>The company badly needed a change to survive [...] Lol, nah. This is fiction, no company IRL is going to start laying off people after a few days of noticing

>The company badly needed a change to survive [...] Lol, nah. This is fiction, no company IRL is going to start laying off people after a few days of noticing a small dip in production. The whole premise of "We own this company but if this code change doesn't go through in X days we will fire people instead" is completely stupid. But it is an entertaining story and it gets the point through that internal bureaucracy gets in the way of many things.