Disappointment thread

Share your disappointments, progriders. Large or small.

I'll start with two:

1) In my career, I didn't end up doing simulations of interesting systems, just conversions of enterprise data between systems whose architects didn't talk to each other and liked padding their resumes with obscure data formats.

2) The Java annotation @VisibleForTesting looks cool the first time you see it, because you think ``Oh, cool. Automatic reflected access unrestriction under my testing framework!''. But actually it doesn't do anything at all. Shit, man, if you want me to comment // public, not private, for injection in integration tests I can do that already.

We use a terrible library from a certain company, and I got continually reassured by my boss ``It will be okay, we have a support contract.''. Then we actually used the support contract on two issues (Lossy compression when lossless was advertised, plus terrible performance) and got told ``Sorry, there's really nothing we can do. Just try fiddling with the options.''.