My manager at a trendy enterprise SAAS company said to me: > My code is a nightmare . . . Can you take a look at my pull request? I need a thumb's up. This is

My manager at a trendy enterprise SAAS company said to me: > My code is a nightmare . . . Can you take a look at my pull request? I need a thumb's up. This is a direct quote; I know because it was so shocking I won't be able to forget it. A month down the road, I had stopped giving him +1's, and he had stopped asking for them. The really sad part is what "nightmare" means to him, considering how unbelievably bad his "well designed" code looks. Somehow he was able to squeak his group by under the radar every time a production app failed.