Congratulations On Your Involuntary Promotion

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Congratulations On Your Involuntary Promotion

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That moment when you're promoted to senior dev by default because the actual senior quit. Now you're just a junior with imposter syndrome and root access. The thousand-yard stare says it all - you've inherited 50,000 lines of undocumented legacy code and the only documentation is "ask Dave," but Dave left yesterday. Time to order a stronger drink.

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