> Our company had been bought by an investment firm, and they wanted their pound of flesh. All projects deadlines were moved up, and at one time we were testing 3 products in parallel, all with different requirements.
What are you supposed to do in such a situation? Jump ship? Or attempt to provide pushback against unreasonable practices and deadlines (which may either be listened to, or just get you fired), or simply ignore the deadlines altogether because they're made up and follow the best practices anyways? To me, it feels like there are no good options if you plan on staying at a company like that.
> I could have tested it better, but that would have meant working late into the night. No thanks. I had already worked a few late nights/weekends and I was done.
Regardless, it feels like you should put your health first, always. So, in a situation like that, consider the potential risks of what could happen due to badly written code, how likely those are to occur if you don't double check your work and if it feels like it's a good idea to check it but you don't have the time, just do it the next day. Of course, this may or may not play into the best practices and getting fired bits above.
On an unrelated note:
> b) Some project managers and Important sales managers had also been doing the same thing – making up phone numbers and locking real phones. Of course, they were doing it manually so only locked 3-4 phones, while we locked 10,000, but the final effect was the same. We were all pissing in the pool. Everyone pretended it was an honest mistake. Lol, look how silly we are. Not a big deal, live and learn ole chap, live and learn. Except for the poor sod in Peru who couldn't make phone calls or post duck-face pictures to Instagram, but no one asked him.
This feels illegal. It probably should be illegal. Is it?
