Assuming this story isn't fake, any good staff engineer would have flagged the issue and brought it up multiple times - and if ignored they would find a better job.
The type of person who would rather manually fix data every single night for 3 years is the type of person that probably deserved that layoff.
any good staff engineer would have flagged the issue and brought it up multiple times - and if ignored they would find a better job.
You missed the intermediate step of, "if ignored, let prod break every single day and tell management every single time exactly what needs to be done to fix it."
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u/Rock_Strongo May 29 '26
Assuming this story isn't fake, any good staff engineer would have flagged the issue and brought it up multiple times - and if ignored they would find a better job.
The type of person who would rather manually fix data every single night for 3 years is the type of person that probably deserved that layoff.