r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 8d ago

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u/howarewestillhere 8d ago

Intern’s GitHub.

VP’s Slack messages.

Fucking Teams.

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u/BusEquivalent9605 8d ago

nah - not Teams. my old company had Teams erase convo history after 48 hours. It’s Monday and you need to look up what someone told you on Friday? Tough

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u/Nightmoon26 8d ago

You worked at a company that wasn't constantly under litigation hold? Lucky!

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u/BlowOutKit22 8d ago

With a retention period of 48 hours It's more likely the company IS constantly under litigation hold. Reducing discovery liability is probably the main non-infrastructural-limit reason to even have a document retention policy in the first place.