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    [–] sp3tr4l 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Similar stuff has happened to me.

    Here's a rough template of an input questionaire in MSFT Forms, its not actually ready yet as we haven't set up the actual place the inputs will be recorded, nor set up a way to mirror it into our actual database that our entire intranet uses.

    Come back after the weekend, dummy questionaire has replaced the front end of our old system, meaning we've just functionally not logged about 72 hours of requests for assistance from the homeless, during a blizzard, and COVID.

    After this, our webmaster / marketing director, this woman who earns a quarter mil a year... straight up told me, in an email, she does not actually read anything I write in my emails to her that requires scrolling.

    She's very busy, you see.

    When she asked me, unprompted, in an in person meeting, if I could 'implement the blockchain' in our (PostGres, not that she knows what that is) database, for 'security benefits', I wanted to strangle her to death, but settled on collapsing my head into my hands, then looking up and saying no, that would make everything extremely inefficient and make it much more insecure.

    She says, oh really, are you sure about that?

    Yes.

    Ok then well I guess that wraps up this meeting (shit eating grin) keep up the good work!

    ... I no longer work in the tech industry.