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New Management Wants to Train Random Dude to Replace Essential Programmers, It Backfires

Management doesn't have any idea what you do; let's just get that out of the way. Sure good managers might be great at that higher level of planning, business relationship, and organizational-navigating junk… but when it comes to the actual production? When it comes to what you do? It's all just numbers and words on a spreadsheet. 

And let's be real; it doesn't matter—nothing really matters in a modern company, so long as the money machine goes brrrr, that line on the chart goes up and investors make a continually exponential profit on their initial investment. 

But… it matters to you; you don't want to end up unemployed because some organizational decision (completely out of your control) put a spanner in the works and convinced the company that they'd be better off not paying your (relatively) measly salary. 

That's where new owners come in. Once your company has been sold, you'd better run for the hills. They're not even going to bother looking at those numbers and words. They're laying off everyone.

(NEW OWNER enters stage left. NEW OWNER wants to make as fast of a return as possible on their investment. NEW OWNER believes that the best way to do this is to replace existing expensive employees with a new, lower-paid one.)

Anyways. That's the intro; enjoy the original post below, shared to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by Redditor u/Edymnion.

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Posted by Brad Dickson
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