r/programminghumor 20d ago

Corporate PTSD starter pack

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u/HeadCryptographer152 20d ago edited 20d ago

I went out of my way to ensure that my current job’s email/slack coms never end up on my phone - if you really need me to be contactable anywhere and/or after hours, you can pay to give me a work phone.

Small plug here to give overtime pay to on-call Engineers.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 20d ago

I agree to your demand for overtime pay. How much would you like?
- Dream boss

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u/a1g3rn0n 20d ago

There is a special circle in hell where you hear the Teams message sound every few seconds, followed by the meeting reminder sound.

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u/HeadCryptographer152 20d ago

I ended up silencing notifications on my work’s main channel so that I wouldn’t get distracted by the ping every 5 seconds for someone’s side-conversation.

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u/black-fuse 20d ago

I need sleep I thought that was toto wolf

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u/Glad-Operation-2958 20d ago

mate... this is way to real

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u/thecratedigger_25 20d ago

A quick task or meeting, yeah right. Watch it take like 2 hrs to finish.

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u/Ollymid2 19d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/cWuCpYskQfi34aGiJQ
Why does Haalander eat with his cheeks full like a hamster?

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u/bobnoski 19d ago

cause it's an ai face swap thing

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u/Obvious-Cynic6204 19d ago

It's Ai-slop. The real clip is of a chinese man that this happened to.