The most outrageous moments of my career

[volcano63]

There was this project - emulator of 3-rd party equipment. R&D has been begging for it for a couple of years.

There was - terribly written - small sanity test, but R&D kept on begging for the real McKoy.

So, after several months of struggling - with management , FrameWork team , reluctant code reviewers  - and even the customer, , who half way into the project told me the whole ugly truth (undisclosed previously limitations) I had it up and running, and it was added as part of acceptance test. R&D was happy, System Test team was  ecstatic .

But at that point I got fed up, and decided to quit. I know that in North America, the moment you receive or give a notice,  management calls in security whose job is to escort you off the premises. In my country, it is customary to provide a knowledge handover. So, since my emulator stopped running - CLI configuration was blocked, and only RESTfull allowed - I proposed to fix it before I leave. The management decided to re-write the project.

Well, my sources gleefully inform me that the first "replacement" has quit, and there's a second victim to fill my shoes. I left the company 10 months ago...