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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 18:21

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On 2018-05-16, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
<headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hell is being brought in as a contractor to take over the
> company's only product when its author has left to pursue
> his career elsewhere and proved to be a probably-underpaid
> engineer but a grossly-overpaid self-taught junior programmer
> who produced several pages of completely undocumented code
> with a mixture of structured programming and go-to-labels
> all intertwined with no indenting.
>
> BTDTWTTS.

Another variation is being brought in to maintain code which
was written 10 years ago by someone who is now the department
head and who hasn't written code in years.  The real hell
happens when said department head finds out what you've done
to his precious spaghetti.

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