HAPPY Friday!!!
As I am here, dreaming about my first DEV job, I felt like asking you:
What's something funny that you did or happened to you about your first job?
-Maybe something that wasn't that funny at the time but now when you look back you can't help but laugh.
-Or maybe something about the interview that closed the deal.
-Or whatever comes to mind.
Give me some inspirational laughs people.!
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I was a Psychology student and was looking for a summer job...
I wandered by the college job board and saw they were looking for a second year CS student...
I told myself "I can program, I know some basic Turbo Pascal" so I applied for the job...
I was the ONLY one to apply so I got the job!
Never went back to Psychology after that.
Switched degrees and 30 years later I am still happily coding away :)
My first job was with a business who's whole model was based on referrals. The app I was working on was for reps to submit their referrals.
As you can imagine, the main table in the database was the referrals table. It had almost a million rows and every other table had a referral ID column to join it.
The table was spelled
referalls.What's worse, it was such an old legacy app, it was written before ORMs were popular, so all the DB queries were in the actual code, so references to the table were EVERYWHERE!
There was also no uniform way to spell the Referral ID columns. Some tables had them as
referral_idand others asreferall_id.It was a mess!
Lol lol lol
That's the funny one! I won't tell you the scary one about how they stored their passwords in plaintext. And how despite me issuing a number of fixes, they still didn't fix it as of the day I left 10 months later...
Wait what??? That IS scary o.o
I had no idea about React, I've been studying it for 1 month non stop, and then, first day my boss asked me if I could program in python, scraping porn.
FML hahah, anyway I really learned a lot.
Lol lol lol
Seriously, I guess we never stopped learning 😂🤷
i got fired because they calculated how long we had been married after i said im having a son. They came to the conclusion that we had sex before marriage
Wait... Whaaaaaaaaat
? Lol I am half laughing half crying here
real story
All I remember is my old boss playing entire experimental jazz albums at very high volume, poking the ire of nearby offices, and adding “challenge” to work.
Lol How were you supposed to concentrate at all? Lol
First professional website gig, sales guy wants to know what to do next for his client.
"We need pictures," I told him.
"How should I send those?"
"Just put some pictures into a folder and send it to me."
A couple of days later I got a manila folder full of catalog cut out pictures that all fell out when I opened the envelope. Not what I expected, but I'm pretty sure that site got done eventually.
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH omg this is soo funny
I completed my higher diploma in software engineering course in 1996 and landed a data entry job in a forex investment company, taking calls for stock quotes.
Duh!!! Then I quit after a month to get out of the cell.
And yet, I am learning Dev!!!
Hope you find a better job after !!!
In the first place I worked, there was a nice coffee table which, except coffee, also had something like Nesquik cocoa powder. I loved it and used to drink it instead of coffee when thinking.
Once I was sitting at my place behind an amazing huge new white 19” LCD screen (long ago it was), made a good sip of this great cocoa drink, but - it went into a wrong place. After few minutes I still could not stop coughing, partially because my place looked gorgeous now, and laugh was going out of me uncontrollably. Everything around, including the beautiful new monitor, was covered in this magic drink.
Drops were still there even when I left the company about a year later: nor me this day, not even the cleaner were able to wipe them.
Wow lol what a drink lol
My first dev job wasn't even a dev job. I was a hobby programmer since aged 11, and I got a job in a computer centre in my mid-20's. With 3 other folk we were looking after the mainframes, networks & installing these new fangled PC things ;) The boss was discussing a new software they were looking to purchase & I said we could do it in the department. One of my colleagues was also a keen programmer. My boss pitched it to his boss and, well, we ended up writing it :-)
That is Soo cool!!!
A great first not dev dev job lol
We used outlook tasks, and the company owner would create tasks and assign them to his employees every morning. One day my tasks were:
I moved on fairly rapidly.
What? Lol
Did he even known why he hired you?
Glad you moved in quickly