"reach out"

"touch base"

"ping an email over"

Just a couple of examples of terms people like recruiters love using that make you cringe so hard you want to throw yourself under the next bus. Very similar to clients who say:

"can we make it pop"

"I showed it to my graphic designer friend and they said it needs more fonts"

"I've made some improvements in Word for you"

Having to write a 3 page proposal to request "additional time" so you can write unit tests before and during development, explaining why it isn't a waste of time. 😩

An interest at a young age, countless hours exploring, college, University, portfolio, junior job, promotions, finally you're senior developer - over a decade of hard work paid off...

"You're good with computers, can you fix my toaster?"

💥😳🔫

When you can't find your car keys and before you realise what's going on your immediate thought is to google then... 😒🙄

Sending me to a company that already had the position filled, me not finding out until they made me wait an hour then played with their phones all the way through. Then asking me to recommend them to my peers. Recruiters, you don't do your already poor reputations any good.

That member of staff* that decided to write a batch script with calls to SVN, and named it svn.bat

*me

The WordPress codebase.

My (ex) manager: "There's no point to MVC in web development."

A whole week for "a new ecommerce system" delivered shortly after the MD declare how simple it would be with some hybrid pseudo code/flow chart on their magic whiteboard.

Words were had.

See this far too often in our inherited project:

<?php
$stuff = "";
// ...
$stuff[] = "something";