This story is like a parable that condenses all my work experiences so far. The problem is that management is easily terrified and impressed by anyone who can

This story is like a parable that condenses all my work experiences so far. The problem is that management is easily terrified and impressed by anyone who can flummox them with tech buzzwords and knows just enough programming to be dangerous. They get in early, create a horrific mess that takes other people at least a year to untangle enough to be able to maintain. The company talks forever about rewriting it - but everyone's too busy putting out fires in the spaghetti to work on the newer better architecture. Really, most of the crap these 'geniuses' write could be quickly replaced with something off the open source shelf. But the customers are too entrenched in the proprietary spaghetti, so they can't, etc. And every new 6 figure tech guy they hire just tries to create his own cozy nest of over complex code in a sad attempt to create job security. Its all a scam.