That's your problem. You keep the fixes for a rainy day when production is down and the business is losing $10m an hour.
>Yeah boss I can fix it, but how much is it worth to you since this isn't in my job description.
Re:The skill that never goes obsolete
by ForTheKidz on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:29AM
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That's just poor management, IMO. The good ones will have your number in their cell phone to call when the stuff they shipped breaks (or even better, allow you to take the time you need to not ship broken code to begin with). Plus it doesn't take much time in the industry to realize that shipping a broken product is a far worse look than shipping slower, and that the faster you can fix a broken product the less money you'll bleed.
If only your experience was universal in that regard! I once had that role in an early-career job -- but I was looked down upon by peers and management because I was doing mostly maintenance work. The "good" developers, in their minds, were the ones shipping the most new features -- the irony being that those features would then blow up out in the field, at which time they landed on my desk to turn them into production-worthy code.