Comment by vidarh
3 years ago
"Last time this failed, Bob was the only one who could fix it."
"Bob resigned a few months ago."
"See if he is willing to do some consulting. We'll pay whatever rate he demands."
I still occasionally have past employers call about things years after I left, and if I'd have been immoral enough to pull something like this, those systems could have been full of time bombs.
This mindset reminds me of the policies we use in the dev team at work. Any policy access that I suggest starts with the thought "If future me were to go rogue one day, how would present me stop me?"
But this is about a physical train that's in a first-party repair shop. How will the people who work in the repair shop know to call you, the software developer?