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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 02:49:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   It seems every company I've worked at has a person who looms large in their legend.
   Like, they're often the person who built the core systems, everything was originally their design, but they left recently and in their absence they've had to hire like 5 more people to try and take over all their responsibilities.

   I think next time I'm gonna track down that person, find out where they moved to, and go work there instead

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 02:52:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     Pretending here the answer isn't "you had a 3x engineer and made then work like they were a 20x engineer and this burnt them out in like two years and now they're doing woodworking in a log cabin on the top of a mountain in Montana and if you mention computers to them, they'll shoot you in the face"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 02:59:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Parsingphase

     @parsingphase spotted the burnt out engineer

   • Parsingphase (parsingphase@m.phase.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 02:59:27 JST Parsingphase

     in reply to

     @foone Wait, that’s a career option?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 04:52:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Benoit

     @_CuriousBen good point. It could just be one super-engineer running all around the different companies and I've been inadvertently chasing them for 20 years

   • Benoit (_curiousben@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 04:52:33 JST Benoit

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     @foone maybe it was the same person all along...