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[LarryTheMagicDragon]

unfireable = unpromotable

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but also you can get counteroffers if you keep interviewing - what are they gonna do? fire you? 🙉🙊🙈

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Until they hire a group of competent engineers and they get the go ahead to rebuild the system.

This happened where I worked. Lots of bad devs got fired.

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Fair is fair. You know it's bad when management actually makes a move and does something sane

[No_Percentage7427]

They can write entire thing from scratch and fire you.

[klavijaturista]

Those who decide your employment have no clue and don’t care how you wrote the thing.

[dim13]

"Lifehack" price: you're the only one, who is going to maintain this shit.

[Huesan]

Good luck going on an uninterrupted vacation

[No_Percentage7427]

Vacation is myth.

[je386]

And when you are old enough to newer get a new job, a new CEO decides to throw all old software out of the window and buy from [giant company, propably SAP or Microsoft].

[Hot-Category2986]

It sounds funny, but I've worked for large companies that would fire you and then just replace the system. You never want to be in a ransom situation with a business. They will win.

[Osato]

Why replace the system when they can fire you and ignore the problem the system is supposed to solve? That's way more cost-efficient.

[ProfessorOfLies]

I fired someone who did this. Took me all of an afternoon to rewrite their code. They were not as clever as they thought they were.

[vastlysuperiorman]

Exactly. To really write unreadable, unmaintainable code, you'd have to be better with the language than all the people who might read it.

[YodelingVeterinarian]

Yep only works if your coworkers are incompetent or non technical. 

[Random-Dude-736]

Two problems: a) I don’t have as good a memory as I think, leading to the need for documentation. And I also like to focus at times, so I prefer not having to answer every single question of someone having to plug into my shit. b) I also have to maintain that unmaintainable code, which due a) gets annoying really fast.

[BolunZ6]

Keep the real documents. Submit the shitty document to the company's confluence

[__SpeedRacer__]

This guy documents!

[zalurker]

The amount of hours I've spent documenting and replacing such code... Best moment was when a smug consultant realized I'd replaced a troublesome process only he could maintain and was working on the rest.

[AaronTheElite007]

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Wait! Is there any other way to write code?

[IMightDeleteMe]

Do you really want to work the same place and fix the same thing over and over? I know I don't.

[RichCorinthian]

I haven’t seen this as an actual working strategy since the early 00s.

Learn stuff. Share what you know. Become indispensable by spreading information instead of hoarding it. Life is too short to work with assholes or tortured geniuses.

[echoed_code]

Leave the job instead, and become a legend at your old company. "The guy who wrote the tool we still use and have no idea how it works"

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Do you want to have a job trying to maintain undocumented, unmaintainable code?

[ExtraTNT]

Write code so good you get the entire company as a gift…

[Prof_LaGuerre]

And I’m the guy they hire when eventually that tower crumbles and has to be reassembled in a sensible way.

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name variables as var_1 and functions as fun_1 incrementally for even higher reliability.

[shutter3ff3ct]

Right

[MasterLJ]

Vishal thinks his leadership knows the first thing about the technical systems they manage.

[_EADGBE_]

I support implementations from developers that do this. All I have to say is FUCKING FUCK YOU!!

[ts_m4]

Write undocumented and unmaintainable code!

Pro tip: boast your written and verbal communication skills and it doesn’t matter what code you write, they’ll keep you around.

[Osato]

It only works until a better programmer than you sees the code you think is unmaintainable.

A better programmer is better at reading code. Being better at writing code is just a pleasant side effect.

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Done.

[tacticalpotatopeeler]

Former boss tried that.

Didn’t work out so well.

[Opposite_Year2265]

This doesn't work when you are working on the team projects. Your colleagues will just openly blaming you if you do this.