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Originally Posted by markelphoenix
Wait, employee did what? If y'all got done dirty that buys a lot of forgiveness in my eyes.
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I don't think they've elaborated on it too much, but the impression I got was that the server code for Hero Lab Online (and maybe as far back as RealmWorks) wasn't written properly, which is part of the reason for all of the outages. And it sounds so far like it wasn't anything malicious, just an employee who didn't quite make the bar (and boy am I familiar with that situation...), but when your flagship product keeps going down, it's not good.
Honestly, it's one of those situations where being nice can really come back to bite you, since an underperforming developer (or worse, one who looks to be putting out good output only for it to turn out their code is buggy and needs to be rewritten) not only puts you in the hole for their wages, but also for the cost of fixing their work. You want to give people a chance, but you have your company to look out for.