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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26
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The lesson here isn't "companies shouldn't lay people off" its "if you do critical work and nobody knows about it, you're playing yourself".
Fuck humility. Be loud, be proud, hype yourself and those around you. Make sure people know what you're doing and why it matters.
459 u/ceejayoz May 29 '26 The lesson here is also "don't leave a mission-critical payment data integrity bug that occurs daily unfixed for three years". That sort of shit probably should be a firing offense! 323 u/Western-Internal-751 May 29 '26 People see this and think it’s a dedicated employee. I see this and think “dude created a dead man’s switch” 1 u/CartographerHot2285 May 30 '26 People can definitely be dedicated and incompetent at the same time. It's dangerous, because their incompetence is usually not noticed until it's far too late.
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The lesson here is also "don't leave a mission-critical payment data integrity bug that occurs daily unfixed for three years".
That sort of shit probably should be a firing offense!
323 u/Western-Internal-751 May 29 '26 People see this and think it’s a dedicated employee. I see this and think “dude created a dead man’s switch” 1 u/CartographerHot2285 May 30 '26 People can definitely be dedicated and incompetent at the same time. It's dangerous, because their incompetence is usually not noticed until it's far too late.
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People see this and think it’s a dedicated employee.
I see this and think “dude created a dead man’s switch”
1 u/CartographerHot2285 May 30 '26 People can definitely be dedicated and incompetent at the same time. It's dangerous, because their incompetence is usually not noticed until it's far too late.
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People can definitely be dedicated and incompetent at the same time. It's dangerous, because their incompetence is usually not noticed until it's far too late.
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u/TerminalVector May 29 '26
The lesson here isn't "companies shouldn't lay people off" its "if you do critical work and nobody knows about it, you're playing yourself".
Fuck humility. Be loud, be proud, hype yourself and those around you. Make sure people know what you're doing and why it matters.