• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Last time I was laid off it started with “we need to really nail down the docs for these systems”.

    No one ever gives you extra time for documentation.

    Like you, my responsibilities were split between 2 or 3 people.

    I’ll never again do documentation that well. Fuck 'em. That’s not true - I will, for myself.

    • SolarMech@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      Those are really stupid managers.

      If you don’t have docs it’s a tough competition between having your more knowledgeable devs re-explaining what they know X times to X new hires, or letting new devs figure it out on their own which is both costly in terms of their time and more importantly, risky as hell.

      Bad managers love risk though. Since it usually is a choice between speed now and risk later, it only blows up in your face later, and quite spectacularly, and everyone looks like heroes while they are putting fires out on overtime.

      That said good managers probably don’t tolerate that shit from bad managers under them and can sniff out a firefighter culture pretty quick.

      I guess what I meant to say was, managers that value doc do exist. If they really do, they’ll let you know.