It's even worse as an old sysadmin, since my Groundhog Day permeates almost every part of the organization.. and I've learned to avert my eyes from the code its

It's even worse as an old sysadmin, since my Groundhog Day permeates almost every part of the organization.. and I've learned to avert my eyes from the code itself and leave that nightmare to the Old Programmers. Not that any of this is surprising, since the lessons of the semiconductor boom and bust weren't put to adequate use during the dot-com boom and bust, so whatever new lessons we learned then still aren't being put to use. Since being in what is, fundamentally, a support profession, the most I can do is play along. That means, sadly, as another commenter admitted of himself, I'm in on it.