymes with shitty), I always had to use the following formula to estimate projects.

1. Take estimate of actual work
2. Multiply by 2 to cover project manager status reports
3. Multiply by 4 to cover time spent in useless meetings.
4. Multiply by 2 to cover user support and bug fix tasks.
5. Multiply by 2 to cover my team lead tasks.
6. Multiply by 3 to cover useless paperwork and obtaining idiotic necessary approvals to do anything
7. Finally, multiply by 3.14159 to cover all the other stupid shit that the idiots that run that company come up with.

It's only a slight exaggeration. Tasks that required less than a day of actual coding would routinely require two weeks to accomplish and get implemented.

"I have this idea for an app that someone should make....."

Stop fucking begging for likes. If you need a stress ball that fucking bad, buy one, or attend a dev conference. Vendors give those away by the metric crapton at dev cons. That, and pens that stop working by the time you sign your name on their spam list.

Welcome to the new world. Microsoft is now the top open source contributor on Github.

I am a full stack developer....

Just threw away 5 copies of Windows Vista I got for $15 a piece when CompUsa closed their store here. Only ever opened 1 of them.

Wow I really need to clean my office more often.

When I get stuck I sometimes reassign the task to one of my coworkers.

Damn, people on this app rant and complain alot... Oh, wait...

I've learned over the years that there's no such thing as a Proof of Concept app. You might as well call them beta versions since some salesperson or manager will see it and immediately tell clients about it who will buy it and then you have to support and expand it.

How I feel every Friday afternoon at work....

Recently saw a piece of code left by a former coworker where he converted an int to a long, by converting it to a string, then parsing the string.

What's the statute of limitations on references/recommendations for former coworkers? Got a call today from a recruiter about a guy I worked with 3 years ago.... Time to update my friend.

Last office building I worked at, the company across the hall recycled old PCs for businesses. They had two reserved parking spots in the building parking lot right up front. The signs read "Employee of the Month"

Every day when I came in the owner's $80k luxury car was parked in the middle of both spots.

Just love when LinkedIn lets me know how many recruiters in Russia want to be my friends.

I took over an application that consisted of 4 MSSQL (2005 at the time) databases, hundreds of tables, thousands of stored procedures, maybe a 1/4 of them actual still being used, external links to more than 20 other databases (MSSQL, Oracle and DB2) which all ran from a single "master" stored proc that was kicked off nightly by scheduled job.

The existing documentation consisted of a single word document, about three pages long, describing how to set up the application... on the Sql Server 6 server it had been originally created on two generations ago.

I used to lead a team of several devs. Then we learned the boss was using the company as his personal piggy bank. Now I lead a team of 1.