was very poorly considered, and no maintenance was
ever done on it except for daily care and feeding -- which quickly grew to
consume all of the previous engineering team's day.

When the previous engineering team was shown the door, the entire system had
no maintenance and no path forward. It's an epic management fail, but ...
let's just color me cynically and sarcastically surprised that I used
"management" and "fail" in the same sentence.

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traf68
Worked for rs in the early 2000s. The culture was pretty cutthroat and it was
the chiselers and greasy guys who moved up.

I worked as a dc tech during the .com bust recovery period and the level of
incompetence and the personalities I encountered led me to leave < 6 months.

Any decent SA from my generation can code a one-off virtualization base
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