For my ungrateful CTO, revenge was served hot... - Revenge Story

Alice Preston spent six years building bulletproof API infrastructure at Mountainfire Technologies. Then her CTO made a decision that would destroy the company: reassigning her critical integration work to a developer who "ships features faster."
"He moves quicker than you," the CTO said casually, as if speed was the only metric that mattered.
Alice stepped aside. She handed over her documentation. Seventy pages of architectural decisions, failure scenarios, and carefully calibrated systems designed to prevent disasters.
Three days later, the CTO burst into the engineering floor: "Why are all our integrations broken?"
This is the story of what happens when leadership confuses velocity with value. When organizations optimize for speed over stability. When the people who prevent disasters are dismissed as bottlenecks—until the disasters actually happen.

This is a story about:
✅ Technical debt and its devastating consequences
✅ The difference between shipping fast and building sustainably
✅ Why documentation matters (and why it only helps if you read it)
✅ How to know when to fight for your value—and when to walk away
✅ The long-term cost of dismissing experienced engineers
✅ Organizational failure patterns in tech companies
✅ What real revenge looks like in corporate America

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