I am a programmer - cryptographer with 14 years of experience. I have always solved the most difficult problems that no one had solved before me. If anyone knows what BCH codes are, I say hello to them all!
I was lucky with directors.
Once I worked in the 90s not so long in one of the IT companies in Moscow, it sold components from the USA, Singapore, etc.
My director graduated from the cybernetics department in Moscow, I was older than me, but I was more ambitious, because I also had a specialized university and a lot of work experience behind me.
But how wrong I was! I was not embarrassed even by the fact that the entire network of his companies worked on ACCESS, on which the director himself and his brother wrote an accounting program in which you could do everything - issue invoices, make payments, balance sheets, etc. It was a real accounting system that worked between 5 cities in a distributed mode. My job was also to monitor the integrity of the database, fix bugs and archive the database.
Now to business. I'm sitting in my office, it's summer, my feet are on the table, everything is fine, the director calls me and says, pointing at the screen: do you see the price chart on the Taiwanese exchange for memory sticks for 3 years? I see it, I say.
In short, you're pretending to be a cool programmer, come on, get me data from this site for 10-15 years ago! I immediately tried the selected options, I answer - there's only three years, you can't get more! It's impossible! Go to your office, think about it, maybe it will work. I came, sat down at the computer, started studying the site code, didn't see anything suspicious and gave up on this task.
The boss calls the next day and asks: well, did you manage? I answer - it's impossible, the data is only for three years.
He calls me to his computer and my eyes pop out of my head: I see a chart for 15 years! I was shocked. I didn't ask how he did it, but he says, in what form should I dump all this for tabulation? I answer, already quietly - in any form! I quickly wrote a database based on the data from the computer. The director was doing price forecasting based on this data. I was disgraced. It was a fiasco.
These are the kind of directors they trained in the 80s at the cybernetics department of Moscow State University in Moscow!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
