Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared
Meet Walter, a developer demoralized by recent layoffs and struggling with low morale at his workplace. As the company upgraded systems from Python 2 to Python 3, Walter encountered challenges with a section of systems that refused to cooperate. He jokingly attempted to solve the issue by creating a symbolic link between Python 2 and Python 3, which surprisingly worked.
This incident went unnoticed, but eight years later, Walter discovered a former colleague from the same company had finally implemented the link after it had moved from a script to Ansible.
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