Category: work
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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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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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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…
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The Gist
Context will tell us if the F-bombs were likely used in a “heck-yeah!” or a “what-the-heck?” sort of way.
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Early Days
Let’s say we’re still early in some ways and no longer early in other ways and we can all just get along.
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Take One For The Team
If there is one team with all the tasks that really suck, obviously no one wants to be on that team.
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Do You Trust Them?
Sometimes it’s still better to have a human in the loop. One with a stake. And context.