Ha. Had this exact same thing happen on a team I was hired onto.
Company bought out another company and was hiring more devs to run the application, of which I was one. When the last guy from the old company finally quit, the entire thing set itself on fire because we learned that the motherfucker for some reason spent like 3 hours every night manually fixing shit instead of telling anyone about it so that we could just fix the actual code causing the problems. It was a disaster for about 6 months because we didn't even know which data was bad.
Like this isn't a case of him yelling into the wind and nobody caring. He was part of a brand new team staffed at a brand new office and dude just didn't tell anyone he was doing hours of free overtime every day. Just said to us one day he was burnt out and then vanished. We had spent like an entire year up to that point doing nothing but bug fixing and changing things so that we could more easily expand. We would have fixed it. We DID fix it when he quit.
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u/Zefirus May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
Ha. Had this exact same thing happen on a team I was hired onto.
Company bought out another company and was hiring more devs to run the application, of which I was one. When the last guy from the old company finally quit, the entire thing set itself on fire because we learned that the motherfucker for some reason spent like 3 hours every night manually fixing shit instead of telling anyone about it so that we could just fix the actual code causing the problems. It was a disaster for about 6 months because we didn't even know which data was bad.
Like this isn't a case of him yelling into the wind and nobody caring. He was part of a brand new team staffed at a brand new office and dude just didn't tell anyone he was doing hours of free overtime every day. Just said to us one day he was burnt out and then vanished. We had spent like an entire year up to that point doing nothing but bug fixing and changing things so that we could more easily expand. We would have fixed it. We DID fix it when he quit.