Comments by "muh diversity" (@muhdiversity7409) on "900 Wrongful Convictions in British Post Office Scandal" video.

As a Brit watching from the colonies, the UK makes me sadder and sadder by the day. Some people ghosted themselves over this. While the people in charge got recognition and awards. I believe one of them got a knighthood.
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@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Its a joke.
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Hey, at least a woman was running the joint. Almost as awesome as the BBC.
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@SayAhh One of my favorites was a colleague who was notorious for believing he was infallible and would make changes and not test them but push the changes to production. I get into the office around 7am and I'm looking at the production logs and there's activity that's not making sense. A couple minutes later my phone rings and its the production support team saying the New York stock exchange called to ask whether our orders were valid. I twigged and looked closer and every second since 6:30am when the software started it would generate and send massive unsolicited orders for Google stock. Guess what saved us? It was prior to the market opening and NYSE was rejecting the orders. If this happened during the day it would have been in the billions and on the news. I have other stories but maybe for another day.
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@climber950 importing more fighting age men from countries that hate their country.
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@calebfielding6352 How stupid and ignorant the programmers are. I've worked in finance software for 20+ years, unfortunately, and some of the horrors I've seen by really stupid people/programmers that are getting paid handsomely would make you shudder. Add AI to the mix and its just going to be a massive shit show.
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@LemonChick She needs to hand back the almost 3 million pounds in bonuses too. What a travesty. To hear they lied to cover their tracks they should all be in jail.
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@angelachouinard4581 You've hit on the reason I've decided to retire. Every job that I've applied to recently requires you to do a test against the clock. Even though I know how to solve the problems part of me just says this isn't the sort of environment I want to work in and exit the test before the timer is up. I wish you and everyone luck in the high speed dystopia to come. It's just a race to the bottom.
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@Nick-zp8wk Oh man. I haven't been back in over 6 years. The last time I was in Europe was Germany in 2019. Even my friends in London keep telling me not to come "home".
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@Gabby-bot Can you imagine being accused of stealing millions by a large bank and you have nothing except their records to defend yourself? At least with physical cash you'd need to walk into the bank to steal. I can guarantee you any bank will have 100's more lawyers that cost them nothing than you'll be able to afford.
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@LemonChick Thanks.
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In the US across the biggest investment banks QA/Final acceptance is a thing of the past. These clowns believe that unit and automated tests will find the problems. Guess who gets to write all those test? The very same programmers that wrote the code in the first place. In so many ways I'm glad I'm out. This is what happens when you put non technical talkers and those that claim never ending victim hood in charge.
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@angelachouinard4581 That "club" gets worse and worse by the year
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@glee21012 Bad managers (non developers) are promoted. Once they're in those positions they start to question why the good programmers get paid so much. Along come DEI programs and they have the weapon they need to cut costs without scrutiny while looking like good little boys and girls. Before someone accuses me of racism, I'm black, and I know and have seen what it's like to be on the receiving end of that virtuous movement. It doesn't matter how good your work is. Before I left my last job they had eliminated all the QA positions leaving it to the developers that write the code to test. That is actually against the rules but when they're doing it it's all good, a trope we see more and more of these days.
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