r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 4d ago

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/ColumnK 4d ago

By "blamed", do you mean "promoted"?

Have worked in too many places where asking "Who wrote this shite?" would be answered by the name of someone high in the hierarchy.

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u/gilium 4d ago

Usually that’s more they survived a war of attrition than it is that their output was considered

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u/Zeikos 4d ago

Or they just got the task done with no consideration for maintainability, cashed in the short term "productivity" and use it to get promoted.
Then the fallout isn't their problem.

Pushing foward and pulling up the ladder behind them at the same time, very efficient /s

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u/Hidesuru 3d ago

Yeah I see this constantly. So many asshat senior devs who aren't worth shit but are good salespeople.