The Holiday Purge: Firing the Creator of the Spaghetti Code

Right before the holidays, the boss announced that the company needed "fresh blood."

With a wave of her hand, the HR manager fired me—the very person who had built the company’s tech from the ground up alongside him since I was just an intern.

But what she didn't know was that the code I wrote back then was an absolute mountain of spaghetti code. Aside from me, no one on earth could decipher what the scattered comments actually meant.

Later, she brought in ten senior experts. Staring at a hundred layers of nested if...else statements, they fell into a collective, stunned silence.