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[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago

How were you supposed to test your software if you weren't allowed to create an executable?

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

insert thats the neat part meme

Eventually it was decided I would write Javascript on a web page I made. Skills I never declaired having I told them I was a java dev.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

Javascript is a part of Java, duh!

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

I literally had the "Java is to javascript as car is to carpet" conversation with my dickhead boss. He didn't get it and I had to explain to him that you don't drive a carpet to work.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe your boss was from the middle east and didn't understand your point...

[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

So they essentially hired you for no reason and then had to come up with something for you to do?

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I really don't understand why they hired me. It was a contract role and they ended it early once they ran out of things for me to do. Last day I drove home laughing the way home I was so fucking happy to leave that place.

They really sucked afterwards though since they wouldn't even say if I worked there or not while I was job hunting, so I spent the next few months unemployeed.

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

It's more common than you think.

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