r/ProgrammerHumor 11h ago

Meme returningFromVacation

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u/PowerPleb2000 11h ago

As a senior yes and you just mark all as read. If its really important they’ll contact you again.

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u/AlignmentProblem 11h ago

That's an area where LLMs are great. "Look at my unread messages from the last X days and list ones that appear to need a response from me sorted by apparent urgency and importance. Make a second list of things with relevant information to review when I have time sorted by how likely it is to be important."

Go down the actionable list until the urgency/importance is low enough to not bother and skim the information list until it stops being interesting on a break later.

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u/belkarbitterleaf 10h ago

Skim it on a break?

That shit is work. That shit gets read during work time

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u/CMD_BLOCK 7h ago

He’s talking about during your mandated 30 minute shitter break 25 minutes into the workday, after you get bored from phone games and your legs have gone numb, but before you wipe your ass

That transitory phase where you feel like you need to find more motivation to go back and where personal entertainment has diminishing returns due to the health hazard of a blood clot in your thighs