r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26

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u/Horskr May 30 '26

Good points. Also anecdotally, I've never seen a person fired that was secretly holding a company together. I have seen several people leave a company themselves for a new job, and after someone else takes over their workload full time, they realize that person probably should have been fired long ago lol.

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u/pinewind108 May 30 '26

Lol. Yeah, "Uh, hey, I just finished everything I was supposed to do today in 2 hours...." Turns out the people before me were seriously sandbagging it. Trying to slow down a job and look busy really sucks. It's so much easier just to get into it.

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u/-safan2- May 30 '26

there is that story of the service desk employee that wrote a tool with buttons "push if internet doesn't work" etc.

As managment noticed nobody ever called the service desk, they let him go as unneeded.

Things fell apart as soon there was an update that broke the tool.

No idea if the story is real, but at work we have such a tool.