- Sep 19, 2000
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At my job, submitting code to a certain part of the tree requires a two step process, you submit the code changes for review, then you submit the code changes to the maintainers of that section to properly submit things.
My coworker screwed things up in an epic way, one I didn't even know was possible. Somehow when completing part two, he managed to somehow submit the file changes to the wrong file! So for example, if you files a and b in the directory, he made changes to file a and then submitted it so that file a would replace file be so the directory had a file a and the changed file a in the directory.
Needless to say, this cause a bit of grief, but was no big issue. It was backed out and everything turned out fine.
Later, this coworker sends out a mass email to everyone "blah blah blah, everything is fixed now, I guess I could be more careful in the future, however My reviewers (from step one) really should have caught and prevented this."
I've also been hearing him scathingly talk about how stupid his reviewers (which I'm a part of) are throughout the day.
I shot him an email, pointed out to him that "Hey, if you actually LOOK at the review page, you will notice that, yes indeady, you did things right there and there was NO way for the reviewers to catch your mistake" in the nicest fashion possible.
Damn it people, fess up (or keep quiet, which ever works for you) when you screw up. Don't go blaming everyone else for your stupid mistakes.
My coworker screwed things up in an epic way, one I didn't even know was possible. Somehow when completing part two, he managed to somehow submit the file changes to the wrong file! So for example, if you files a and b in the directory, he made changes to file a and then submitted it so that file a would replace file be so the directory had a file a and the changed file a in the directory.
Needless to say, this cause a bit of grief, but was no big issue. It was backed out and everything turned out fine.
Later, this coworker sends out a mass email to everyone "blah blah blah, everything is fixed now, I guess I could be more careful in the future, however My reviewers (from step one) really should have caught and prevented this."
I've also been hearing him scathingly talk about how stupid his reviewers (which I'm a part of) are throughout the day.
I shot him an email, pointed out to him that "Hey, if you actually LOOK at the review page, you will notice that, yes indeady, you did things right there and there was NO way for the reviewers to catch your mistake" in the nicest fashion possible.
Damn it people, fess up (or keep quiet, which ever works for you) when you screw up. Don't go blaming everyone else for your stupid mistakes.
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