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I know of someone who is in the position of your snowbird, though still employed. He almost delights in the fact that there's been no effort to upgrade from som
by prawn 11y ago
I know of someone who is in the position of your snowbird, though still employed. He almost delights in the fact that there's been no effort to upgrade from something completely reliant on him, even though he knows the situation is crazy. And he has no personal interest in writing himself out of a job. I can't approve of that attitude.
- angersock 11y agoI can't approve of that attitude. Why not? Most companies that end up with that kind of hardcore legacy code a) refuse to upgrade on a reasonable basis and b) refuse to compensate their developers in proportion to the value they ultimately deliver. So, fuck'em. Might as well enjoy the pseudo pension.
- nostalgiac 11y agoI agree. If the company has pidgeon holed themselves into the situation, they clearly have the 2 options you stated, and that should not reflect poorly on the original author.
- prawn 11y agoThis is in health/medical and the employee in question is nearing retirement. I'd like to think that he should be encouraging them to consider a succession plan ahead of time to minimise risk for the thousands of people likely to be effected by this. There's a good chance, from my understanding of the situation, that his managers don't understand the situation as well as he does. I think he should think bigger than himself. Management's decisions are unlikely to be budget related.
- mekael 11y agoThe weird thing is that he's advocated ditching the application in favor of either a custom written or customized off the shelf product, it's more so that upper upper management said "if it's still making us cash, why chance it?" .