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POV: The highest paid engineer at your company gets fired (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] zwerg@feddit.org 43 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Honestly, it sounds like John was a problem and needed to be fired a long time ago, before he created this unmaintainable mess.

[–] bss03 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I agree that John was the problem, but I think it was management responsibly to fix. Either through some coaching or as you say, before he became business-critical.

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