Bloody 'ell, that was a strong start for the day... I got a task to write some data to a DVD/USB. Thats fine, happens. But when I opened it...
They wanted to write the user folder and vital documents from an external employee who changed status and thus basically got fired and rehired under a different name, as far as the system is concerned. They helpfully let us know that they want us to write: C/users/USERNAME and .../USERNAME/Documents. Thats all. Now, this is bleeding from so many wounds, I couldnt even decide where to start. But lets try:
1: Why are you storing vital documents in a non-backed-up place when there specifically are servers and One-Drive for that?
2: Why does the functioning of your team depend on the stuff stored in your personal drive?
3: At least give us a computer name so we can check if it is even still in existence. You know, because they get reset to zero when you hand them in.
4: The stuff stored in your drive may still be accessible, but this is not the way to access it and why the hell would you write it out instead of just copying it over.
5: You asked us to write it to a physical carrier, but provided no USB stick, and I highly doubt you have a DVD reader wherever you are.
6: Even IF we ignore all of that, I am at least 3% certain that you have no right to read external devices so it would be useless.
(7): I'm pretty sure this is the same user who wanted me to transplant his Teams history a week or two ago, because apparently that is vital as well.
Even if it is coded inefficiently, surely whatever it is doing should show up as a rise in CPU usage from waste computing, or GPU if it is rendering everything in triplicate, or disk use if it is trying to fill up all available bytes with the script of the bee movie, or something?