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Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job.
by onion2k 4y ago
Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job.
- BrentOzar 4y ago> Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job. Only at your old rate.
- seadan83 4y agoFor software, the existing employees will always be cheaper. It has been argued that an engineers value is captured most in their mental model of the system. EG: Want a new feature in a system I built and maintained? Boom, here are the touch points, the gotchyas, and here is the roadmap to get if done in three days. Anyone new to that system will first say, cool, give me about 3 weeks to learn this code, and then maybe another 7 while we implement it and work through all of the trip wires we did not know about.
- kaba0 4y agoAnd firing them was just an insanely dumb thing significantly increasing expenses.