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Suddenly various AWS services start making sense, - EBS : Elastic Bathroom Stalls - ACL : Active Coding in Loo - API Gateway : Always Poop Interactively ...
by inertial 9y ago
Suddenly various AWS services start making sense,
- EBS : Elastic Bathroom Stalls
- ACL : Active Coding in Loo
- API Gateway : Always Poop Interactively ...
- IoT : Inconvenient Office Toilets
The article is full of instances like :
> The most horrifying moment of my employment at Amazon was the time I was using the toilet and a coworker began talking from the stall next to me. He asked me why I had not responded to his very pressing email [...] What email could be so important that it could not wait five minutes for me to use the bathroom?
> ... He began tapping on the wall between our stalls ...
> I regularly saw people bring their laptops into the bathroom, where they would sit on the toilet and write code
> I heard people take phone calls while mid-business
- booleandilemma 9y agoSo could my phone interview with Amazon have taken place while my interviewer was on the toilet?
- jsmthrowaway 9y agoCan’t speak for Amazon, but I did hear a SWE phone screen in progress in a Google bathroom once. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
- DanBC 9y agoOne good norovirus outbreak would soon stop that behaviour.
- Tharkun 9y agoWhy would anyone put up with that sort of madness? If my employer can't even let me shit in peace, I don't want to work for them. It's not like programming jobs are scarce...
- brianwawok 9y agoSounds like it was coworkers not the boss. And if you quit every job with an awful coworker, I am not sure you would have many jobs left ;)
- Tharkun 9y agoBosses tend to create (or encourage) this kind of behaviour. This is either an infrastructure or a management issue. If there aren't enough toilets, your infra sucks. If you need to discuss work while taking a dump, management sucks.
- brianwawok 9y agoSure, culture is part of this. But just an annoying guy talking to you in the crapper? Maybe can't blame that one...