Any crazy request or something that stressed you in a way that you wanted to quit?
Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
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Re: Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
#2I've been setting up massively complicated sending rules for a webshop in health care products so that it selects the correct carrier for the products in a client's cart. This webshop has own stock, but also does drop shipping and depending on what products are in the cart, different carriers should be selected during checkout. Then they also have discounts / free shipping for some products, but not for all, and some products can be paid in 3 terms, but not all, and some products can be selected for saturday shipping and/or next day shipping - but of course, not all.
So if a client adds a product to the cart and selects Saturday delivery, the shipping costs change but only for that particular product in the cart because drop shipped products can't be delivered on Saturday. So this requires a bunch of custom notifications to inform the client about this, custom calculations of shipping costs and a lot of if/else crap to figure out what carrier to select. I hate it, it's so complicated.
Anyway I emailed the client about this and that I needed a bit more time to set this up because it was very complicated. Her reply?
"Maybe it's best if you just enter the shipping rules again if the current ones are too complicated for you to understand."
I wanted to throw my fucking computer out the window and become a surfing board vendor on a beach in Cook Islands. Fucking hell I spent HOURS on that and she has absolutely no idea how complicated this all is. I HATE THAT WOMAN and she makes my job absolutely miserable to do.
Re: Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
#3I've been setting up massively complicated sending rules for a webshop in health care products so that it selects the correct carrier for the products in a client's cart. This webshop has own stock, but also does drop shipping and depending on what products are in the cart, different carriers should be selected during checkout. Then they also have discounts / free shipping for some products, but not for all, and some…
Show her the code and tell her to do it if she knows better.
Re: Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
#4I've been setting up massively complicated sending rules for a webshop in health care products so that it selects the correct carrier for the products in a client's cart. This webshop has own stock, but also does drop shipping and depending on what products are in the cart, different carriers should be selected during checkout. Then they also have discounts / free shipping for some products, but not for all, and some…
Show her the code and tell her to do it if she knows better.
I actually should.
Re: Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
#5General lack of competence/direction. We spent over half a year building something with no users being allowed to use it, and, unsurprisingly, it did not do what it was supposed to. Product org's idea? Let's do it again, without talking to the users until 6 months later. The entire dev team bailed within a month. The PM still works there, 5 years later.
Re: Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
#6I've been setting up massively complicated sending rules for a webshop in health care products so that it selects the correct carrier for the products in a client's cart. This webshop has own stock, but also does drop shipping and depending on what products are in the cart, different carriers should be selected during checkout. Then they also have discounts / free shipping for some products, but not for all, and some…
> become a surfing board vendor on a beach in Cook Islands
Speaks to my soul. There’s still time friend.
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#8Spent six months rebuilding data infrastructure for a product team. The team got canned the following month.
Re: Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
#9I've been setting up massively complicated sending rules for a webshop in health care products so that it selects the correct carrier for the products in a client's cart. This webshop has own stock, but also does drop shipping and depending on what products are in the cart, different carriers should be selected during checkout. Then they also have discounts / free shipping for some products, but not for all, and some…
> become a surfing board vendor on a beach in Cook Islands Speaks to my soul. There’s still time friend.
You're right - and since I'm 40 now there's not a lot. I need to change my life up before I'm 60 and it's all too late.
Re: Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
#10A few coworkers on my team were clearly clinically depressed.