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Of course we don't - Jared is why some workplaces don't suck. Having a dev with enough seniority to force management to do logical things is an incredible asset.

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Of course Jared didn't document anything and made themselves a bus factor. Real success is when Jared makes themself replaceable because hiding detail and making yourself critical is the best way to take a site down when you're on holiday and prevent other team members stepping in and taking ownership.

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- Capitalism offers a perverse incentive in this regard. I have no motive to keep the company healthy, only to get paid. Ensuring I can be replaced benefits the company while harming me.
  
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  Professional integrity. Have you ever worked for a company that got screwed by a consultancy? Vendor lock in and charging scandalous amounts for little offer.
  
  You are paid for your skills and your time. If you're confident in your ability and impact, you shouldn't have to be worried.
  
  I'm not saying sacrifice for yourself for your company, and if they are a shitty company that would replace you with cheaper, get out, but also, giving nothing for the pay you get is a bit dishonest, and then you are no better than them.
  
  Plus, you make the case that hiring people is bad and paying a consultancy is less risky.
  
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  You are paid to benefit the company though. It's literally your job.
  
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- At least he won't be laid off easily like everyone is in last year.
  
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The inmates are running the asylum.

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- It's lunatics... the lunatics have taken over the asylum
  
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  I was giving a nod to Alan Cooper's book "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44098.The_Inmates_Are_Running_the_Asylum
  
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Well, you do you. But I doubt anyone would hire you. 🤷

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Ew siloing

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We all get frustrated with scrum at times, but not all of us use TTS to make a casually sexist skit about it.

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- You’ve turned this into a catch 22. If there were no female characters, you could argue that’s sexist. If the idiotic boss was female, you could argue all of the dumb characters are female so that’s sexist. If Jarod were the only female, that would be sexist.
  
  How does this sketch get rewritten in such a way that it is not casually sexist?
  
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  Good point. I guess you're right, there are no flattering roles. But each of those options you list would have been less on top of existing prejudices.
  
  Making her the (non-technical) project manager whose only contribution is "how many story points is that?", who's then silenced because "this is important!", confirms the typical prejudices about women in tech:
  
  no technical expertise
  
  is not in charge
  
  does not have anything to say that is worth listening to in times of crisis
  
  Especially being talked over. This matches many women's experiences in men-dominated environments to a T.
  
  I'd much rather the technically competent, important but socially weird engineer (Jared) be the woman, or the incompetent boss, who's in charge and calls the shots. Even having no women in the skit would be better than this Cindy role.
  
  Or, weird idea I know, multiple people with different roles being women. 🙄
  
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  What if they were all female?
  
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