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Re:Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won'... by dotancohen on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:22PM (#29488366) 

  > I could see not wanting to support a tool.
I had one time written a small tool to reformat a CSV file for one of the office workers. One day she comes to me to make some change to the tool, but I was extraordinarily busy with my real work - and I only came in that day because there was a fire burning that I was best suited to putting out.

So my refusal to drop the emergency that I was fixing (on my day off) in order to modify this tool that had already saved her probably tens of hours of tedium, let to resentment and ultimately to me being fired from the place.

I'm in a much better place now ))

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Re:Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won'... by behnamoh on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:47PM (#29488692)
>> So my refusal to drop the emergency that I was fixing (on my day off) in order to modify this tool that had already saved her probably tens of hours of tedium, let to resentment and ultimately to me being fired from the place.

Man, we live in a society… glad you are in a better place now!

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Re:Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won'... by dotancohen on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:20AM (#29494431)
Yeah, the people who could appreciate me, the developers and developer management, were ultimately less influential than an administrative staff member. And this was a software business, writing software for clients. Not a software division of some larger entity. One grudge is far more powerful than a chord of appreciation.
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