Tribal knowledge Memes

First day on the job and already discovering the company's sacred tradition: figuring out proprietary tools through trial, error, and existential dread. Documentation? That's just a myth we tell children to help them sleep at night. The real onboarding process is being thrown into the deep end while your manager watches with that special gleam that says "I suffered, so shall you."

The evolution of a developer in its natural habitat. Junior devs naively believe documentation exists somewhere in a mythical folder. Meanwhile, senior devs have transcended the need for written instructions because they've internalized every painful bug, every midnight hotfix, and every legacy codebase nightmare. After years of trauma, they've become one with the code. They don't read documentation—they remember the mistakes that led to its creation. The knowledge isn't written down because it's etched into their souls alongside their will to live.

Ah, the ancient art of developer revenge. That guy who said "it's all in the documentation" before quitting? Yeah, he left you hieroglyphics. Nothing says "figure it out yourself" quite like documentation that requires a Rosetta Stone to decipher. The best part? He's probably sipping margaritas somewhere, giggling every time he imagines you staring at his "comprehensive notes" with that thousand-yard debug stare. This is why exit interviews should include a documentation sanity check and why we all secretly fear the phrase "Bob was the only one who understood that system."