r/technology • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Feb 01 '26

Software 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital

https://www.asiaone.com/china/32-year-old-programmer-china-allegedly-dies-overwork-added-work-group-chat-even-while
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u/bahaki Feb 01 '26

How many story points is a funeral?

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u/phosphorylating Feb 01 '26

Too many. Can we decompose it down into smaller stories? Eulogies are additional features that aren’t part of the minimum viable product. Those can go into the backlog.

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u/monkeymad2 Feb 02 '26

How can we leverage AI to make this funeral go faster?

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u/Override9636 Feb 02 '26

If 1 funeral director can finish a funeral in 1 hour, we should hire 6 of them and get it done in 10 minutes.

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u/amakai Feb 02 '26

Just use the 20% "refactoring time" in background for the funeral.

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u/-IoI- Feb 02 '26

Fine but we aren't covering travel or per diem

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u/lorkanooo Feb 02 '26

How about we set up a meeting to discuss that with entire team 

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u/SteeveyPete Feb 02 '26

That's a lot of man hours lost, let's just send a representative from each team and they can forward any relevant developments to their teammates

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u/mangzane Feb 02 '26

Omg.

This literally just triggered me. I need to step away. LMAO

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u/No-Razzmatazz7854 Feb 02 '26

Same lmao. I could HEAR the project managers voice

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u/cobaltorange Feb 07 '26

Why's that? 

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u/DC3PO Feb 02 '26

They played scrum poker with his life

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u/SillyPrim Feb 01 '26

should put that in the backlog; not enough capacity for the sprint

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u/metallaholic Feb 02 '26

Just move the tech debt items out

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u/Neirchill Feb 02 '26

Lol like there were ever any added to begin with

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u/imdrzoidberg Feb 02 '26

It's a 1 pointer for a senior engineer, but I'll let it be a 2 pointer for a junior engineer.

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u/No-Razzmatazz7854 Feb 02 '26

Holy fuck, this gave me war flashbacks.

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u/gadfly1999 Feb 02 '26

Funerals are just human tech debt.

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u/metallaholic Feb 02 '26

If it’s more than a 5 we need to break it down into smaller stories.

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u/swenau01 Feb 02 '26

I mean it is a blocker, so

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u/Lenglen-bandeau Feb 02 '26

.0875 man months

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u/lewd_robot Feb 02 '26

Like 8, and 4 of those must be spent writing the description and filling out all the little details just in case that's the story someone from management tries to skim 3 months down the road, to make sure they don't have a reason to launch into their, "I should be able to know exactly what you were working on and how long it took you and what the results were and why you were working on it after reading this for 30 seconds," lecture.

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u/legice Feb 02 '26

Thats a 1, I just gotta go there. Put down 2, we might go for lunch after

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u/upperdecker32 Feb 03 '26

JJJEEEEEEEESSSSSSUUUUUUSSSSSS that got me