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POV: The highest paid engineer at your company gets fired (www.youtube.com)
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[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 10 points 7 months ago

Where I work, we have 5 "Johns" and they have built some crazy shit to run our org, including things we could have just bought SAAS. They just got bored and made things. We love you, IT department!

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 7 months ago

Does management love them too? Financially, in particular? I don't know their hobbies, but Games Workshop don't accept colleague approval as payment.

[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 3 points 7 months ago

None of us are paid well, but we're working for a charity. So...

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago

None of us are paid well

Does that extend to the bosses too?

[-] derry@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Don't underestimate SaaS bringing crazy shit.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Or going away at any point like a bus hitting a dev.

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