I started a job as a developer on Monday for a large retail company. There was no computer available for me because of the IT department but I'm told it will arrive later in the day. It doesn't.
On Tuesday I get told that the PC is coming and later in the day a keyboard, mouse, monitor stand and two monitors arrive but no computer.
Today, Wednesday, I get into work and find that I now have a PC. Woo! I load windows, log into my user account with my new user and pass and go to install VSCode only to find that I don't have admin privileges and can't install almost anything. I'm told that IT will add me to the admin user group soon(tm). I wait. All day. They don't do what they are supposed to do despite us pushing them to do it.
I hope that tomorrow I can actually dev, but at least I've been paid three days wage for doing nothing lol

Anyone have any shitty IT department stories?

Realising that 12 year olds these days can code and build better than I do today.

When I was 12, I was content playing Pinball and chatting with strangers on yahoo messenger.

I'm 23 and shameless.

Lol, they just used the win10 logo as windows😂😂

😂😂😂 Hackerrank gives you an XKCD comic whenever you get a 404 on their site:

Just because you're special doesn't mean that you are useful!!

One day when I was about 8 years old my friend and I were in the library. We decided we wanted to try to make a baseball website because we both likes baseball (this was around 1998). We picked up a book on HTML and my dad took it out for us. My dad was also a programmer so he said he would help us learn. We went home that afternoon and made a little website!

I knew right then that I really enjoyed programming and creating things with code, but I realized I wanted to be a programmer in middle school and high school. One of my friends and I started building Flash games. To see if people were playing them, I added in a call to each game that hit a PHP script on our server. I'll never forget the days/weeks that one of our most popular games caused our sever to get hammered and our shared host said they were going to boot us.

It was an awesome feeling knowing people were enjoying these games that we worked really hard on, and that's one of the main reasons I always wanted to be coding/creating things that people enjoy using.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

Hahahaja!

First laugh then comment 😂😂😂

Rest in peace bro ..!

the joke XD

true story

When I say I'm a a software developer in public. :/

Return $response[
"Hey can you hack a Facebook account",
"Can you fix my wifi "] ;

Congratulate all 😋

Train your people...

That feeling of getting something to work in Linux after a thousand Google searches and trying a hundred commands

science,bitch!

For Indian Developers 😅

Maybe I need this keyboard

I'm starting to really like this place

If my rant gets -175, do I need to send @dfox & @trogus a stressball then?

so true ...

I went to Paris for my first interview (that was 1989) for a job of Unix kernel developer. All dressed up. I step out of the elevator and see a young punk with scruffy hair and different colour shoes. I reckon he must be the pizza delivery guy. I ask him "dude, can you please point me to the CEO's office for interview". He said "sure, follow me man, I'll show you". We arrive at a desk, he sat down in the big chair and looks at me with a big smile and says "Ok dude, here we are. I am the CEO. Now let's see how good you are!"
I got the job. And 26 years latet, last week, amazing coincidence: I met him again at a trade show in Paris ... with the same coloured shoes. How cool is that!!!

What the fuck am I doing...

When you laugh at a devRant post and the non-tech 50 year-old woman next to you finds out your good with computers. And then she asks you to delete her porn history... Awkward

When you can see the future

left one is me, right one is my friend when we talked about password security

I am 52. I think I am the oldest ranter. This deserves a sticker no doubt!

I relate to this too well

Just got this amazing gift for my newborn from the guys at work!