Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

Originally Posted by tseres

this is kind of a funny thing. you see, on our team, everything is the programmers fault, no matter what. it's the way it is. i'm the programmer. we had the robot ready to test, and we powered it on, at which point it flew straight into a heavy table. it was "my fault". turns out another guy was getting ready to go and accidentally buy his backpack on the xbox controller

You see FIRST really does prepare you for a professional career in programming. I've been a systems programmer for 20 years and every time something goes wrong its my fault. Then I spend a week proving its not...And even though its a hardware problem I am expected to write code to fix it. Thats because software is free, you can't touch it or see it. When I come into work no says 'good morning', they say 'you have a software problem.'

But the load of money they give me makes up for it.

Just imagine what its like to be a programmer on my teams.

BC
Programming Mentor
Team 1675, 1714