The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:12AM from the weeping-anecdotes dept.

manavendra asks: "I'm currently working for a solution provider for telcos, and as part of product migration the entire API has to be 'internationalized'. Owing to a legacy architecture, most (if not all) application logic is still embedded in PL/SQL stored packages. My job: find hard coded strings, and replace with calls to the globalization API. Yes there is a script written to handle most tasks, but its quite primitive (not to mention fears of automating 'too much'). Boredom is at all time high. Have tried all means of whittling away the time, and hence this question to other Slashdot users: What's the worst ever job you had to do in the name of 'software development' (or as a software developer)?"

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Personally, by Rhesus+Piece · 2004-03-31 09:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

All of my worst have been ill-concieved college projects assigned by TAs, particularly ones that have little to nothing to do with the course. Augh, now I'm having flash-backs to buggy Nachos stuff for an OS course.
Re:The worst job you can have by DaedalusLogic · 2004-03-31 11:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

OCD? Did you have to type this message two times just like me?
OCD? Did you have to type this message two times just like me?

Excuse me I have to go back to turning my lights off and on.
Excuse me I have to go back to turning my lights off and on.