Re:Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?
by rantwasp on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:05AM
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that’s okay. they get brought in and save the day when the new guy messes up. the classic definition of win-win: you’re off the monster you created and doing things with exciting technology AND you are a hero for saving everyone on a regular basis.
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Re:Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?
by AndyMcConachie on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:35AM
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It sucks being the old hand as well. I was once sent to a customer's site to fix a deployment that had taken too long. It was for a telco product that required a couple racks of UNIX machines and Cisco routers.
They had sent a new guy with essentially no training and he had not done a bad job. He was just new and needed time to get up to speed. When I started working with him he clearly knew what he was doing. But we got everything working 1 day after I showed up, because I had been deploying this product for a few years already.
Management basically praised me and shat on the new guy. I felt like crap and took new guy aside. We became friends, but this hurt his review later on.
Re:Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?
by noobiemcfoob on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:22AM
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Oh, this hurts so hard. I'm going to go cry now.