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> They either get yelled at or saddled with a bunch of homework because they've drawn attention to a can of worms and are being deputized to fix four things ins
by nwmcsween 5y ago
> They either get yelled at or saddled with a bunch of homework because they've drawn attention to a can of worms and are being deputized to fix four things instead of the one they knew about.
There is a gradient I've seen with IT workers in general, that is doing IT as a passion and doing IT for a job. Disciplining someone for not knowing enough though is a bit much.
> real problems start when the complaining ends
By this point no one cares anymore and the technical debt is beyond fixing.
- hinkley 5y agoI dunno. I know of a project that lingered in this spot for a couple of years before enough people who cared had left to make it a truly lost cause. But there was no leadership to speak of to motivate any of those people, and most of them left. There were points right up until the end where these people were sprinkled across enough of the organization to be a beach head for doing something, but then they lost people on two teams in as many months and from then on it is destined to be status quo. Or at least until they decide to binge on a tech stack update, hire too many people but not for long enough and end up back where they are now. From what I understand they've done that a couple times already.