Recently I’ve realized something: the following are all new forms of workplace bullying.

  1. Hogging control over upstream resources colleagues need, leaving them unable to fully control the code they’re responsible for and slowing or even blocking their work.
  2. Mocking downstream users for not understanding the upstream systems you designed.
  3. Being dismissive about communicating with downstream users (colleagues) who rely on your work, insisting the code is complete and they can just read it.
  4. Writing code without comments and building frameworks without documentation.
  5. Using Cursor to crank out a pile of crap code and expecting others to read it and digest it.