The Daily WTF

One of the fastest ways to get promoted in certain environments is through attrition. When a key player leaves, someone needs to step up and take over their work, somehow.

Well, at Antonio‘s workplace, the tech lead on several projects abruptly quit. This sent the Project Management Office into a spiral, as that one developer’s tasks were on every critical path on their Gannt chart. This four-alarm panic escalated all the way up to the C-suite.

And that’s how Antonio and a bunch of other developers got pulled into a series of meetings to turn them into “bug hunter-killers”. Garth, the head of the PMO, laid out their mission.

“The root cause of the bugs are architectural flaws which have not yet been addressed. So we need a team that’s going to go in, and salvage this project.”

“Are there any unit tests?” Antonio asked. “Before we go on a

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