The Daily WTF

You do not need formal training from a compsci program or similar before you’re allowed to be a developer. But sometimes, when your job role already contains “engineer” in the title, people think you can handle any engineering task. As we continue our review of the best of 2020, here’s a tale of misapplied human resources. Original —Remy

Bruce worked for a small engineering consultant firm providing custom software solutions for companies in the industrial sector. His project for CompanyX involved data consolidation for a new oil well monitoring system. It was a two-phased approach: Phase 1 was to get the raw instrument data into the cloud, and Phase 2 was to aggregate that data into a useful format.

Phase 1 was completed successfully. When it came time to write the business logic for aggregating the data, CompanyX politely informed Bruce’s team that their new in-house software

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