Dev Loudly Complained About Older Colleague, Who Retired Not Long After
The Register, Thursday, April 10th, 2025
The graybeard wasn't doing a great job and morale improved once he left. How would you handle this?
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Aidan" who told us about his experience working on a software development team charged with delivering a major project to a tight deadline.
"We had to hire new people to do all of the work," Aidan told Who, Me? His team was also augmented with a couple of "experienced" developers from elsewhere in the organization.
To Aidan, "experienced" meant "high-ranking, so expensive," and therefore perhaps best suited to mentoring and guidance rather than hands-on coding.