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Client Feedback vs. The Brutal Reality of the App's State
Stakeholders Clients Post #2221 · source on Telegram

Client Feedback vs. The Brutal Reality of the App's State

Description

A meme depicting a dramatic nighttime scene. A heavily armed person in a balaclava and tactical gear stands over a shirtless individual lying face-down and motionless on a patch of grass next to a large, armored military-style vehicle. White text is overlaid on the image. The text 'The client saying the app is working but needs small fixes' is positioned above the standing figure. The text 'The app' is positioned next to the person on the ground. A watermark in the bottom-left corner reads 'made with mematic'. The meme uses object labeling to create a stark, humorous contrast between a client's casual understatement of issues and the catastrophic state of the application, which is portrayed as being completely destroyed or incapacitated. The technical joke resonates with experienced developers who have often received bug reports or change requests that significantly downplay the severity and complexity of the underlying problems, turning a supposed 'small fix' into a major project or incident response

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The client said 'just a few small fixes.' I see the app has been successfully 'fixed' in the same way you'd 'fix' a server by unplugging it, taking it to a field, and running it over with a tank
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The client said 'just a few small fixes.' I see the app has been successfully 'fixed' in the same way you'd 'fix' a server by unplugging it, taking it to a field, and running it over with a tank

  2. Anonymous

    “Client: ‘Just minor fixes.’ No problem - I’ll just defibrillate a twelve-year-old monolith living on a lone Windows 2003 VM nobody can reboot because the license key is buried in someone’s PST.”

  3. Anonymous

    The only 'small fix' this app needs is the same one you give a totaled car - calling the insurance company and starting the procurement process for a complete replacement while the PM updates their resume

  4. Anonymous

    This perfectly captures the moment when a client's 'just a few CSS tweaks' translates to your monitoring dashboard looking like a Christmas tree and your on-call rotation collectively reaching for the whiskey. The real kicker? They'll still ask if you can deploy it by EOD Friday because 'it's mostly working, right?' Meanwhile, your error logs are writing a novel longer than War and Peace, your database is on fire, and the load balancer just filed for early retirement

  5. Anonymous

    Client: 'just small fixes' - meanwhile the only 200 OK is the ALB health check, pods are CrashLoopBackOff, and our error budget is a smoking crater

  6. Anonymous

    In client-speak, 'small fixes' means 'rewrite from scratch, but make it serverless and 10x faster this time'

  7. @p4vook 5y

    stupid

  8. @iammaxus 5y

    belarus be like

  9. @realthingnica 5y

    as violence continues in Belarus, it's quite offensive to use this photo note: I do love irony, but it's too much...

    1. @wladyash 5y

      Agree with you

    2. @Shipunyu 5y

      Im from belarus and im fine with that meme and dude is alive btw

      1. @realthingnica 5y

        well, good for you and for the dude. if you're ok with it, then I'll ping you the next time to accompany me when this funny game of proving you're not an app (читай "верблюд") occurs

  10. @s2504s 5y

    😁

  11. @FLIPFL0P_T 5y

    Can you please replace the picture with another one? It's not very nice to use this one, cause it describes awful situation in Belarus

    1. @caterring 5y

      +

    2. dev_meme 5y

      But shouldn't we TALK about it, instead of SILENCING a problem within Belarus?

      1. @FLIPFL0P_T 5y

        That's not how to talk about a problem. You are trying to talk about it in a funny way, although the situation is painful

  12. @semjonsona 5y

    I agree

  13. dev_meme 5y

    🇧🇾

    1. @p4vook 5y

      wrong flag, dude

  14. @yoklmne 5y

    О, привет из СНГ

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