‘Phew… It isn’t easy here either.’
Hell.
Firstly, there was no reason for the client company employees to see YongHo directly. YongHo only had to see Kim WonHo. The work too, was minor things like fixing button shapes.
There wasn’t enough manpower so each person had to do their job properly, and if there was a hole, then getting abused by superiors was the norm.
As the representative of the client company, he was bossy to no end. HyeJin warned YongHo again and again to be careful around him. There were a lot of stories but she just said that he would know of it when it happens.
The work was not as simple as he thought.
The words were simple, but from the source editing to the document work, it wasn’t easy to match the alignment. However, to YongHo, bugs were a way to develop himself. Moreover, fixing bugs were his specialty.
KO Telecom’s project, A.K.A Hell, YongHo was instead filled with expectations.
The alarm of the bug window popped up as soon as the program was run. On the top right of the bug window, tens of bugs started popping up.
YongHo looked at the number on the side of the bug window. A total of 473 errors. That was the current number of bugs on his bug window.
The bug window didn’t only pick out real errors, but it also picked out anything that could cause a problem. Logic errors, efficiency errors included. For instance, the answer was supposed to be 11 but the calculations went wrong and the answer was changed to 7.
‘If I fix all of them, they would probably call me crazy. Let’s see how HyeJin does and match her speed.’
“HyeJin, how many bugs are we supposed to fix each day?”
“Then how about you?”
“Yeah. How many do you do each day?”
“I do about 2 or 3?”
“Don’t feel too much pressure. First, it is sufficient to know how the current system is running.”
“I did say that but… We are still interns so there would probably nobody who expect things from you.”
“Oh, I see.”
“Okay. I will do my best and fix anything I can.”
“I know.”
HyeJin turned her face to the screen after talking. Perhaps her skills were recognized, but she was using dual monitors despite being an intern. YongHo was the only one who was using a laptop within the office.
The next day, after fixing some bugs, Yong Ho, who was reading the documents related to the project, was called by manager An Byung Hoon. (This is the guy from course registration)
“Good day to you, manager.”
“Is there any problem?”
“Mr. YongHo fixed some things according to the test result report……”
“Really? Hmm……”
Thinking that everyone else did the same.
“No. I will confirm and speak to you again. Go back to your seat.”
Returning to his seat, HyeJin asked what was up.
PL was the acronym of project leader, and it was the person who lead the project technically. Programmers usually spoke to the PL rather than the PM(project manager?).
“WHAAAAAT?”
“Sunbae, you came here yesterday though?”
“Then you fixed bugs after just coming here yesterday?”
“It’s not about being good or bad, but… it’s too early. Even if you played around at college…… Sunbae, didn’t you fix wrong? This project is not some part time work you know?”
“The total cost for this project is nearing 2billion! (≈1.736million USD), but fixing things on the first day……”
“No matter how simple it is… how can you start within a day… Did you compile the source properly then upload it?”
Even after that, HyeJin kept asking as if she didn’t believe it. YongHo’s reaction to hers was a there’s-no-problem attitude. But there was one problem.
Now it was No JunWoo, who called YongHo. According to the subcontract contract law, it was illegal for the person in charge from the client company to be placed in the same working place. Moreover, the person in charge from the client company must tell the specifications to the programmers through the PL or PM, not directly.
“Mr. YongHo. Speak to me for a sec?”
“Yes, you.”
“Sit here.”
No JunWoo.
“I saw your name on the test result report.”
Manager An then No JunWoo. YongHo wanted to know what was going on.
“What do you mean by that……?”
“Today is the second day, sir.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Why manager An……”
No JunWoo called manager An without listening to YongHo any further. YongHo went back to his seat and manager An took his place.
Translator’s note
Regular chapter 2/4
473 errors… Looks like MC has met his match. Korea… why does it have so high unemployment rate when there isn’t much manpower? Greedy companies….
Thx for reading!
Translator : Chamber
Proofreader : Maled