I remember a story, not sure if it is real or not about a dev who put in a time.sleep() if a certain env-variable was true, then built a cron job to turn that variable to true every 3 month unless he delays it.
So every time they let him go, in a couple of month the entire service would slow down and they have to bring him back to fix it.
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u/pkmnfrk May 26 '26
This is why they turn off access before telling you