1 On 1 meeting with Marketing:
Marketing: We have two pain points. One is server keep crashing everytime we put new update and we have game miner, who keep leaking future update. Should do something about it ?
CEO: Game crashing, I already put our Engineer job on the line, they will take care of it.
Marketing: But if we kick our engineers out of the window, who gonna work on it ??
These days, it's very hard to find workers, you read the news, right ?
CEO: Good point, it just a bluff, don't tell anybody. I will probably just cut his bonus.
Marketing: Fiuhh, how about game miner ? Everytime we release patch, future content is included so they easily find it out.
CEO: I got your point, but there's cost we have to pay everytime we release update plus risk of another crash. It's tricky balance.
Marketing: Understood, don't tell anybody, I actually like they leaking it, since we lack of LTM, future leakage keep them interesting and looking forward.
CEO: Agree, anything else ?
Marketing: People * off when the server crash, they lost RP. I think we should address this.
CEO: You're right, we need our engineer to fix it, let me follow up with them.
Marketing: Thank you boss. That's it for me.
CEO: Servers are down again boys ☹️
Engineer: We're checking....
CEO: Make sure you won't sleep until this resolve.
Engineer: Sure boss, I just need to bring my kid to sleep and I will work on this after get resolved.
Engineer's wife: Honey.....it's getting late, time to sleep !
Engineer: Sorry honey, my boss is on the line, he won't let me go.
Engineer's wife: How about me ? I can let you go.
Engineer: Oh MY GOD, my boss threathen to fire me, my wife threaten to divorce me ! ☹️
ARGGGHHHHHH !!!
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To be continue
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Cafetaria in the office :
Marketing: Morning...you look so sleepy and depressed, what happened ?
Engineer: I want to suicide, our boss threaten to fire me and last night there's another issue, I barely sleep, I almost fall asleep when driving to office.
Marketing: Please never think like that. Don't tell anybody, during 1on1, he said he will just cut your bonus, just do your best.
Engineer: That's a little relief, but last night my wife threaten to divorce.
Marketing (pretty woman): Ouchhh, that's horrible, you know I always got your back !
Engineer (thinking): "What that suppose to mean, my wife backup, step mother ???"
Engineer (being professional): Thank you.
Marketing: Let discuss what you find during our stand up meeting today.
Stand up meeting:
CEO: Morning guys, can give me status update ?
(Server) Engineer: I checked the server all night long, they're fine, the issue is on the code !
CEO: Why do you think so? Everybody said server issue and blame we didn't invest on it!
(Server) Engineer:
I don't have access to the code but when player got disconnected before lobby even started, client keep trying to reconnect and hanging there.
Even you restart your game, still hanging there. It should already time out since the game never started for them.
This hanging deplete resource on the server , like denial of service attack since so many clients keep retrying forever !
CEO: Good point, Dev ?
Dev: When we design reconnect, we assume disconnect during game, but not before lobby started.
We didn't expect the server is so crabby like that ! Not my fault.
CEO (thinking): Chicken or egg problem, who I should blame now ??
CEO (professional) : Good point from both of you. How to fix it then ?
Dev: I can fix the code to stop retrying, that's easy one.
CEO: Great, I know I always can count on you !
Dev: But that will need client update, another download.
CEO: We don't have choice, let's proceed.
Dev: Sure.
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