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One thing that I had to learn to do in my last job was to never offer a quick fix that required future work/refactoring to be done. The product owners were always willing to do the quick fix, but never willing to pay the price later. The code turned into such a steaming pile of crap, and I honestly felt super bad for whoever was going to take over. I still have to look over my shoulder every once in a while just to make sure he isn't going to hunt me down.
"Don't go too crazy with the design, this is just quick to get it out, this is a one time deal" - management
Half a year later...
"Well if you would properly design components up front, it wouldn't be so hard to extend the code" - management
Well if there were some sort of god forsaken process in place, with assigned tasks, priorities, iterations, and conventions, maybe everything wouldn't be a last second shit show and there would actually be forward progress on a project instead of throwing shit over the wall and hoping everything lands in the correct places.
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