Forgotten Employee (2002)

Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by jiggliemon on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:11PM (#33264283)

Does anyone have the “Bob code” story? Where some guy renamed PHP to BOB and proceeded to pretend that he was unfirable with much success?

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by mkehrt on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:41PM (#33264693)

I'm pretty sure it's on the Daily WTF, FWIW.

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by kragen on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:41PM (#33265462)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/We-Use-BobX

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by deanmen on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:49PM (#33265584)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/We-Use-bobX

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by xivzgrev on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:15PM (#33266632)

Brian sounds like the drag on the company, not Bob.

Bob is simply offering a deal that is in his best interests. Brian is the enabler, and I'm surprised HE wasn't fired.

Developers are expensive to recruit and train. If your department keeps losing them, because of the environment, then maybe you need a different environment.

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by cmeacham98 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:56PM (#33268878)

Bob isn't just "offering a deal", he abused his position to try to get an employee fired and is blackmailing the company to force them to stay with BobX.

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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by Georgelemental on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:15PM (#33265903)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/We-Use-BobX

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