On: How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal

[superuser2]

Companies have business needs to not go down and to not lose customer data, both of which are very real consequences of poor engineering practice.

Managers are also acclimated to the business's practices and may find others absurd. The essay is suggesting that hey would be better managers were they to listen to the WTFs from newcomers.

[humanrebar → superuser2]

Yes, and beyond that, engineers have ethical responsibilities to make sure they follow the golden rule when handling customer data.