On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 21:37:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:13:22 +0200
"Paulo Pinto" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:09:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> The saddest thing is that people are paying big bucks for
> this kind of
> "enterprise" code. It's one of those things that make me
> never want to
> pay for *any* kind of software... why waste the money when
> you can
> download the OSS version for free? Yeah a lot of OSS code is
> crap, but
> it's not like it's any worse than the crap you pay for.
>
Welcome to my world. As a Fortune 500 outsourcing consulting
company
employee, I see this type of code everyday.
I find it depressing to see just how *easy* it is to have
dailywtf-worthy material. They anonymized my name as Nate here:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We_Have_Met_the_Enemy.aspx
Note also that the "' ...code here" and "' ...more code here"
sections
were typically HUGE.
And that was only scratching the surface of the lunacy that was
going
on there - both in and out of the codebase.
I've been sticking to contract stuff now, largely because I
really
just can't take that sort of insanity anymore (not that I ever
could).
If I ever needed to go back to 9-5 code, or cubicles, or
open-floorplan
warrooms, I'd *really* be in trouble.
One of the reasons that keeps me in the company is the offer
around
my area. Many of the other companies I would work for, are the
same
type or I will be forced to switch region for something better.
--
Paulo
