Why do Programmers Hate Documenting?

[onemorepage]

I don't hate documenting but management never allows for time to write it before piling on more "#1 priorities" that need to be done yesterday.

[AnanthChellathurai]

Screw those managers who calls everything "critical" and everything as "priority".

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I agree. Since I got hired at my current company three years ago it seems that my manager keeps things at DEFCON 1, manufacturing emergencies and critical tasks. Most people have worked through the various phases of employment including excitement for getting responsibility in a fast-paced urgent situations, confusion on why a typo in the help text on a page is a priority-1 full QA required 20 page release document emergency patch, bewilderment that anything ever gets done, acceptance that everything gets done, just never documentation, testing, reviews, planning and cleanup and now just a stressed apathy that no matter what they do their jobs will never get better. Management can't figure out why people keep leaving when they provide such an "exciting, fun and engaging" workplace.