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Currently working at a small manufacturing business that is drowning in the "we've always done it this way..." mentality and I just hope I can get out of here before it bites them in the ass.

Anyone got experiences with technical debt or outdated IT practices snowballing into a complete disaster? Surely companies can't limp along indefinitely... right?

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[–] username_1@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Indefinitely? No. For 30 years? Yes. So shut up and just duplicate the files on those diskettes if you really need them to be readable.