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>>todsac+(OP)
For most of my career I opportunistically cleaned up tech debt without being asked, because I wanted to. I felt ownership. Now that I'm in a Jira-based job with micromanagement and no autonomy I don't do a single thing I don't have to do.

Discretionary effort used to be the bread and butter of my career. Now the bureaucratic and social project management overhead required for any change makes things too annoying to be worth doing if I don't have to. I don't care if the product works long term, I don't care if the company succeeds long term, I just do my tickets until I find the next job.

>>add-su+b9
"Never ask permission to refactor" has caused so much trouble in my career, specially because folks think they - somehow - have an enlightened path to good code. They don't - it's just easier than reading and trying to understand (which they don't)