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- programmer_humor@programming.dev
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We recently had to buy out a director that kept all the technical knowledge to themselves for the last 20 years. They were almost always available 24x7 for outage calls and it became clear his teams didn’t know shit about anything, especially when said director was sick or on vacation. He was labeled a danger to the infrastructure and settled for a multimillion dollar buyout with a full knowledge transfer. Retirement age, fat 401k, company stock and other investments… yeah, he took that deal immediately, like no hesitation.
There are people at my job like that and it’s so annoying. They never answer any questions about how they do things, so I’m having to reverse engineer their solutions if they decide not to be available lol
It’s so frustrating how successful soloing information in corporate environments is
I know you didn’t ask and this is just anecdotal evidence from my employer, but the people who tried to reverse engineer this guys work were given strict deadlines they never met. Pen testers to straight up turnaround kings, this guy buried them all and had to be bought out. It was cheaper to buy him out than it was to pursue the next step. Stay safe my friend, stay valuable.
After seeing so many companies screw over long time and loyal employees, the lesson is clear that this guy at your company had the right idea.
The unrealistic part is management admitting to a mistake
Remember kids, make your code as confusing as possible. Clear documentation just makes it easier to replace you.
That’s the POV when the company leadership doesn’t understand software development and promotes based on quick wins.
Companies that allows and even encourage bus factors of one devs like John will always have these issues.
As a John in both name and in relation to my main project at work, I am working my ass off to write comprehensive documentation and to train the rest of the team to take over. I don’t wanna be working on this same shit in 5 years.
