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I'm aware of at least one project at $work that will definitely break at some point that no one but me knows how to fix. Despite my best efforts to leave breadcrumbs to good resources and an extensive ReadMe, I suspect if I'm gone they just won't care enough to fix it and let employees go back to doing things manually (based on what happens right now when I'm not available to jump on a fix immediately). I wonder how many inadvertant "dead-man switches" like this there are out there where the loss of specific employees can cause a disproportionate amount of damage entirely by accident.

[jjmarr]

If the project has so little impact that they won't bother maintaining it, that's not really job security.