"good morning, I'm about to destroy the backend" is exactly the energy I'd welcome from a colleague frankly.
I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months
"good morning, I'm about to destroy the backend" is exactly the energy I'd welcome from a colleague frankly.
I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months
What is this magical job where two typos land you a day off, no questions asked?
A typo in software development or other shell based work could completely ass womp a system in ways that could lose a company lots of money.
Oopsies on prod systems, even with an outage window, can really fuck shit up. Seemingly small mistakes can quickly snowball into systemwide outages.
It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"
One of those is Amazon prior to chatgpt, the other is Amazon a few weeks back.
I'm at one of the latter, so I feel this in my bones. I've watched what should have been an innocent config change snowball into a pair of VM clusters shitting back and forth for 2 hours. Implemented strict change control that day. Kind of a pain, but the team learned a lot that day!
We literally have both and our new Tech Lead is absolutely terrified that I can deploy shit into prod right from my command line. I think it's hilarious (because yeah, it's total shit, but our Dear Leader was a complete muppet who refused to listen and prioritise doing things right, so here we still are). Also our GitLab is the free licence because why pay for the thing that takes care of our entire codebase, eh ? 👌
Not deploying the backend doesn't make it a day off.
The coworker probably got the message right and knows about some integration problem the poster doesn't know about.
tbf this was a pretty big typo if anything deserves a day off its this
In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.
Do it and I destroy your backend.
Have you dropping tables like you're Mankind in 1999.
Narrator: The deployment proved that it wasn’t a typo after all.
"Today"is a Friday before public holidays
"Alright, I need all of the leads on this call to confirm: go, or no go."
"Go."
"Go."
"Let 'er rip!"
"Hold up--"
Confused the "deploy to PROD" with "deploy to staging" again huh?
Oh, look at Mr Many Environments here, he's too good to test on prod like the rest of us do.
Every groups have a "testing". Some also have a "production".
Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!
I worked with someone who used them as "thank you".
it was....a challenge.
What's wrong with that? It's a common gesture for thanks in many places irl... that's the first thing i think when I see that emoji, and I'm from a western culture...
I think pray, because that's what you have to type to use it.
You can also type "thanks" or "please". Both of those show the hands together emoji.
they do now because people are using it incorrectly.
not once in my life have I groveled a "thank you" and I don't intend to start via text.
I shall inform south asian people that they are using their hands wrong.
considering I'm not in south asia, and don't interact with anyone from south asia it's not something that I have come across, like ever.
use it all you want though, I'll just always remember the douche bag that used it 500 times a day and associate anyone that uses it like them to the douche bag.
thanks 🤲
Emoji aren't strictly prescriptive with their meaning. They are generic symbols that can have many meanings in different contexts and cultures.
The name of an emoji is more a suggestion than anything else.
Are people also using eggplants improperly? And, you're proud to never have said thank you?
I don't use eggplant as a euphemism for penis. I just say penis.
I don't grovel like a simp. I say thank you and please like an adult, because I am an adult.
You sound like a child who is so desperate to sound like an adult that they obsess over meaningless things like using the correct emojis.
🤡 🖕
this means I'm sorry if it is clear enough.
Hmm, very childish.
well if you're going to accuse me of being childish I would hate to pass the opportunity up.

In my culture it means go fuck yourself.
It's the first emoji that comes to if I type tha...
So I use it like that
I just imagined it's like a buddhist "peace be with you" kind of thing
I think it's Indian English. Wild guess from the sentence structure, vocabulary used and the selected colour of the hands emoji.
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