Year: 2026
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No Explanations Given
Those couple hours in the morning before anyone else shows up are nice and quiet and productive. And I get to drive to work at a time when there’s no bad traffic. (Unfortunately, at this time of year, it is apparently also a time that robins are swooping across the highway.)
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Ask Your Manager
There are definitely times when being a manager is more stressful than not. See also: review season in general.
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Ketchup Interpretation
Clearly I meant: use the ketchup you already have for both sides, not: add more ketchup so that both sides have too much ketchup.
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The Internet Is Down
Even more than when I made this comic, basically everything I do for work involves connecting to a remote resource. And while I now have a laptop that can run off of a battery, when my power (and thus internet) went out this week while working from home, there wasn’t much I could do and…
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Already Cold
Someone set the thermostat in my current office space higher a while back, and now sometimes I don’t even need my lap blanket! I imagine someone might feel too hot at some point, though, and it’ll have to go back down to a more standard office compromise temperature. Then it might be time to finally…
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Punchline
And now I have to think about the calculus of if hitting an innocent bystander on accident is worse than hitting your brother on purpose.
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How Did They Not Know?
I guess I can’t complain that they didn’t realize when we didn’t realize it either, but it feels like it should have been easier for the customer to have this epiphany.
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How Did We Not Know?
The good and bad news is that it was an issue that would only happen for this specific customer’s uncommon configuration, and something only they could control and fix. There were people who were aware of this issue, but those specific people weren’t on the call during the night, and those of us that were…