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The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had?

Posted by Cliff on 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)?"

14 of 1,078 comments (clear)

  1. doing the goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    R.I.P

  2. Manual Conversion is the Worst by bcolflesh · · Score: -1, Troll

    Never temp for M$ - they had me convert all the Hotmail login routines to Commodore BASIC - then write a VBscript web interpreter.

  3. MOD PARENT 'TROLL' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MOD PARENT 'TROLL'
    MOD PARENT 'TROLL'
    MOD PARENT 'TROLL'

    Sorry to repeat myself, but I heard if you say it three times, it gets remembered.

  4. none. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    never had a development job, thank god. then i'd have to be an indian and smell like shit.

  5. Re:I wrote a virus for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    go back to your cell, Gigabyte

  6. parent Interesting? more like funny... by Daytona955i · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously... if you worked for 2 years straight fixing y2k bugs then I have one word to describe you... Sucker!

    Y2k was WAY over hyped. I mean you would have to be really retarted to believe that a plane would crash if it thought it was 1901. Sure, if some code wasn't fixed some bad things would happen but certainly not to the extent that people were predicting.

    I certainly would have written a program to do the work for me.

  7. Re:.com with aggresive transexual boss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    at least the boss warned you first... most of them just wait for you to turn around before they "fvck your asses".

  8. Re:Easy... by spacefrog · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmmmm

    You must be gay.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  9. Re:The worst job you can have by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about "Slashdot Karma Whore". You wouldn't know what that's like, would you Pingular?

  10. Re:Software? by Phexro · · Score: -1, Troll

    But only one out of thousands who has one in your mom.

  11. Re:.com with aggresive transexual boss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, dear. The Transgendered Slashbots and Other Karma Ladies of the Night Support Group meets every other Thursday, unless it's a weekday, in the gaming section.

  12. Re:.com with aggresive transexual boss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck off, fag. Nobody cares about the precise technical definition for your sick boy-buggering perversions!

  13. Re:.com with aggresive transexual boss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah! Who invited this flaming west-coast PC homo anyway?

  14. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot trolls you!

    Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!