The Vacation Knowledge Transfer Paradox

Knowledge transfer Vacation anxiety documentation Senior developer Junior developer Mentoring Code handover Team dynamics Project management

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The Vacation Knowledge Transfer Paradox

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The pre-vacation documentation marathon—where senior devs frantically explain every obscure codebase quirk, deployment ritual, and that one server that crashes if you look at it wrong. Then the inevitable horror upon return: discovering your meticulously crafted knowledge transfer resulted in precisely zero progress. The junior dev was too terrified to touch anything without your divine approval, and now your inbox contains 47 "quick questions" that could've been answered by reading the docs you spent 9 hours creating. Classic case of knowledge transfer theater!

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