[TRENCHES] Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - Kismet
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Lip Service
AnonymousA main character’s lips were not animated in the cut-scenes, and I was the first tester to notice. I logged the bug but, being relatively new, I asked my boss if I should log each cut-scene separately, or classify the whole thing as one bug. He told me to avoid cluttering the system and to just create one report.
With each new week came a new build, and with each new build, I was assigned to do bug regressions on this same cut-scene issue. Each time, I had to play through the entire game to check each cut-scene and ensure that the animations were done, each time logging any remaining issues under one bug report.
After about a month of this, I was called into HR. They tell me that I am being let go because I’m not logging as many bugs as my co-workers. After a moment of shock, I explained that this was because I was stuck working on one bug that took all week to check and pleaded for reason.
They fired me right there, once again citing my low numbers, but they were “nice” enough to let me gather my personal things and say a few goodbyes. After shaking my hand and sending me off with a few regretful words, my now-former boss turned to another tester and said, “Take over this bug and split it up into separate reports for each cut-scene.”
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like, seriously
someone call morgan spurlock or something
I'd settle for Michael Moore if he wasn't so polarising.
Maybe a Ken Burns style documentary with zooming photographs all over the place?
But if Cora was the saint she likes to think she is, she'd have owned up to the leak and resigned. But no, she let someone else take the fall for her actions.
They're all wankers.
Also, the fact that she has apparently actually hired Gwen casts serious doubt on her decision-making abilities in her new position.
We'll fly by day,
Moonlighting strangers
Who just met on the way
Who just met on the waaaaaaaaaaay
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
They really ought to get someone to do a documentary on these sorts of working conditions. I don't think michael moore would be good because he would just turn it into "and this is why communism is a good idea" type of deal(because that's what he does in nearly every docu I've seen of his, and he's allowed to, but this message is something the conservatives need to see too). Lisa Ling would work for this honestly, you could play it up too, pretend the cubicles are like shanty huts (because they can sometimes look like that during crunch time) in a 3rd world country.
More than likely, HR got the order to make cuts because the big cheese needed to fire someone to save on budget or whatever bullshit as they always do and this was just a good reason to latch onto as to avoid paying him compensation (because they are indeed inhuman dicks) and to get around his boss to do it.
His direct manager simply had the sense to realize that in order to save his team from getting further cuts (which no manager likes) he has to generate more bugs for whatever employee he assigned this problem to.
He can't goto HR and say "I told him to do it" because then he'll also be on the crosshair and they'll just come up with some other reason.
Team Managers know that whenever HR/upper management decide something, you roll with it or you get steamrolled under it.
Making only one bug for the whole thing is not recommended. You essentially make duplicates, for what looks like the same problem, and let the Dev team bitch and moan because they can't fix their shit. Or have the PM (or whatever other gatekeeper) mark them all as duplicates and close it.
As for the story, at least the boss was kind enough to tell the next employee what to do so he doesn't get fired like the other guy.
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I thought of exactly the same thing.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
Because she has a big stick up her ass?
Ahhhh that takes me back .................
Well gosh, I suppose I might as well settle in for a nice cuppa ...... this is gonna be good!
at this point i just want them all to die
i will donate 1000 dollars to child's play if this strip ends next week with all the characters being dragged into the woods and shot in the head
That's why I said a stick...