Here’s why I can demand the things I do at work: I walked into my current job after the other person running the place had been let go.

There was no documentation of any kind. The hosting company was shit-tier. Some important parts of the infra I didn’t even have log-ins for and had to break into them or rebuild them. Everything was designed with the sole goal of saving money with no other thought or consideration. If there was something that was 100x worse but 10% cheaper, that’s what was used. Also, my predecessor was negligent and attempted to do more than they actually understood how to do. And was not well-liked, to say the least.

Since they had already been canned I had zero training, as already mentioned no documentation, and no preparation. There was no one to ask anything substantive of and no one to help me get started. It was all me.

And I rocked it. Maybe one of 1,000 of people in my field could’ve done what I did while keeping the actual product up in an extremely fragile and insecure environment.

It was admittedly rough for a while but now the company is in a much better place (hosting-wise and more metaphorically).

So that’s why I can and do send snarky emails to recruiters. I can roll that way because I can do what I do.

In general, I’d probably advise against following my example.