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Turns everything to maximum and sits listening to the result for a few moments So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like.

*Turns everything to maximum and sits listening to the result for a few moments* So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like. I feel I should be responding to this like a horror movie with clowns in it.

qznc 5y ago
xkcd provides the narration: https://xkcd.com/2544/ https://xkcd.com/2544/
- djmips 5y ago
  Boss randomly: “can we talk?”
- Kosirich 5y ago
  My dad likes to do "Can I call you?" which I might see later, after which he won't respond which for me essentially means I will go through "worst case scenarios" in my head over and over..
  - cushychicken 5y ago
    I had to have that convo with my parents. "When I see something like 'Can I call you?', it implies to me that there's something really important you need to tell me, that's too important to send over text. I know you don't mean it that way, but it's very scary to me in the absence of more information. Can you please include a reason why you'd like to talk next time you text?" Once my folks understood that they were putting across the subtext of a death in the family, they started adding why they wanted to call!
    - shaunn 5y ago
      I had this same conversation with my father last week. He is a low-frequency communicator, so when I get the "Call me" text I feel I have to take a deep breath and brace myself for thew news.
      - cushychicken 5y ago
        I had to have the conversation twice; the first time I got really mad at my mom for sending me "Call me as soon as you can". She didn't really get why I was so upset - probably because I was too upset to think clearly about why I was. The next time it happened, I clued my folks in to the subtext of that message for people of my generation. They were horrified and apologized profusely. They've also never done it since.
  - vollmond 5y ago
    Yep, same thing with voicemails. "Hi X, it's your dad, call me back", and his voice was always dour/sad in just normal conversation...
- kingcharles 5y ago
  Ugh. Yesterday I got up, was sat around in my office at 8:30am in my underwear when I get a text from my lawyer: "We can have a chat after the court hearing this morning". Court starts at 9am. I'm an hour from the courthouse. I'M NOT EVEN DRESSED. I saw this judge once imprison a man for 30 days for laughing at a joke the judge made.
anyfactor 5y ago
Slack message on fast repeat is giving me PTS(D).
- ASalazarMX 5y ago
  Ten years ago I would have had fun with this, but now it also gives me anxiety. Needs a GMail and WhatsApp sound to complete the dread.
  - anyfactor 5y ago
    In remote work environment compliments are generic and criticisms feel brutal. I feel like 80% of the time the notif sound is associated with bad news and deep down we are all Pavlov's dog. I don't care how people percieve no immediate reponses, because it takes me sometimes a lot of effort to see what I mucked up this time. I feel like a solution to this would be performance or surprise bonuses. But that is never going to happen.
    - ASalazarMX 5y ago
      I'm an atheist, but the philosophy of Buddhism (westernized as Mindfulness) makes a lot of sense for me: we suffer because we desire, and we suffer less when we desire less. I had to unPavlov myself when my phone rang during home office. As soon as it rang, I assumed it was trouble and wished it would go away. Now I just answer, and if it's trouble, at least it doesn't bother me more than it should. Same goes with positive desires. I had to learn to enjoy working from home as long as possible, and not stressing because we would return to the office eventually. Home office has ended for me, but the last couple of months were less stressful because I stopped wishing for it to last more.

*Turns everything to maximum and sits listening to the result for a few moments* So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like.

qznc 5y ago

xkcd provides the narration: https://xkcd.com/2544/ https://xkcd.com/2544/

djmips 5y ago
Boss randomly: “can we talk?”
Kosirich 5y ago
My dad likes to do "Can I call you?" which I might see later, after which he won't respond which for me essentially means I will go through "worst case scenarios" in my head over and over..
- cushychicken 5y ago
  I had to have that convo with my parents. "When I see something like 'Can I call you?', it implies to me that there's something really important you need to tell me, that's too important to send over text. I know you don't mean it that way, but it's very scary to me in the absence of more information. Can you please include a reason why you'd like to talk next time you text?" Once my folks understood that they were putting across the subtext of a death in the family, they started adding why they wanted to call!
  - shaunn 5y ago
    I had this same conversation with my father last week. He is a low-frequency communicator, so when I get the "Call me" text I feel I have to take a deep breath and brace myself for thew news.
    - cushychicken 5y ago
      I had to have the conversation twice; the first time I got really mad at my mom for sending me "Call me as soon as you can". She didn't really get why I was so upset - probably because I was too upset to think clearly about why I was. The next time it happened, I clued my folks in to the subtext of that message for people of my generation. They were horrified and apologized profusely. They've also never done it since.
- vollmond 5y ago
  Yep, same thing with voicemails. "Hi X, it's your dad, call me back", and his voice was always dour/sad in just normal conversation...
kingcharles 5y ago
Ugh. Yesterday I got up, was sat around in my office at 8:30am in my underwear when I get a text from my lawyer: "We can have a chat after the court hearing this morning". Court starts at 9am. I'm an hour from the courthouse. I'M NOT EVEN DRESSED. I saw this judge once imprison a man for 30 days for laughing at a joke the judge made.

anyfactor 5y ago

Slack message on fast repeat is giving me PTS(D).

ASalazarMX 5y ago
Ten years ago I would have had fun with this, but now it also gives me anxiety. Needs a GMail and WhatsApp sound to complete the dread.
- anyfactor 5y ago
  In remote work environment compliments are generic and criticisms feel brutal. I feel like 80% of the time the notif sound is associated with bad news and deep down we are all Pavlov's dog. I don't care how people percieve no immediate reponses, because it takes me sometimes a lot of effort to see what I mucked up this time. I feel like a solution to this would be performance or surprise bonuses. But that is never going to happen.
  - ASalazarMX 5y ago
    I'm an atheist, but the philosophy of Buddhism (westernized as Mindfulness) makes a lot of sense for me: we suffer because we desire, and we suffer less when we desire less. I had to unPavlov myself when my phone rang during home office. As soon as it rang, I assumed it was trouble and wished it would go away. Now I just answer, and if it's trouble, at least it doesn't bother me more than it should. Same goes with positive desires. I had to learn to enjoy working from home as long as possible, and not stressing because we would return to the office eventually. Home office has ended for me, but the last couple of months were less stressful because I stopped wishing for it to last more.