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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Lol, welcome to the party. I'm not in a programming position, I'm on a systems engineering team. Most of my team mates can do some PowerShell scripting, but I have some programming classes under my belt.

I have a PowerShell script that is complex enough that I'm confortable calling it a program instead. Roughly half of the code is comments or logging the program flow. Every run generates a step by step log of all actions taken. I have 2 Word documents that summarize the process to different levels of detail, and a fucking flowchart for the visual peeps.

I'm still treated as the only person who could possibly flip the clearly labelled read only and route email to our team only switches and troubleshoot it.

To be fair, I recently learned during a vendor meet and greet that the vendor's tech guy in the meeting had previously made a consulting firm to sell exactly what I built this program to do. Probably means I'm in the wrong line of work.