Mick From The Confluencial
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Wednesday 23 September 2026 16:12:35 GMT
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JB :
Gary quit in 2018
2026-09-23 21:54:38
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Jenna Abroad :
My dad is the only one who knows the code of a crucial legacy system at a very large, recognizable, important company. He’s being kept on at the company at full salary with stock options just to keep that system running. He’s 79. He gets on calls to shoot the sh*t with his coworkers and terrorize his 35 year old boss who can’t fire him
2026-09-23 18:31:18
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fizgig :
I'm working with a company that has critical systems in on prem Visual Basic 6 and Access 2000 "apps"
2026-10-13 02:21:17
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Sasha_and_Elliott :
What do you mean we have to purge old data?
2026-10-13 02:39:02
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beamer :
hey what's this laptop in this filing cabinet labeled do not touch? surely it's not running payroll, right? and we definitely have the password to it, right?
2026-09-23 17:13:18
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NewtMaz🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇧 :
at my last job I got given solo responsibility for a legacy system that was older than me because no one else wanted to touch it. no one could train me on it either. awful. but the upside was I got exempted from productivity measures because there was no way to do them for that system
2026-10-13 18:22:43
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cthulhutentacles :
the server is a PC from 1999 in a broom closet
2026-09-24 06:59:36
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fluffygreycat19 :
You could spend 3 years and 30 million dollars replacing it with a modern enterprise solution and you’ll get to the end of that process and realize you need to switch back
2026-09-23 18:38:46
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andreajmilo :
And then when you do eventually replace it, people will actually be begging for the legacy system back
2026-09-23 23:19:24
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joemoma925 :
you CANNOT remove the USB stick
2026-09-24 19:31:54
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entomember :
We chained “the binder (version 2)”to a support pillar. You can’t lose it anymore without compromising the structural integrity of the building. Guess what happened to version 1 that inspired this decision.
2026-09-25 00:06:28
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Matcha :
Gary retired and we are trying to get him back as a contractor.
2026-09-25 00:57:55
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Manicpixiemom 🧽🪦 :
I worked in higher ed tech, there are multi million dollar private schools running software older than me (I’m 40)
2026-09-24 16:59:09
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K :
Our guys name is Gary too deadass lmao
2026-09-23 23:33:27
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kayo :
If you ever do IT in manufacturing this is probably around 75% of the systems you interact with
2026-09-23 22:31:57
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why ry? :
My favorite was, “we’ve customized this so much that the vendor can no longer help us.”
2026-09-25 12:32:50
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Vern :
Gary retired. if we need work done we have to take Gary out to dinner when he is in town.
2026-09-28 04:55:15
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morgan 🪩 :
We tried sundowning our legacy system and replacing it with a new one and the new one sucks so so so so so so so so so bad guys it’s so bad I beg to work with the legacy system daily
2026-09-24 12:31:48
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Jake :
And it’s running off a pc from 2002 covered in an inch of dust and has been running 24/7 for the past 20 years
2026-09-30 13:13:27
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Tetroglyph the Goblin :
Me getting a support call about some custom excel sheet written in VBA Hieroglyphics from 21 years ago
2026-09-24 07:13:07
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Robert White :
My company got bought up. Most systems were replaced. A few exist indefinitely somehow. I work an entirely different job within the new company. I don't wanna be Gary anymore. I'm always Gary.
2026-09-30 13:45:55
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✨️lux✨️ :
this ibm program managed all of carvana's inventory. it still might lol
2026-09-24 15:43:16
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Sam Gillespie :
My friend works county IT and in house software development and he runs into stuff like this all the time. Ancient machines with no manuals and archaic software that have somehow become the lynchpin upon which rests the daily operations of the entire county. One guy knows how it works and goes in and whispers to it like a priest soothing a mad God back to slumber.
2026-09-24 16:35:08
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aslan :
my last manager wrote all of the code. he left last year and im the only one left who kinda knows how it works and im looking for my next job 😭
2026-09-24 19:07:37
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Chelsea Grace :
the drop-down list will only appear if your scroll bar is at the top of the page or you zoom out to 70%
2026-09-25 01:18:27
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