lol… if they had a job that was ONLY writing unit tests, I would take it!

Kind of the reverse… more lamenting the loss of QA and SRE roles in favor of mechanical (AI) code reviewers and non-technical persons rubber-stamping an increasingly deep pipeline that change requests must traverse.

With that typo, it sounds like a personal insult. :)

Open the pod bay doors…

Of course! If not at the time of use, then via taxes coming out of their paycheck… but usually both.

You might be looking for the “ssh socks proxy” option (-D?).