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A colleague of mine died suddenly. This guy was a tech lead at my tiny satellite office for a major tech company. Within DAYS they already had an internal/exter
by _huayra_ 5y ago
A colleague of mine died suddenly. This guy was a tech lead at my tiny satellite office for a major tech company. Within DAYS they already had an internal/external job posting to fill his position up.
I mean I know it's just business, but I realized that I was replacable that day.
- rightbyte 5y agoA colleague of mine changed job recently. He was tech lead and had been working on the project for years and we other were quite new. It was obvious things would get harder from now on so half of us bailed, i.e. the three programmers with more then 6 month on the project, and the project collapsed. I mean with enough skill and money the experienced of us and he was replaceable. But not at the current budget. Maybe not even on twice the budget. 'Irreplaceable' is ofent with an implied 'at reasonable cost in a reasonable time'.
- PeterisP 5y agoI think that it's an important lesson to internalize both about yourself and also your coworkers. My place has a saying that literally translates to something like "there's a full graveyard with irreplaceable people" - and that's how it is; no matter how hard is to replace someone, eventually they will (have to) be replaced anyway.