🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Incompetence looks exactly like martyrdom if your vocabulary is technical enough.

I woke up at 1:27 PM today.

I checked my phone. I had missed a 1:00 PM meeting with the CIO.

My Slack status had been set to "Away" for nine hours.

He sent a message: "We're waiting on the call. Where are you?"

I didn't panic. I didn't apologize.

I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and typed:

"Sorry! I was up until 4:30 AM manually re-indexing the SQL fragmentations. The automated script failed and I didn't want to risk data corruption during business hours."

(I was actually up until 4:30 AM watching a 4-hour YouTube documentary about airplanes).

His reply came in 10 seconds:

"Wow. Thank you for catching that. Please, get some rest. We can reschedule."

The Lesson: Management doesn't know what we do. If you use words like "fragmentation" and "corruption," they won't fire you. They’ll thank you for your sacrifice.

Incompetence looks exactly like martyrdom if your vocabulary is technical enough.

I’m going back to bed

 

[Krimson]

I woke up at 1:27 PM today.

I checked my phone. I had missed a 1:00 PM meeting with the CIO.

My Slack status had been set to "Away" for nine hours.

He sent a message: "We're waiting on the call. Where are you?"

I didn't panic. I didn't apologize.

I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and typed:

"Sorry! I was up until 4:30 AM manually re-indexing the SQL fragmentations. The automated script failed and I didn't want to risk data corruption during business hours."

(I was actually up until 4:30 AM watching a 4-hour YouTube documentary about airplanes).

His reply came in 10 seconds:

"Wow. Thank you for catching that. Please, get some rest. We can reschedule."

The Lesson: Management doesn't know what we do. If you use words like "fragmentation" and "corruption," they won't fire you. They’ll thank you for your sacrifice.

Incompetence looks exactly like martyrdom if your vocabulary is technical enough.

I’m going back to bed

Had a tech tell an operations manager we would get a piece of equipment back up when the flux capacitor came in. Ops manager tells plant manager who knows the movie, had to buy the ops manager a bottle to keep him from writing my guy up.

 

[TerryP]

Had a tech tell an operations manager we would get a piece of equipment back up when the flux capacitor came in. Ops manager tells plant manager who knows the movie, had to buy the ops manager a bottle to keep him from writing my guy up.

What was the bottle? (A question few thought.)

 

[Krimson]

What was the bottle? (A question few thought.)

He was a dickel fan if I remember correctly, it wasn't much. Dickel was just a few miles up the rd and a lot of locals liked it