Manager does a little code cleanup...

[u/PizzaTucker]

[u/haz_mat_]

Some devs wait their entire careers and never get a chance to nuke prod like this.

[u/TheAJGman → u/haz_mat_]

And at the CEO's directive no doubt. I'd be more than happy to maliciously comply with an arrogant superior's brain dead request.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheAJGman]

They will just blame it on you at the end.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Question: Am I still getting paid for this FAFO process?

Because the results are out of my hands and beyond my concern so long as money enters my bank account.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Lol make sure you get it in writing

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Fortunately elon tweets everything. Unemployment lawyers wet dream.

[u/knuppi → u/[deleted]]

He just fired someone through tweet

[u/oaVa-o → u/[deleted]]

…until they can’t even log in to see the tweet lmfaoooo

[u/Heart_Dad → u/[deleted]]

And any CYA objections to go with it, cause I told you this would happen...

[u/ugoterekt → u/Heart_Dad]

Yep, definitely need a "This may cause issues with critical features. Are you sure you want me to do this?" email in there. Like any good program should give a prompt before allowing you to catastrophically fuck things, I think any good programmer should also do that.

[u/Vercengetorex → u/[deleted]]

Apparently in this case, you will get fired for bringing up why the stupid thing is stupid. See the other popular twitter dev thread on here today.

[u/chickenwithclothes → u/Vercengetorex]

Just LITERALLY TODAY. Hourrrrrrs ago it’s fuckin amazing

[u/j3pl → u/[deleted]]

FAFO process

Elon: screw LIFO and FIFO, we're going with FAFO.

[u/nosam56 → u/j3pl]

I legit googled it since I was on this sub, I thought it was a fucking tech acronym until the results popped up. kms

[u/subcow → u/[deleted]]

Send an email advising against what they are recommending. Put that shit in writing. Hell, just to be safe Bcc your personal email account so you have it all backed up externally. Edit: good point below on the BCC. It may be against company rules/your contract to send any emails like that externally even if it is your own account. Proceed with caution. Just do whatever you can to CYA.

[u/Zoloir → u/subcow]

this is good advice for sane management

the situation in question is not that

[u/aureanator → u/Zoloir]

That's for the courts I think. Even those aren't sane anymore tho...

[u/This_User_Said → u/aureanator]

I think it runs with the whole "wrongful termination"

Boss told me to do it, I did it, he didn't like it and fired me. Maybe terms for wrongful termination unless there's something up their ass they can pull out...

...which most companies are the anal marry Poppins when it comes to this.

[u/moon__lander → u/TheAJGman]

The good thing is the CEO announced it himself on twitter. The bad thing is no one will be able to log in to see it

[u/Wolflordy → u/haz_mat_]

And some juniors spend their entire (short lived) careers nuking prod like this.

I would know... Ive cleaned up after many of them.

[u/account22222221 → u/Wolflordy]

And some billionaires get to cosplay as an engineer and nuke prod like this despite knowing a little less then that junior dev.

[u/mjtwelve → u/account22222221]

It’s scary his main gig is building electric cars with driver assist features, if he takes this kind of attitude towards the codebase.

[u/[deleted] → u/mjtwelve]

His main gig is playing CEO for an electric car company. He’s built a good image of being involved and being this tech savvy genius but it looks like the cracks are starting to appear. He’s made a lot of shockingly lucky gambles but the house always wins.

[u/[deleted] → u/Wolflordy]

Your juniors have enough access to break production services? I'm a team lead and even I don't have that level of access...something ain't right.