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New My step-mom was an IT VP at a fairly big place...
She rose up through the ranks after starting with computer stuff in the 1960s.

Near the end of her career she told me that there was a serious school of thought that one should fire the irreplaceable people in IT because they were too dangerous to the company. Yet somehow those irreplaceable people were never IT managers. ;-)

That tells me that the processes inside the company are broken, not the people, but there you are.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Mr Tilly used to say the same thing
always look out for number one and don't step in number two
New Till-ayyyyyy!!!!!!
--

Drew
New Yeah, we tag teamed that meme
But it is a bit more complex. A manager should never let an employee hold the company hostage. So if that happens, it is management's fault for not providing a backup person to share those critical responsibilities. On the other hand, if a person creates a project only they can maintain, and embeds themselves and refuse to knowledge transfer ,then they can't be trusted and need to be fired.
New People can be single points of failure too
Don't fire them. Just move them out of their current positions and into something else to force the knowledge transfer.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
     iwethey -- - (boxley) - (33)
         Oh man. :-( I hope the downtime is short. Good luck!! -NT - (Another Scott)
         Ouch. That sucks! :( Fast returns. -NT - (mvitale)
         Damn. Cringer fossed for you. -NT - (mmoffitt)
         Sucks. -NT - (pwhysall)
         Good luck, Box! -NT - (a6l6e6x)
         That's just plain Rude. Truly uncivil: the Companies which you'unses keep! {afloat} -NT - (Ashton) - (8)
             Ah no. - (boxley) - (7)
                 Yup - (pwhysall)
                 So then.. - (Ashton) - (5)
                     My step-mom was an IT VP at a fairly big place... - (Another Scott) - (4)
                         Mr Tilly used to say the same thing -NT - (boxley) - (2)
                             Till-ayyyyyy!!!!!! -NT - (drook)
                             Yeah, we tag teamed that meme - (crazy)
                         People can be single points of failure too - (malraux)
         Good luck, box. -NT - (hnick)
         Yech. Godspeed with a new gig. - (malraux)
         Luck with the job hunt lad. I'm sure you'll land on your feet post-haste. -NT - (jake123) - (16)
             Had a good interview with app director today, 2nd interview with CIO and IT director friday -NT - (boxley) - (15)
                 Nice. Knock it out of the park. -NT - (jake123)
                 Excellent, good luck! -NT - (malraux)
                 Fingers crossed! -NT - (Another Scott)
                 hope I didnt blow it, went into clockbuilding mode for a while. -NT - (boxley) - (11)
                     I is an Architect start July 11th iwethey++ waiting on paperwork -NT - (boxley) - (10)
                         Nice, congrats! -NT - (malraux)
                         Woot++ -NT - (mvitale) - (1)
                             and Yay -NT - (drook)
                         [peter likes this] -NT - (pwhysall)
                         Excellent! The world needs clock makers and architects, but the latter probably pays better! :-) -NT - (Another Scott)
                         Excellent! -NT - (a6l6e6x)
                         Good job! -NT - (hnick)
                         Congrats! -NT - (mmoffitt)
                         That was quick.. ya got them to Decide (without the cha. cha. ? :-) -NT - (Ashton) - (1)
                             of coarse this was done over the phone, first day of work might be "ah! fek a wrinkly!!!" yer fired -NT - (boxley)

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