New kinds of workplace bullying:

  • Hog the upstream resources coworkers need, keep tight control, so they can’t fully own their code and their work slows or stops.

  • Mock downstream users for not understanding your system, or for “using it wrong.”

  • Refuse to talk with downstream coworkers who use your work, claiming the code is “self-explanatory” and they should just read it.

  • Write code with no comments; build a framework with no docs.

  • Use Cursor to crank out a pile of messy code and make others read it and clean it up.

  • Change code that others depend on at will, with no proactive sync and no docs.

  • Create fancy “clever” classes and lots of extra wrappers, then force others to use them. One wrapper should solve at least 3 real problems; otherwise, don’t add it.