You again?
Ok, this is a bit long...
Once upon a time, there was a guy working here that had been charged with the task of building a specific "infrastructure", that guy was (and still is) very entusiastic about stuff like Ansible, Docker and all that stuff, so he began writing a load of stuff that would have allowed to "rebuild the whole thing at the push of a button".
No, let's ignore that nobody had ever asked for such a feature, or that such feature could be useful only in the case that you are going to do that every 'X' days, with 'X' not very big, otherwise (IMHO) is complete bullshit and it would be a lot better to focus on making backups, checking them and have the infrastructure the most stable and easy to configure, maintain and (eventually) debug.
Anyhow, the guy started with that 'project', writing a huge pile of stuff. Then somebody decided that such "project" needed an "architect" and a "manager", and somebody was tasked to perform such function. This somebody started to asking a few question about some of the choices that had been taken, and this created some "friction" with the guy above. He quickly decided that having a "manager" wasn't a good thing and resigned.
I don't have to say that about 90% of all that stuff turned out to be completely un-documented, un-readable, redundant and basically useless, do I? And that 95% was discarded because the whole infra could have been built in 1 hour by hand and had never been rebuilt since, and anyway a restore of the data is still going to be required.
After some times, during which the infra worked (more or less as supposed, but this is another story), we got the news that that guy was coming back to work on a different thing. And that left me a bit perplexed, besides the fact that he didn't bat an eyelid when he was told that we had basically tossed all that stuff out of the window.
Now, in the course of my "career" (if we want to call it like that), when I decided to switch job I've always done that because a) I didn't agreed with the way the management wanted to do stuff, b) more money/better quality of life or c) my interests/abilities and the company roadmap were diverging. And I've never even contemplated the idea of going back to work for somebody I'd worked for and left, because it made no sense for me.
This fact that some people keep going and coming back has always looked weird to me... You leave because you're in conflict with your "boss" and then you came back knowing that you could end up with the same boss as before? You leave because you're no longer interested in what the company does and then you go back to it?
Ok, a lot of peoples works for a specific company, in a specific field, on specific stuff just because they are paid for it, but if you decide to leave and then you go back, I'm under the impression that the reason is that you can't do anything else... because I can't believe that there isn't anything else.
Davide Bianchi
08/08/2024 10:14
