We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made
For some reason I had a feeling of &quot;The Apartment, from Billy Wilder&quot;<p>It seems that he helped everybody to solve their problems and doubts for years. If this is not &quot;being able to work in a team&quot; I don&#x27;t know hot to define it.<p>After the years, this created a demigod, they drive him crazy and overworking and when the stream of favors eventually stopped people got angry (because &quot;he ownes you infinite whishes&quot;?).<p>Of course starting from scratch helped, but the efficiency increase can be explained also in part because people got a clear message: &quot;If they let go the rock star, nobody is safe from being fired. Better we stop playing politics and schemes, say that all was Ricks fault, fix our shit and have something, anything simple, to show tomorrow&quot;<p>Buying code is also a symptom. Displacing responsibility to an external company is a common &quot;covering ass&quot; strategy.<p>I could be wrong, of course, I don&#x27;t have all the data but... the man helped you for years. I understand that didn&#x27;t ended well, but... didn&#x27;t deserved some respect? What is the point on criticizing an easily identifiable former coworker on internet?