Professional courtesy of the janitor

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One of the nicest things about being a senior developer is getting called into a situation where someone has been struggling and you can help out.  Someone gives you a call and you help as a professional courtesy.  I love the feeling of looking at a few lines of code someone has been struggling with and type I'm a few characters to get it working in a few minutes. "I've been working on that for days!  I've read every forum post and couldn't get it working! Thanks!". Then I can act all cool and strut away.  I'm a geek, but I'm the best geek. One of the worst things is seeing a jumble of spaghetti code and trying to make it work.  I do this most often.  I clean up messes.  I'm the janitor.