I was on a team once where two particularly long tenured staff were very invested in the idea that we shouldn’t try to make anything better because this is as good as it gets and nowhere else does anything better. Couldn’t do database backups because we had to ship (shit) product no matter what, and spend time only on feature work. I think it was their way of clinging on like barnacles to somewhere that was comfortable for them. Anyway, they both got laid off this year after ~10 years each.
Of course their shithead VP, who once insisted that a salary adjustment of +3% over a period where inflation was higher was not a real terms pay cut (because the number went up), is still there. At an offsite once he introduced his strategy, which was “put ML on everything” (that was unusual in 2018) and could not answer my very basic question “to do what?”.
I still fairly often wake up at 3am with nightmares about this team.
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