I once was promoted and fired immediately after making the first decision in that role: We just had started a system rewrite when a newly hired 19yo pitch behind my back, that he would have a better solution. When I caught wind of it, I took him aside and explained him, why his idea actually would not work, especially for our existing customers. he just said "I still want it". For a few days he refused to work with me and would reply any question with "will you reconsider my idea?" after a week I've had enough and reported him to HR. Stunningly I was let go just a few days later for "Hurting a colleague's feelings". Apparently my boss — who had promoted me just days earlier — had identified me as a spy: Ex-colleagues forwarded messages to me, in which he accused me of having joined the company with malicious intend — and issued an order to ignore all my work, my mentoring, my code. He also claimed that I was certifiable insane.

The 19yo, who had no education in any STEM field and was just in coding for 1 year (myself at that point: 16 professionally), was given the task to replace my work with his idea. more than 2 years later they haven't released anything and burnt millions in the process with a team of roughly half a dozen coders. The irony: The app is trivial. An experienced developer can create in a mere few days or weeks flawlessly. and even that isnt necessary, as you can buy the very same app in many fashions as white label solutions in India and Pakistan — as all it wants to be is a voip app.