Ms. ArmoredThirteen

How do you know?

Straight up I was told to push a breaking change today because it “didn’t break that much” and “we can put in tickets to fix the issues”. I’m so checked out of this job I just raised my eyebrows and rolled with it. I’ve got a paper trail not my fault lol

I’ve never seen such a majestic creature

I code using punch cards hand cutting each hole with a xacto knife

This is why even if I think something is 100% legit, if a place calls me asking for anything I tell them I have to check on it and call back. Then I’ll call their known public number and go through that way. I’ve avoided a couple scam situations like this

I used to work for a university trying to modernize how people got student and financial data. Over half my work was playing politics rooting out people who refused to change and going above their head. We had one guy who didn’t want to update a script on his end to include the bare minimum amount of ‘security’: a hard coded plain text password. It took me months and I had to go to his office to update his script and he complained about it the entire four minutes it took