@jiraTicket The messed up part is IT made a script to notify them of a ticketing server failure, but the script had an error in it and didn’t fire. It was a new script. So even though the website had all the symptoms of a ticket server failure, they didn’t bother to check that server’s logs before hitting restart on the website. I decided to make a decision tree so stakeholders and staff don’t panic like this again.

@AvatarOfKaine I’m just glad marijuana had been legalized where I live. So I can check out with gummies and cookies.

@max19931 Website A was intended to be a CMS that staff could use and not contact the software development company to build out pages on site B. All this happened before I was added to the staff. A lot of money spent trying to not spend more money 😵‍💫

Luckily this wasn’t phishing. It did scare the shit out of me when this staff person made this claim though.

Website A has this weird setup where the homepage will redirect to Website B homepage. Website B has Google sso. And logging in to Website A CMS goes to the homepage and then Website B homepage. So after log in, a user has to directly go to a CMS page on Website A if they want to get to the CMS.

It’s a stupid setup. I did not come up with this stupidity. But I’m going to use this as more evidence of why my employer needs to retire website A. My brain is 🤯 after learning how much time and money was spent with a software development company for a load of 💩.

@azuredivay The staging site was setting the cookie to the main domain. When I was doing real life testing, logging into my staging account gave me access to my prod account.

I’ve had a similar thing happen with a different employer’s products. One of their apps on a subdomain issued an auth cookie that was set to the main domain. So users who came to the main site after getting an auth cookie visiting the subdomain app were treated like they were authorized for the main site. It caused a lot of chaos for orders because these users weren’t asked to login or create an account. So we had lots of orders with mailing addresses but no email addresses to contact the customer.

Let this stand as my villain origin story lol jk 😂

It’s all for the best that I self exile from that slack. I’ve had other encounters with “nutters” there. Those were manageable. This last one was a doozy though.

I was only describing the working conditions. The lasher out decided that I was saying that poor and disabled kids were problem and started railing into me because the word “serve” was “problematic” and education is a human right. This is the short version of it. Someone else pointed out that my comments aren’t saying that. And lasher started accusing me of ableism and povertyism and “didn’t think we should ignore it for the sake of conversation.” So my thread asking for support around big life decisions turned into her “calling me out” for perceived prejudice. So I called this person out because they’ve done this to me before and now it just went too far with attacking me for no reason and attacking me when I’m at a vulnerable time. I suspect folks here might think I’m hiding other parts of the convo. I’m not. That’s my truth. I’ve been wanting to cut back on the socials. Didn’t think that slack would be the first I cut.

I was seeking support for a hard decision time in my life with my partner. My partner is a teacher and they’re stressed out because they don’t have the resources to do their job. At one point I wrote that the school has been serving more poor families over the years and more students with behavioral problems and disabilities. And the school makes weird decisions like not allowing some students to go to math class but allow them to go to my partner’s art class.

@UnicornPoo Part of the issue is this person clearly had triggers, liked to lash out at others for it, and liked to tout a personal detail about themselves so they could claim some authority. Another part is the admins condoned my responses and did not do the same for the antagonist even though they also felt this person was off base. I’m not putting up with this double standard.

@stackodev Oh yeah, I also let this person have it.

@lorentz This particular slack workspace was being used as a social network of sorts. So that’s why I call it a social slack and a social platform.

@ElectroArchiver For 2020 when we were all remote, they did send everyone a mini sparkling wine and celebration gear like New Year’s glasses and something ball thingy that lighted up. I ended up resigning and my last day was before New Year’s. But I had already received the NYE goodie box so I kept it. Yay I guess 🤣

@jiraTicket that just the way my employer does things.

@Noook when this happened, I was inheriting the code repo from the dev agency. I’m not sure if they didn’t write tests because they just didn’t or my employer didn’t want to pay for them.

@horus yep decision manager was trying to rebel against its human overlords…

@Oktokolo dammit. Devrant removed one of my tags: Director was always accusing me of changing things.

@magicMirror lol

@iSwimInTheC Yeah, all the developers were like “show us this government mandate that orders this.”

@Oktokolo I think I’d be on board with it if my stakeholders didn’t mess with user data so much. There’s something that creates duplicate user records by accident and we’re still trying to figure out why that’s happening. It’s a problem that exited before I started working there. Stakeholders will mark records as “do not use” and not care if they’re tied to active user accounts. So I don’t want a gifter to find that they can’t renew a gift because all of a sudden their giftee is marked “do not use.”

@Oktokolo Well, if someone gave me an Apple Store gift card, I’d sure like to be able to send my gifter a notice that my gift card needs more money 😂

@iSwimInTheC It would still require us to consult with legal because it’s a deviation from what the business currently does with gift memberships and I’m sure the terms and conditions need to be updated. I’m not investing engineering time unless I get a legal ok. It’s a habit from when I worked at a business that had to comply with HIPAA.

@bebetter If it’s a membership they both share, that’s one thing. Or if it’s just to show an order history that’s ok. But the gift membership should only be managed by the recipient. Once the gift is given, it’s out of the giver’s hands. Letting the gifter have access to it just because they are the gifter opens up questions about user privacy and it’s something that my stakeholders would have to check with our legal team about.

@Demolishun Yeah, reduce and reuse bags type of laws.

@jiraTicket It’s one membership per person. “John and Mary” are two people trying to use one membership. Stakeholder thinks those users are trying to cheat the system. I think it’s not a website issue and this requires manual catching. And going back to my initial question, what if there really is a person who wants to be “John and Mary”? Who am I to limit how a user wants to identify?

@C0D4 I’ve had Korean characters come in through the first and last name fields. No one in my downstream has complained about that. But they complain about a “John and Mary” input for the first name. 🤷

@adhdeveloper That’s another thing. Apparently stakeholder has some silent matching protocol that looks at names and uses that to decide if there’s a new user or duplicate. When I heard that, I was wondering if I should just quit.

@jiraTicket First, Google calendar let’s you see a person’s availability. And I am the only dev for the affected website. I needed to be at that meeting. Second, I see you commenting on my rants, acting like the polite police, and trying to correct my behavior. There is no need to correct rants on Devrant unless they are obviously offensive. I am not offending anyone by ranting about my day. You need to stop making assumptions about the situation. You need to stop being the self-appointed polite police. I am tired of you.

@saucyatom IDK. It’s one of those elevators where you choose the floor from the call panel and you’re assigned to an elevator 🤷

@Oktokolo Not fired, laid off. And any of our “severance” was tied to performance, so the company had the upper hand. And IDK why you’re making assumptions my sitch or why you care so much about bringing down my rant.