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Death by Technical Debt (piefed.social)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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Currently working at a small manufacturing business that is drowning in the "we've always done it this way..." mentality and I just hope I can get out of here before it bites them in the ass.

Anyone got experiences with technical debt or outdated IT practices snowballing into a complete disaster? Surely companies can't limp along indefinitely... right?

Update: lmao since I made this post, I've found out about A LOT OF SUS SHIT beyond our IT practices. Would love to spill the tea but there is no series of vagueries I can say beyond "the fact that we hired a pedo is the last of our worries" without doxxing myself :|

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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They cannot limp along indefinitely, but they can do so for decades. That's exactly the problem. It's a common 'turkey problem'. In my experience, whether the company can get out of the swamp depends mainly on two things: whether bosses/decision makers understand anything at all about technology, and whether they are willing (and, hierarchically speaking, able) to have their skin in the game for big, important changes.

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