Precarious position to be in when you have to clean up after others, and these 'others' are not pro-actively helping you out, or have no incentive to do so. Ev

Precarious position to be in when you have to clean up after others, and these 'others' are not pro-actively helping you out, or have no incentive to do so. Every software company - or so it looks from my anecdotal experience - has one of more of these positions. It seems to be more rampant in larger companies or companies carrying a lot of legacy code. Nonetheless, I've seen this pattern consistently in QA and Rel-Eng groups where the impossible expectation of delivering quality out of incomplete and poorly designed products. It's also funny that usually the ones building new things - vs fixing / delivering things - are the ones getting the highest compensations.