> Thinking about the fact that people like this are out there makes me paranoid about my hiring all over again. To be honest, I was 100% trolling or troll-bait

> Thinking about the fact that people like this are out there makes me paranoid about my hiring all over again. To be honest, I was 100% trolling or troll-baiting "for the lulz" - I wouldn't actually ever apply my "advice". And I don't think there's actually a significant chance of coming across people thinking this way in your business unless you work in very specific areas. I mean, sure, some of us enjoy to destroy/break things or to make them fail or fall apart for either "the fun of it" or "to leave space for future better things", but we do it in "special controlled environments" to get our kicks, not in our business/work. Unless you're in the military or a similar business you wouldn't ever be in the position or hiring people expected to manifest their selective-destructive tendencies at work and have the risk of them also occasionally turning the gun in the wrong direction. The biggest problem for a business imo is people who actually do this but do it subtly and unconsciously: like the developers picking "interesting" architectures and technologies that end up destroying the possibility of integration with legacy services and indirectly forces an expensive rewrite of those legacy systems, the managers that adopt "novel" management systems that end up pushing valuable people out of the company etc. People that are consciously doing sabbotage and destructive action (even if it's "to make the world a better place" in their views) are easy to spot and handle (eg. legally), and those with the competence to really do things stealthly are always more motivated to apply such skills in other areas... the other "damaged apples" doing it without fully realizing are dangerous for businesses and you need to worry about them when hiring...