If it helps, there have been emergency releases--code, write, test and release over twenty four hours aka 11:59 PM the next day--to avoid nullifing a legit settlement the state just barely pulled off and they (they unspecified but assume prosecuting law firm with many people and combined salary equal to the GDP of like, Poland) are watching literally. Like, no one says it straight out but scrolling down the forwarded email and seeing who was on all the previous 'cc's is kind of a terrifying hint. Like, bad enough if the Communications director is randomly showing up in what looks like an ORacle tech document in conjunction with design, but if the commissioner also appears in conjunctio with a state legislator, I hit google because this is epic shit and also communication director equals public record.
Like, emergncy releases aren't rare or anything and the twenty four hour clock isn't either, but htere's 'emergency because fucked up code and users' and the very, very, very rare 'emergency because we may have ACTUALLY SUPER LIKE SO MUCH violated so many kinds of civil rights, ADA and even invented new ways to do it'. And before I was a tester but while my mom was a business analyst who wrote design documents: "the governor got a letter from the USDA." Like, it could be a blank piece of paper or asking the govenor about the weather, doesn't matter; if they've noticed we exist, it's because we are fucked, assumed minimum degree 'so very much'.
(Acutal letter: super polite mild query on what was going on with the new computer system, still have it.
Consequence: I am working from memory but roughly like this: the state agency very quickly broke a very expensive contract with a new contractor two years in and paid astronomical fines plus extra for expedited 'get the fuck out of our offices, we will physically carry you to the border, do you get this the USDA IS UNDER ALL THE DESKS AND IS EATING OUR DREAMS' This, in the middle of a fiscal year, while in the middle of prepping for a major release they were in the middle of coding right then, and proceeded to re-contract our old contractor to come back like, I don't even know how much we paid, no one cared, probably with the entire executive begging just please please fucking please all of our beds are filled with USDA approved organic horses' heads and now they're buying us organic beds delivered to our houses with horses' heads pre-installed and the horses' heads are locally sourced and guaranteed cruelty-free there is a horse watching me through my window it has no body but screams.
IT's reaction: fell in love with the USDA and had multiple parties with the returning contractors while sending that polite email to everyone that existed. Overall yes a very good thing--it took two year and change to get to where we were before hiring the fired contractors, but maybe literally teh only time ever that justifies a summons of the USDA
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If it helps, there have been emergency releases--code, write, test and release over twenty four hours aka 11:59 PM the next day--to avoid nullifing a legit settlement the state just barely pulled off and they (they unspecified but assume prosecuting law firm with many people and combined salary equal to the GDP of like, Poland) are watching literally. Like, no one says it straight out but scrolling down the forwarded email and seeing who was on all the previous 'cc's is kind of a terrifying hint. Like, bad enough if the Communications director is randomly showing up in what looks like an ORacle tech document in conjunction with design, but if the commissioner also appears in conjunctio with a state legislator, I hit google because this is epic shit and also communication director equals public record.
Like, emergncy releases aren't rare or anything and the twenty four hour clock isn't either, but htere's 'emergency because fucked up code and users' and the very, very, very rare 'emergency because we may have ACTUALLY SUPER LIKE SO MUCH violated so many kinds of civil rights, ADA and even invented new ways to do it'. And before I was a tester but while my mom was a business analyst who wrote design documents: "the governor got a letter from the USDA." Like, it could be a blank piece of paper or asking the govenor about the weather, doesn't matter; if they've noticed we exist, it's because we are fucked, assumed minimum degree 'so very much'.
(Acutal letter: super polite mild query on what was going on with the new computer system, still have it.
Consequence: I am working from memory but roughly like this: the state agency very quickly broke a very expensive contract with a new contractor two years in and paid astronomical fines plus extra for expedited 'get the fuck out of our offices, we will physically carry you to the border, do you get this the USDA IS UNDER ALL THE DESKS AND IS EATING OUR DREAMS' This, in the middle of a fiscal year, while in the middle of prepping for a major release they were in the middle of coding right then, and proceeded to re-contract our old contractor to come back like, I don't even know how much we paid, no one cared, probably with the entire executive begging just please please fucking please all of our beds are filled with USDA approved organic horses' heads and now they're buying us organic beds delivered to our houses with horses' heads pre-installed and the horses' heads are locally sourced and guaranteed cruelty-free there is a horse watching me through my window it has no body but screams.
IT's reaction: fell in love with the USDA and had multiple parties with the returning contractors while sending that polite email to everyone that existed. Overall yes a very good thing--it took two year and change to get to where we were before hiring the fired contractors, but maybe literally teh only time ever that justifies a summons of the USDA