Comment by gbvb

Without sounding like a curmudgeon, "An even more egregious form of negative work is a developer who is stuck using out of date programming practices AND has a large amount of influence at a company. " can happen when new developers come up with ways of re-writing applications without understanding the full problem statement or spending the time to understand the existing codebase. Usually, they might have worked on a small to medium sized projects and show up to work on a project with millions of lines of code with teams in different geographies and expect to change things across the board. When the same explanation has to be given the 15th time, you can turn into a toad and start saying "NO" first. :)