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Welcome To The Trial By Fire

documentation Legacy code Onboarding Training Workplace Tech debt Tribal knowledge New hire Proprietary software Sink or swim

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Welcome To The Trial By Fire

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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."

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