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motbus3last Thursday at 7:46 PM0 repliesview on HN

If you are in the industry for enough time you certainly crossed with a boss who said that it needs to be fixed in 5 minutes or else even if the problem was not caused by you and the solution clearly needs more than 5 minutes. (The root cause was because someone had only 5 minutes to do something too)

I once had a job that my boss ordered (that's the word he used) me to do the wrong thing. Me and the rest of the team refused except for one guy who did it because he was certain that 9 out 10 people were wrong while he was the only right one) The company spend 2M USD in returns, refunds and compensations in a project that probably didn't cost that. It was just a patch! How he could've possibly know - said the dismissed manager.

(Now he works for oracle, why not right)