Category: work
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Niche Issues
Hopefully it’s not too much of a commentary on my ability to call the right person. I at least feel a bit better when it is not something obvious and other people also don’t have any idea what’s going on.
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As Soon As I Close My Eyes
I often find myself having trouble sleeping while on-call expecting that alert to happen at any moment. How annoying to be the one responsible for messing up my own sleep when nothing happens.
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LAMP Shade
This was based on a conversation overheard soooo many years ago
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So Retro
On the plus side, people assume I know a lot of stuff because I’ve been around a while, and I actually know a lot of stuff! On the other hand, now I can apparently sleep “wrong” once and then I can’t turn my head for a week.
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Full Circle
This feels like a good time for a reminder that these comics are inspired by real life, and not meant to be taken as an accurate representation of real people and events.
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Agent of the Company
I’ve definitely heard plenty “what the fudge” type of last-moment language moderations.
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How Sure Are You?
It’s even better when the conflict is impossible: “So you detected the issue 3 hours before it started?”
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In the Dark of the Night
Thankfully this particular scenario happened some time ago and it’s less common now for another team to gleefully ignore the severity classifications.
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Unblocking
If only they had pinged on that email thread about how blocked they were, we could have pointed to our original response so much sooner!
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Stand In For Real
Just imagine how annoyed I am every time there’s an issue in that code.