I like the illusion that I’m being paid extra for stuff so for me it’s ChatGPT and Presearch or Bing.

Google probably gets 1% of my traffic and stack overflow even less.

The Google traffic is usually to double check the other engines didn’t miss anything, and only about 1% of those times is that the case :)

Yay @yesNo! Congratulations!

@Wisecrack I love the double meaning in your message. Sometimes I do feel like I need head trauma 😂

Don’t worry @yesNo, there are ways you can stay in touch with your fellow captives.

Also life would be so much easier for you if you were in a better workplace.

I know because my current workplace is a breeze compared to the workplace a close friend of mine left recently.

I do also agree that your rants are hilarious though so would be awesome if you still posted them even if they are about stuff that happened ages ago :)

@ostream yeah actually now that I think about it I think their data was riddled with free text issues.

Several times a week I would question whether or not the developer of the source system ever heard of validation checks, or about any other input type besides text fields.

Granted their 50 year old mainframe system that still runs on COBOL was way worse. They literally had a manual as thick as an encyclopaedia that remapped all the nonsensical short codes for their table names and column names to human readable names, along with data types, UML diagrams and rough explanations of how certain formats work since even their numeric columns didn’t follow any format you would see in modern databases.

Now that I think about that’s actually more documentation than most of the other tables I’ve ever worked with 😂

They even had one of the COBOL devs that worked on it in house to answer questions!

@Lensflare literally this! 😂

The client’s data swamp was truly something to behold. Took me and a few colleagues a few months to drain and clean it up enough so that they could answer basic questions with any accuracy like how many customers do we have? Is this customer still alive so that I don’t send ads to dead people by accident, like I did that one time… etc

Would have been even funnier if the ad was for life insurance

@ostream yeah I came across this a while back now. Can’t remember the exact context but I remember that it was a weird case where just casting the string wasn’t going to fix it and that it caused a bunch of other turmoil as well