<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>I'm pretty certain that anyone directly involved with that was prosecuted in some way, including developers that knowingly helped.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Apr 25, 2024, at 2:47 PM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div class="qt-ydp94f018edyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Has anyone worked in foreign country like Germany as a developer or IT personal?<br></div><div dir="ltr">I wonder how they treat workers and the quality usually is pretty good for the end product.<br></div><div dir="ltr">They were so good they were able to fix the computer system for the VWs to not work during emissions tests so they could pass easily.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="qt-enhancr_card_4956044370">Volkswagen emissions scandal - Wikipedia</a><br></div><div><br></div><div id="qt-ydp6f660358enhancr_card_4956044370" class="qt-ydp6f660358yahoo-link-enhancr-card qt-ydp6f660358ymail-preserve-class qt-ydp6f660358ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans VF, YahooSans, OpenSans VF, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><table border="0" class="qt-ydp6f660358card-wrapper qt-ydp6f660358yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px;"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" class="qt-ydp6f660358card qt-ydp6f660358yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-top-width:1px;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-right-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-bottom-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-left-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-top-left-radius:2px;border-top-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-left-radius:2px;"><tbody><tr><td class="qt-ydp6f660358card-primary-image-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/PzBkIO.6W1UsDP_Tzv0DvQ--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/VW_Golf_TDI_Clean_Diesel_WAS_2010_8983.JPG/1200px-VW_Golf_TDI_Clean_Diesel_WAS_2010_8983.JPG.cf.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" height="175" style="background-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;position:relative;border-top-left-radius:2px;border-top-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;min-height:175px;"><table border="0" class="qt-ydp6f660358card-overlay-container-table qt-ydp6f660358yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="qt-ydp6f660358card-overlay-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png" bgcolor="transparent" valign="top" style="background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:2px;border-top-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;min-height:175px;"><table border="0" class="qt-ydp6f660358yahoo-ignore-table" height="175" style="width:100%;min-height:175px;"><tbody><tr><td class="qt-ydp6f660358card-richInfo2" style="text-align:left;padding-top:15px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:15px;vertical-align:top;"><br></td><td class="qt-ydp6f660358card-actions" style="text-align:right;padding-top:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;vertical-align:top;"><div class="qt-ydp6f660358card-share-container"><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" align="center" class="qt-ydp6f660358card-info qt-ydp6f660358yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%;background-repeat:repeat;background-attachment:scroll;background-image:none;background-size:auto;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;position:relative;z-index:2;width:100%;max-width:400px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-left-radius:2px;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);padding-top:16px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:16px;padding-left:12px;vertical-align:top;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:2px;"><br></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding-top:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:16px;padding-left:12px;width:99%;font-family:YahooSans VF, YahooSans, OpenSans VF, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;"><h2 class="qt-ydp6f660358card-title" style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:6px;margin-left:0px;font-family:YahooSans VF, YahooSans, OpenSans VF, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(29, 34, 40);max-width:314px;">Volkswagen emissions scandal - Wikipedia<br></h2><p class="qt-ydp6f660358card-description" style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(151, 158, 168);">The Volkswagen emissions scandal, sometimes known as Dieselgate[23][24] or Emissionsgate,[25][24] began in Septe...<br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div id="qt-yahoo_quoted_4588070063" class="qt-yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38, 40, 42);"><div>On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 02:43:46 PM MST, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div id="qt-yiv1142443239"><div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><div>I’ve worked at plenty of places that are more like what you’re saying about FB, but they weren’t working on ISO 900x and CMMI certifications.<br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239">I was simply reflecting on the fact that we’ve got a lot of national Headquarters for companies here in the Phoenix area that ARE working on these certifications, and this has a certain depressing effect on wages when their goal is to make people in the same roles interchangeable. That’s what these efforts are all about — minimizing risk and reducing costs.<br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239">They’re turning programming into a far less creative endeavor. That requires a more mechanized approach and less variability among workers.<br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><div>Maintenance programmers are simply required to take a bug ticket submitted with a documented way to reproduce the error and fix it without altering any other code.<br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><div><br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239">-David Schwartz<br></div></div></div></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="qt-yiv1142443239"><div id="qt-yiv1142443239yqtfd12994" class="qt-yiv1142443239yqt4430544315"><div class="qt-yiv1142443239">On Apr 25, 2024, at 1:51 PM, Ryan Petris <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="mailto:ryan@petris.net" class="qt-yiv1142443239">ryan@petris.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;text-wrap-mode:wrap;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;text-decoration-thickness:auto;" class="qt-yiv1142443239">I can't say I've worked anywhere as strict as that, however I'll say that like any other career field, there are good and bad work places. Places that like to overly restrict things are going to lose good developers, and likely don't pay well to begin with.<br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;text-wrap-mode:wrap;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;text-decoration-thickness:auto;" class="qt-yiv1142443239"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;text-wrap-mode:wrap;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;text-decoration-thickness:auto;" class="qt-yiv1142443239">I worked for Meta/Facebook for a year before I got laid off last year, and I'll say that it was very much not like this. While you had regular projects and whatnot going on, you were free to make changes you thought were necessary or good changes to make. Now I didn't work on anything public facing, as I'm certain there are certain controls on making changes to what users can see, but otherwise any change just required approval from any other developer, and it would make it into production 6 hours or so later.<br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;text-wrap-mode:wrap;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;text-decoration-thickness:auto;" class="qt-yiv1142443239"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div id="qt-yiv1142443239yqtfd91588" class="qt-yiv1142443239yqt4430544315"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><div class="qt-yiv1142443239"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="qt-yqt4430544315" id="qt-yqtfd14218"><div>---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a shape="rect" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div></div></div></div></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>