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@thelastpsion@oldbytes.space I've definitely heard of/read other examples, but there's one in particular in the form of a blog post about a small company whose IT infrastructure was built by one guy who was hired on in early days, and he worked there for years. Everybody at the company thought he was a genius, because he was single-handedly keeping the infrastructure afloat. Of course he was also the only person with access to anything, nothing was documented, and he left the company without any kind of handover, and the new guy had to decipher his complicated network of highly esoteric solutions that might be clever on a home network, but ate batshit insane as corporate network infrastructure. If I can find that link again, I will definitely send it your way. Who knows how much of it was strictly true or embellished or entirely fabricated (you mean... people like on the internet!?) but it was very entertaining, and you just know these people are out there, especially in the 90s and 00s.