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I was a team lead. Painstakingly created documentation for everything.
New boss in town. Says destroy it all and stop making more.
Stopped being team lead. That shit was demoralizing. Years of work down the drain for no reason.
People who enforce cultures of tribal knowledge are either idiotic or covering for their own incompetence.
What a moron.
My company hired me specifically to help get everything from the only guy who knows the system documented.
Well, that's how it started, at least.
I need a documenter!
I have a head full of stuff that hasn't had time to be documented, and being a single point of knowledge isn't job security, it's a major risk.
My code gets documented. But so much infrastructure is just held in my head as senior SysAdmin. Wherever possible I just have a ride-along "up-skilling" (works like a RAID mirror for my brain).