Load Bearing Developer

You know that ONE person on your team who's basically holding the entire codebase together with their bare hands and sheer willpower? The one who wrote that critical legacy system nobody else dares to touch? Yeah, fire them and watch your entire infrastructure crumble like a house of cards in a hurricane.

They're not just a developer—they're a load-bearing wall in human form. Remove them and suddenly nobody knows how the authentication works, why that one API endpoint needs exactly 3 retries, or where the production database password is actually stored. The entire company grinds to a halt because Karen from HR thought "we could save some money on headcount."

It's giving "single point of failure" energy but make it corporate tragedy. Godspeed to whoever has to reverse-engineer their uncommented code after they're gone.