> Who in the right mind thought that would be a good idea?
Someone who doesn’t care or know or care to know. If the company (or manager in some cases) doesn’t treat people right they may not do anything above the bare minimum to survive.
So the next time a problem comes up, e.g. the old password field in the database only holds 8 characters but someone sent a memo around requiring users to provide passwords of a certain length, they might just truncate the input - problem solved, now back to lunch. Or if they would have to argue or fill in a form for a new database, they might just not do it. It could even be that they have incentive for this, e.g., easier to get raise if they don’t ask for new task related things all the time.
Whenever something stupid happens I’m reminded of the movie Office Space, this happens even at FAANGs.
Someone who doesn’t care or know or care to know. If the company (or manager in some cases) doesn’t treat people right they may not do anything above the bare minimum to survive.
So the next time a problem comes up, e.g. the old password field in the database only holds 8 characters but someone sent a memo around requiring users to provide passwords of a certain length, they might just truncate the input - problem solved, now back to lunch. Or if they would have to argue or fill in a form for a new database, they might just not do it. It could even be that they have incentive for this, e.g., easier to get raise if they don’t ask for new task related things all the time.
Whenever something stupid happens I’m reminded of the movie Office Space, this happens even at FAANGs.