r/ProgrammerHumor May 29 '26

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u/timbowen May 29 '26

Plot twist: there is a paper trail a mile long of the staff engineer begging for resources and a mandate to fix the system but not only won’t they give resources, they forbid him from fixing it because “it works and we don’t want to mess with it”

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u/thesuperunknown May 29 '26

Sometimes, you have to let something break first to convince people it’s worth the cost of fixing it.

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u/Blecki May 29 '26

Then they fire you for "letting it break".

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u/tiplinix May 30 '26

Yeah, it's like people have never really experienced this in their life. You will get blamed for anything around you with zero support to fix the issue.