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Re:Reddit and Facebook Veteran on How to Troubleshoot Troubl... by balls187 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:56PM (#11624175)
> That guy who decides to rewrite an entire system in his off-hours in a new language without telling anyone else?

I had a boss who came back from vacation that was so threatened by the automated testing harness myself and another coworker created, that she rewrote the entire system herself.

It was very demoralizing.

Re:Reddit and Facebook Veteran on How to Troubleshoot Troubl... by sqldba on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:18AM (#11626371)
I've seen this. Automated a bunch in well documented PowerShell modules which I trained staff on and was all taken out when I left.

Because the PM said, "If it can be in a script it should be in C#!"

Of course the C# programmers didn't like being taken off of productive work to build infrastructure tooling which was working perfectly well in PowerShell where it belonged. So they quit. So did the remaining DBA staff. All of them.

So the company told their customers this feature was broken and would not be updated in the foreseeable future. That was a year or two ago.

They could just run the script. But they refuse to on principle. So they suffer and the customers suffer. Companies are great!