Coping with Impossible Situations

Originally stream of conscioused on social media and reposted here with minor edits and formatting. I’m still trying to recover from a friend telling me about the “tech lead” at their security job who wouldn’t merge my friend’s Merge Request because “why does it have all these functions? i can’t read it, just make it flat and put it in one big try catch? here I redid it for you, see with out the…