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by codeonfire 4023 days ago
>you don't even know where to find credentials to log into its production systems since it was setup by some employee in the middle of the night a year ago that is no longer there.

Recently I was searching for some report generating code that my team had been voluntold to maintain. I spent a day trying to find the code that generated and uploaded the report. Once I finally was able to get in contact with the last person who had worked on it I found that a developer in India was manually running and uploading the report every week. Why? Because job security.

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> voluntold

That's excellent.

We use that term at my company pretty frequently, although I'd just heard it less than a year ago. Seems to be making the rounds.
Oh man, I can relate so much its painful.