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POV: The highest paid engineer at your company gets fired (www.youtube.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] zwerg@feddit.org 10 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 23 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It could happen that way. More often, the company can't or won't get them back.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

It's not a mistake until you admit it.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago

"Failure of leadership"