In my first engineering job ever, I worked with this snarky boss who was mean to everyone and just said NO every time to everything. She also had a red line: NO RELEASES ON THE LAST DAY OF THE WEEK. I couldn't understand why. Now, 10 years later, I understand I just had the best boss ever. I miss you, Vik.
I still have a 10-year old screenshot from a colleague breaking production on a Friday afternoon and posting "happy weekend everyone!" just as the errors from production started to flood in on the same chat. And he really did just fuck off leaving us to mop up the hurricane of piss he unleashed.
There’s someone from a company I worked at a few years ago that pumped out some trash on the last week before their two month sabbatical (or three?). I remember how pissed I was seeing the username in the commit because I recognized it from their “see you in a few months” email lmao
