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Oh man, last week we had a small outage. Database queries took much longer than normal. I just so happened to be doing ad-hoc querying on the same table at the
by sa46 3y ago
Oh man, last week we had a small outage. Database queries took much longer than normal. I just so happened to be doing ad-hoc querying on the same table at the same time.
“Luckily”, the problem was unrelated to my querying but two coincidences are proper scary.
- dylan604 3y agonah, unless you were the intern, you should be safe it's like Star Trek where you're fine unless you're the one wearing the red shirt
- ashton314 3y agoIf I ever run a company, all the interns will get red shirts
- ok_dad 3y agoThink about the optics of your funny joke. You’re saying you’ll advertise that the interns are replaceable fodder. Even if that’s true, it’s quite a dick move.
- PNewling 3y agoIt also could have just been a joke, not one they were actually going to put into practice...
- dylan604 3y agoSome people just come across as the type of person totally not any fun to hang out with.
- ok_dad 3y agoI’ve seen enough brainless execs and startup founders around here that you have to take stupid ideas like that seriously. I hope it was a joke, but it’s not very funny for an intern.
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- DiggyJohnson 3y agoYou definitely do not have to take stupid ideas like that seriously. Simply your life.
- dylan604 3y agoA little more credit to people for making a funny and a little less assumptions that people are that boneheaded would make the world a better place to be sure. I know for one, I rather enjoy being able to see the humor and having a laugh rather than getting all enraged and venting on the internet to show some sort of self perceived superiority.
- ok_dad 3y agoNah the ones spewing self perceived superiority are the folks who would call interns red shirts or make other off color jokes that end up hurting others and don’t even know it.
- mst 3y agoOur last batch named -themselves- "minions" and there's still little yellow dudes everywhere in the images they posted to internal comms platforms. I agree that some care would need to be taken to ensure that the redshirts felt like active participants in the joke rather than the butt of it, but at least in a reasonably informal environment it could, in fact, be very funny -to- the interns themselves. (though as tech lead, I always make sure that there are a decent number of jokes flying around directed squarely at me, which probably helps set a baseline of how seriously to take such things - and if in doubt about any particular joke, I just aim it at myself ;)
- ethbr1 3y agoOr acknowledging that interns perform a valuable role and celebrating their selfless sacrifice of their very lives for the good of the company. That we should all die such a noble corporate death, at the hands of a colleague possessed by strange galactic energies.
- zer00eyz 3y agoInterns for the Crimson Permanent Assurance... If you know you know, if you dont: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO9OFJNMBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO9OFJNMBA
- V-eHGsd_ 3y agoThe contractor badges at google were red until at least 2015. And as it was explained to me, it was not a coincidence.