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Are you guys irreplaceable?

• adamrezich 5y ago
  absolutely. I was hired this year to learn how the hell all the complicated stuff the 55- and 65-year-old programmers do every day works, and I've only learned a fraction of it so far.
  • ghaff 5y ago
    The world is full of “irreplaceable” people.
    • 6d6b73 5y ago
      Better version imho - Cementaries are full of irreplaceable people.
      • ghaff 5y ago
        Well. I wasn’t going to go there given the context.
      • adamrezich 5y ago
        never caught covid when I took care of my mom when she had it last year and I worked as a cashier at Walmart during last year's Sturgis Rally and tourism season, and I somehow survived this year's Rally and tourism season as well... I'm going to be just fine, but I appreciate the "concern" nonetheless.
  • johnchick 5y ago
    Sounds like your employer will have an opportunity to find someone who's clearly more competent than you.
  • hoten 5y ago
    Seems they filled the position as recently as 7 months ago.
    • kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
      Right, but there was a source of knowledge (the two older employees) to obtain information from. If one of those older employees is irreplaceable, and they leave, it's going to seriously impact production systems.
      • adamrezich 5y ago
        exactly.
      • kaydub 5y ago
        These guys work at a school district. They're not working somewhere that it's going to make a huge difference to have some impact on production systems. Honestly, I'd put my money on it being in the organizations best interests long term if the two older employees did leave them in a rut. A lot of times it's good to purge these types of places of the cruft left behind by legacy.
        • adamrezich 5y ago
          where does this vindictive attitude, especially given that you know nothing about the job or circumstances surrounding it, come from?
  • tehwebguy 5y ago
    Is this the whole issue, that everyone drawing a line in the sand wrongly believes they can’t be replaced?
• kaydub 5y ago
  No, they're definitely replaceable.
  • adamrezich 5y ago
    you wish! the whole point of hiring me was to have somebody younger learn the ropes of how our complex, outdated, and undocumented systems work. if the senior programmer gets fired, especially right as the school year is just starting, there's no way the other programmer can handle 100% of department responsibilities. and that's assuming she's willing to follow such a mandate anyway! she's out of office for a week so I haven't been able to ask her.
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