I did this recently. They “replaced” me with two engineers after I had been begging for meaningful help for months.
Why the quote marks?
Because as far as I know, they only finished the immediate project that I was working on and didn’t continue doing any of the next things on the roadmap that were sorely needed. A fintech company that somehow assigned zero importance to their payments system.
At 4:30 pm on my last day at my previous job my boss asked me to email a customer something.
I left that shit on read
Bonus points for having the “Read” timestamp 1 second before logoff.
I did this three years ago. The company is going bankrupt now. Coincidence? Definitely.
I just know that for decades people will check the git blame and curse my name.
I once worked at a place where I built out a bunch of internal tools that became pretty heavily integrated into the development workflow. Everything I built was the shittiest, most disgusting piece of garbage I’ve ever seen, but it worked. My job became solely managing these tools, as everyone else struggled to read and comprehend my filth.
I ended up switching jobs because they wouldn’t give me the compensation I asked for and half of the development team quit before my 2 weeks was up to avoid dealing with my slop, a lot of them were already considering leaving for lack of compensation, but this was the nail in the coffin.
I found out a few months later that instead of just going back to life without these tools or finding someone to take them over they just shut down the development department. The people who were left either got fired or moved to a different department to pursue a new career path.
Currently suffering through the pain of a programmer leaving a year ago and seemingly no one inherited his knowledge of the stuff he was working on for one of my projects. It was also the fault of other departments for delaying my work for even longer but they don’t care. It’s agony having to ask around the office for someone who might actually have the info I need.
Currently going through this lol. React is pain in general, but React that I’VE written is a crime against humanity
I left my code in way too good a shape. Even documented. They didn’t deserve this at all. :)
That’s how the ancient knowledge of the lab gets passed down. Well, ideally before you leave. Gotta teach the new generation.
Why wait until you quit? I’ll do that when we get a new guy?.
FNG gets passed the shit tasks I don’t have time for 🤣
Just did that 😅
