Unethical programmers don’t last

Tech leads, managers, or other people who play games may win temporarily, but eventually they pay the price for their actions.
#softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment

[@ljadf]

Sadly, they usually get found out, identified as a manipulator, and promoted to chief manipulator.

[@raccoons_stole_my_account]

One word, HR.

[@M4r10h]

In my experience, incompetent leaders get going up. Not once have I seen an incompetent leader get karma

[@HealthyDev]

Within a single company, sure. Over their career...

[@ForgottenKnight1]

@@HealthyDev When you work for a decade or more for one company, that's most of your career. Incompetent bosses tend to stick to one company and kiss ass as up as they can.

[@prajjwal1010]

​@@HealthyDevsuch people tend to create toxicity for new comers

[@raccoons_stole_my_account]

Sadly agree. Being fired for fucking up something huge means nothing, you'll still get hired elsewhere. Maybe even promoted aka peter principle. I am now stuck with horrible code that senior staff engineer has abandoned and just said cya, someone else take care of this shit.

[@tropicten]

Unfortunately this often doesn't happen quickly enough. Our very charming director, who was also a complete sociopath, managed to survive for years avoiding accountability. The people who worked for him paid dearly.

[@marcoelhodev]

Not everyone gets Karma. Sure, some people do, but some do get Karma way too late and way too little. If you feel like you're being exploited by an incompetent leader, just get out, no matter how hard it might be.

[@bjornarnols5905]

Thanks for the words of encouragement. Be brave and GTFO.

[@monterreymxisfun3627]

It sounds like the best place to be is a heads-down individual contributor. Anonymity has its rewards.

Unethical programmers do just fine... they go on to implement amazing things like advertisements in the Windows 11 start menu and forced updates on everything that isn't Linux.

[@livenotbylies]

Thats part of the beauty of software. Objective reality catches up

[@aleksdeveloper698]

Unfortunately, it will not happen. They will get found out after 2-4 years or even more, they fire new developers, make the job a living hell for other developers and eventually they just LEAVE the company.

[@kozlovskyi]

Eventually, they got hired into another company showing their great achievements.

[@richard975]

politically agressive managers rise up the ranks

[@nerdobject5351]

Which of your videos was this clip from? I’d love watch the whole thing.

[@nerdobject5351]

I found it.

[@HealthyDev]

Yeah it's pretty cool KZbin added the ability to link shorts to the video they are from. I try to do this with all the ones since early last year. Glad you found it.