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Why do kill switches when you can just hog all the work of maintaining some critical part of the infrastructure and make it's functioning and maintenance so opaque and impenetrable that the employer can't replace or fire you without their shit catching fire soon after. It doesn't have to be malicious or illegal.
https://youtu.be/0jK0ytvjv-E
I wish this guy was were actually politically motivated, but he seems to have been just really petty minded person.
Somehow, that's the kinda roles I always land in lol