Category: work

  • Agent of the Company

    Agent of the Company

    I’ve definitely heard plenty “what the fudge” type of last-moment language moderations.

  • Ask Me Almost Anything

    Ask Me Almost Anything

    I expect that everyone may break the build at some point, but not everyone can get the boss to swear at them.

  • How Sure Are You?

    How Sure Are You?

    It’s even better when the conflict is impossible: “So you detected the issue 3 hours before it started?”

  • In the Dark of the Night

    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.

  • Unblocking

    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!

  • Stand In For Real

    Stand In For Real

    Just imagine how annoyed I am every time there’s an issue in that code.

  • Documented Pattern

    Documented Pattern

    How often are we supposed to read that stuff again after we implemented everything?

  • Strongly Encouraged

    Strongly Encouraged

    So it’s not required, but here’s a report showing your team’s participation levels so you can feel bad about it quantitatively.

  • Think of the Children

    Think of the Children

    Surely the desired take-away was not to make us more sympathetic toward the threat actors, but…well…I guess if I make their job harder that’s job security?

  • When Push Comes To Shove

    When Push Comes To Shove

    There must be at least one person on the internal security team that’s really happy when a bad security incident happens if only because then they can get more folks to prioritize their hygiene efforts.