It's only a clever hack if you're the one who wrote it

Weird requirements aside, it's also never a clever hack to hardcode IP addresses and network shares into your undocumented code that never saw a repo and was written so long ago that the source you found on some rando's PC which may or may not be what's running in prod doesn't even compile anymore because its dependencies reference third party libraries that don't exist anymore.

Apart from that, not long ago we hired a fresh CS grad for some automation stuff and apparently now days error handling and logging is no longer in the curriculum (I don't know what colleges do, I'm self-teaching). He went work for some space agency that starts with an N and now we have an application in production that doesn't say what's wrong when it fails. Not even a log of the stack trace.

When I get time I guess I'll have to rewrite it. I just don't have enough time because I'm the fucking sysadmin...

Anyway, I'll go back to my servers now. Sorry for the outburst. It just weighs on me even though deep inside I understand it's actually the company's fault.

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