I can go on for days with specific examples about the half arsed software programming we are inundated with. But let me give just one example and a couple of conclusions preceding:
#1 They write software riddled with "bugs" and "glitches", Then they cause even more problems "fixing" their bugs and glitches that is the result of the mistakes that they've gotten the public to accept as inadvertent "bugs" & "glitches" as if acts of God and not a result of their incompetence, you know, like it is for VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER job and profession except prostitution.
#1 They write software riddled with "bugs" and "glitches", Then they cause even more problems "fixing" their bugs and glitches that is the result of the mistakes that they've gotten the public to accept as inadvertent "bugs" & "glitches" as if acts of God and not a result of their incompetence, you know, like it is for VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER job and profession except prostitution.
And then AND THEN, THEN THEY GET PAID TO FIX THE "GLITCHES" they put in the software just prior to introducing EVEN MORE! In my normal job, SOMEBODY ELSE gets paid to fix my F-ups while I am sent down the road.
#3 but that's not the end of it. They get to self justify, perpetuate their jobs effing sh** up by making "new and improved" versions of the software. Eventually, doing so spells the demise of the software because it doesn't even actually work anymore.
On websites, like Ebay, for example this never ending quest for the "new and imp-roved" webpage interfaces results in situations such as a 21 year member in a rush to print a label for a sale before leaving for work in the morning having to stop and figure out the totally new interface and/or the new interface not even working or old ones not working for the first time.
I have suffered both phenomenon in software utilities and web sites many times in over over the years and it all comes sown to one thing: Software programming is the only professionals besides prostitutes and doctors allowed to continually f-up and not only still get paid, but keep their jobs and Only prostitutes, who's job it often is to literally F-up even might face arrest prosecution.
Well, actually , In America, there is another group of professions, in which one can not only f-Up royally and still get handsomely rewarded, but actually plan purposeful do grievous harm up to and including MURDER and get away with it: being upper management of a large corporation.
AINT THAT RIGHT GM!
Can we get a big "Huzzah" from PG&E execs, none of which faced ANY penalties when PG&E was found feloniously responsible for the deaths of over 80 people in wildfires that wiped out entire towns.
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