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[–] [email protected] 143 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I remember when I was working with .NET and I saw some web service code and I saw there was no try catches. They didn't have a global catch in the asax either or anything. I just wrapped each call into a try catch and log.

I got the same treatment where my manager wanted to know what happened with the increase in errors. I told him what I did. My manager got another developer to go through my commits regardless. I was a bit upset at the lack of trust.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A manager that can't read a simple try catch commit? Why am I surprised.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

they shouldn't have to do that. the commit log tells the manager who to go ask.

and since the developer did that to be a big swinging dick instead of bringing it up to the team in a meeting as a problem to address together the manager didn't trust them.

makes sense to people that have to manage other humans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

This is a massive assumption from the story that was provided. We don't know that they didn't discuss with the team and an explanation of "I added a log to errors that were already happening" shouldn't result in lack of trust from the manager.

Reactive managers like that are a big problem in the industry.

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