Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s pretty common for people to have specialized knowledge that’s only in their heads. In the software biz it’s pretty much assumed that losing an engineer means losing some important knowledge, too.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if the company is functioning properly this is absolutely not the case

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess I’ve never worked for a company that functions properly, then. They must be pretty rare.

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      • dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it’s so rare that it basically only exists in well run companies and well run FOSS projects (which are few and far between)

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      • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it is

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      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They stopped existing when the relationship between companies and their employees became a directly adversarial one.

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even if absolutely everything is documented there is still the loss of familiarity and comfort working with a given system.

      Having perfectly documented processes still might mean that a new engineer could take multiple hours following instructions to do what the person who originally built the system managed off the top of their head in fifteen minutes.

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    • such_haxx@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In these advanced and complex spaces loosing an employee and starting someone new is like starting a university degree. Shure, the knowledge exists and you can “just read the books”. But that takes a fuckton of time in which the new guy is not productive AND needs someone else time to teach them.

      So it’s a really big loss.

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      • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        documentation and knowledge sharing my dude

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh shit where can I get a job with one those properly functioning companies? Because my job right now I got was because I was able to figure out on the interview what the guy before me was doing and the same thing happened with my previous employer.

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  • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ol’ Bus Factor

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    • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      HR told us we have to call it the Lottery Factory LMAO

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      • tslnox@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why? What’s bad about busses?

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