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When you become the single point of failure for critical systems

I am the only person who knows how our legacy billing system works and I am getting calls at 2am every week when it breaks and I cannot quit because they depend on me entirely.

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You're the only one who understands the system, and it's trapped you in endless middle-of-the-night calls.

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