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Oh man. A previous employer had someone come around and spray for bugs monthly. I told them to let me know when it was going to be so I could stay away for an a
by kstrauser 2y ago
Oh man. A previous employer had someone come around and spray for bugs monthly. I told them to let me know when it was going to be so I could stay away for an afternoon. The exterminator insisted it was perfectly safe and wouldn’t bother me. Yeah, well, immune stuff runs in the family — my older sister had lupus — and it did, in fact, bother me.
As a test or something, he came around spraying without telling me. I was in my office when I felt my sinuses starting to swell and my chest started tightening. When I walked out into the common room and saw him smiling at me with a “see, told you it’s your imagination” grin, my coworkers had to drag me outside because I was ready to kill him.
Look, man, I’d freaking love not to have asthma and other allergy stuff. I don’t like taking handfuls of antihistamines. I’m not trying to be a pain in the ass. I just don’t, like, enjoying dying.
- fredrikholm 2y agoThere's few things that makes me dislike someone quicker than when they dismiss the suffering of others, or use their own circumstances to dismiss others inability to "just don't X". Look, man, shut up.
- mcny 2y agoOr trivializes other people's work. Like when a lead developer or a manager wants to chime in and say the story point estimate is too much and it should be smaller. > Just do x, y, z Ok then you take the story. > Oh but I don't know frontend. But you know the estimate is wrong? I hate the word "just"
- chriswarbo 2y ago> I hate the word "just" This is one of those things that someone pointed out to me, I agreed with them and have since tried to avoid saying "just do ...", "why not just ...", etc. However, that means I now really notice it from others. sigh
- Thorrez 2y agoI generally try to avoid the word just. However, I'll still occasionally use it during a code review, when I see a large amount of code that can be replaced by something much simpler and smaller.
- mcny 2y agoI am all for it if you are willing and able to sit down and follow through. Or at least show me the way. I can't read minds.
- Thorrez 2y agoI pretty much always give a detailed description, or example code.
- wink 2y agoAn ex-coworker introduced the rule that every time someone said "You just..." he increased his estimation by 1 level (standard fibonacci planning poker). That was like 15 years ago and I've at least mentioned that rule to every team I've been a part of ever since. It usually works.
- Thorrez 2y agoI try to avoid "just" during planning. I just [lol] use it during code reviews.
- axus 2y agoAlways disliked that word. Replace it with "simply", then we can debate how simple it is.
- me-vs-cat 2y agoSimply just basically don't.