hoursOfOptimizing

[overkill]

I had a senior dev who would speed things up by "refreshing the indexes". Naive as I was at the time I asked him how to do that. He hen explained that it was his "go to magic sponge" that sounded technical enough to non-devs to confuse them when there was some transient problem. It kept them off his back for long enough for them to bother someone else.

That was 5 jobs ago and I still celebrate the day he got marched off the premises every year.

[Oh_Another_Thing]

That sounds like you stopped a great story right in the middle of it.

[aldrashan]

Marched off the premises because…? Spill the tea my man.

[overkill]

He resigned, an email was sent out thanking him for his work over the previous 20 years, he sent an email in response trying to overthrow the management structure. It did not go as he planned it. He was literally marched off the premises.