I'm not forgetting that fact, I'm simply choosing to ignore such people. They're not really what the industry is about. That's not in the spirit of a healthy society. That's just leeching.

Good luck to them, but they're not going to occupy time and space in my mind.

> They're not really what the industry is about.

We'd like that (I'd like that), but resume-driven choices are a very large driver of technology direction, unfortunately.

It means those of who want to build something very maintainable and very stable using the most boring (stable, secure) technology possible are often outnumbered.

And underpaid.

Sigh. Tell me about it :-/

Maybe it's just my organization, but I see the behavior across the corporation far more than I'd like, and inevitably these people move on leaving a complex mess in their wake that long term support staff have to deal with.

We seem to mostly manage to avoid that in my department, but we have a very low turnover.

Sounds rough, buddy! Sorry to hear that. I hope you're being well compensated.