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not the OP. at certain levels of management yes. I work for a 100 Fortune company. I use Slack and the internal tracking system. The bosses above us use email only, and if the servers go down. there goes the email, so yes they are so mighty they contact us by personal cell phone(well, the secretary of the week does) because learning a new software package is below them.

not the OP. at certain levels of management yes. I work for a 100 Fortune company. I use Slack and the internal tracking system. The bosses above us use email only, and if the servers go down. there goes the email, so yes they are so mighty they contact us by personal cell phone(well, the secretary of the week does) because learning a new software package is below them.

not the OP. at certain levels of management yes. I work for a 100 Fortune company. I use Slack and the internal tracking system. The bosses above us use email only, and if the servers go down. there goes the email, so yes they are so mighty they contact us by personal cell phone(well, the secretary of the week does) because learning a new software package is below them.

In a similar situation we had a CIO come in trying to be a hard ass. Cancelled a 6 year wfh (pre covid even) policy of 3 days/week. People had moved 2 hours away, would come in to work one day, stay the night, work the next, and not return until the next week. It worked really well. Anyways this guy comes in and says on a Friday that starting Monday absolutely NO WFH. At all. HR got involved and made it clear, NO EXCEPTIONS. So what happens when our servers, DB, data processes, fuck up for our public facing agency that requires 24/7 uptime? No one answers. We had started leaving our laptops at work because if we can't wfh during business hours we're definitely not going to do it for emergencies and be perpetually on call. No one is available. Once a guy answered that lived 2 hours away. He told him he would need to be paid OT for the entire travel time and the CIO agreed. He drove in, reset a server, then went home. Took maybe 15-30 minutes. I personally don't feel it's worth it but the guy did get 1.5 pay for driving basically. The CIO never did change that policy and in the years since I left something like 60% of the agency has turned over. People crying int he hallways (even when I was there) and they had to fire all the top brass, including the CIO, to try to right the ship and it didn't work. Last I heard they hired a "morale booster" position that does fuck all.

The Final Cut as Mother_Soraka Mother_Soraka 12:05 PM Alright Justin fair play. Your email checks out. If my manager actually faked a Bored Panda profile just to catch me, Id almost have to respect the hustle. Yeah, I can answer your questions. This whole thing has been a trip. Have there been any updates since you shared the post? Monday morning was a masterclass in corporate backpedaling. The "clarification" email went out, but before that, my manager did the walk of shame over to my desk. He tried to act casual, but you could tell he'd had a rough weekend. He leaned in and said, "About the phone policy... I realize my initial email might have been open to misinterpretation." I just looked at him. "Misinterpretation? Of 'NO EXCEPTIONS'?" He got a little twitch in his eye. "Let's just say emergencies require flexibility." He never mentioned his 17 missed calls. He never mentioned that the server outage was holding up the quarterly reports for the VPs. We both just let the word "flexibility" hang there in the air. He knows I know. A coffee appeared on my desk a few minutes later, courtesy of a coworker. The solidarity was real. Your post had over 30k upvotes, why do you think so many people found it engaging? Because everyone has had that manager. The one who makes a sweeping, draconian rule on a power trip, then acts shocked when it blows up in their face. It's the hypocrisy that gets people—the WFH boss demanding on-site staff can't even have a phone for emergencies. It's the ultimate "rules for thee, but not for me" story. Were there any comments you found useful or helpful? The comments were a goldmine. The thread on legal discovery was nightmare fuel; I had no idea my personal phone could be confiscated in a lawsuit. The discussion on on-call pay was even better we're literally using it to draft a proposal for stipends and company phones. And shout-out to everyone who said I should've driven home first. I respect the chaos. Is there anything else you would like to add? Just that this is what happens when you treat your IT team like children. We will follow your stupid rules with a precision that will make you regret ever writing them. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. ( ◠‿◠ ) Thanks for reaching out. Let me know when the article is up. -M_S P.S. The best part? The server that went down hosted our email system. The irony was delicious.

I am a product-focused lead software engineer with extensive experience working in technical roles at early-stage startups, SMEs, and global commerce leaders. Currently building: - An AI companion app for people with arthritis (askclara.com.au), recently nominated for a Webby Award. - A data-driven procurement platform revolutionising the sustainable building materials industry. (rebuilt.eco) - A personalised AI Answer Engine for enterprise (coming soon) _____ I'm as comfortable designing technical architecture and building end to end technical solutions as I am in technical leadership and product discussions. I have considerable experience and interest in product led growth, UX, mobile apps, and building enterprise-grade GenAI RAG systems based on a foundation of using strong evals and tests to inform decisions and measure quality. I have worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, and Barcelona on platforms used by Apple, Vodafone, Tripadvisor, and Westfield. I was the first technical hire in Asia Pacific for HomeAway.com before its $4 billion acquisition by Expedia, and I was the technical lead for Precept, a Barcelona-based startup that received funding from Google's DNI to combat visually distributed misinformation using natural language processing. I've been founding engineer at three startups including my own, a vinyl record marketplace which I grew to over 30 paid partner record stores and user base of 100k. Tech Experience: Languages & Core: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, SQL Front-end: React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Tailwind Back-end: Node.js, Express, Prisma, GraphQL, Django, FastAPI, Postgres, MySQL Testing & Analytics: Playwright, Jest, RTL, Vitest, GA4, Mixpanel AI/ML: RAG, semantic search, vector databases, prompt engineering, OpenAI, Anthropic, LLamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK, Langfuse DevOps & Infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud, Vercel, CI/CD, Git, Docker Based in Sydney, Australia. Dual Australian/U.K. citizen

Yes, more tests will be needed. I scheduled a follow up apointment for her in two weeks, just as the doctor instructed on the discharge papers. He will order more tests at that time, but the surgery is defynitely happening, there's no doubt about that. For now, though, she's just very happy to be going home. Vero and Alex are on their way home with her now, and I'm about to go get the groceries she'll need for her new diet.

Yes, more tests will be needed. I scheduled a follow up apointment for her in two weeks, just as the doctor instructed on the discharge papers. He will order more tests at that time, but the surgery is defynitely happening, there's no doubt about that. For now, though, she's just very happy to be going home. Vero and Alex are on their way home with her now, and I'm about to go get the groceries she'll need for her new diet.

hi I am Nikita from Russia

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“These fields,” she breathed, voice hushed, “how untouched they seem—each blossom a vow of serenity.” For a heartbeat, the world felt whole, and her wearied spirit remembered gentler days. Golden strands of hair spilled over the pale crowns, as though sunset had found refuge among the flowers.

sometimes after a lengthy slowly day that who i am a person that has lost my patience with everything living and not living and lived or never lived ever or maybe all or some of them at the same time sometimes and so after all of that which i need something different anything different completely different will be nice but anything different from the thing i experienced is needed at this moment and that is the bare minimum for which who i am need right now and the thing i need is silence

sometimes after a lengthy slowly day that who i am a person that has lost my patience with everything living and not living and lived or never lived ever or maybe all or some of them at the same time sometimes and so after all of that which i need something different anything different completely different will be nice but anything different from the thing i experienced is needed at this moment and that is the bare minimum for which who i am need right now and the thing i need is silence

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