Developers should know to ask questions when a weird request is made.
Developers presumably know how to think and have a vague idea of what the business does to know that a ask to futz with internal financials programmatically is fucking wierd.
Developers presumably know how to think and have a vague idea of what the business does to know that a ask to futz with internal financials programmatically is fucking wierd.
Also got reprimanded for disobeying an order at once; my boss — same one as above — would not take "no, we are in a regulated industry, and I cannot do that" for an answer. I ended up going behind his back, getting the approvals he should have gotten himself, and once I'd secured those, granted him the access he wanted. I also tried to escalate to his boss (my grand-boss) … but he didn't respond until it was all moot.
But there is a lot of stress when you're fearing for your job, even though you're just trying to do things by the book. I'm inclined to side with engineers, to a degree: the chain of command's responsibility is to never put eng in that position. (Although here, the eng in question seems far higher up than I am. I'm just a bottom rung eng…)
> Developers presumably know how to think and have a vague idea of what the business does to know that a ask to futz with internal financials programmatically is fucking wierd.
They should but IME they often don't, and even if they do, people are lazy. It's a struggle to get people to do the things they should do some days.
There are no regulations as to who can develop what software as far as I know. Whereas there are for who can design a bridge, act as your lawyer, or prescribe you medicine.
“Software engineer” is just a synonym for “programmer”, in the actually existing practice of the English language.
Call yourself whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you get to define what 'Engineers' are and what ethics they are bound to. Just because you use the term in your title and say it is used properly in English, doesn't mean that you won't get treated any different than someone with a PhD demanding to be called Doctor and pretending there is no difference between them an and M.D.
My impression is that this title comes from the practice of "software engineering", not necessarily that the practitioners are licensed Engineers.
I said I wouldn't do it unless they showed me the legal advise saying that it was ok. The office sycophant piped up and said "I'll do it". From then on I stopped being invited to meetings and my job transitioned into answering the phone and then out the door.
I hope they jail the developers for 500 years, that's the sort of signal that needs to be sent.