Post AMqfmFRVDNC6o7Fa0u by jc@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #AMqZTS4NRbFSk55Udk by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:11:15Z
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"Hi, can you do this?- Well, I can, but most likely stuff will break completely so I really dont recommend it."Do it anyway, I really really need it"*does it**shits break*"Why is this broken? Fix it now"
(DIR) Post #AMqZnwnIv7nVpBsIzI by minespatch@poa.st
2022-08-24T08:15:11.284738Z
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@selea Story of my life. My father thinks I'm a technician.
(DIR) Post #AMqZpxJrwFWc2643xg by cobra@fedi.vern.cc
2022-08-24T08:15:20Z
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@selea bofh arc
(DIR) Post #AMqbQU3nmnX9xKWzYm by paul@notnull.click
2022-08-24T08:21:26.652931Z
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@selea ultimately followed with: "No, I didn't ask you to do that at all" or "You didn't fully understand what it was I wanted. I meant do it this thing that's likely to break things then just make it not break things"
(DIR) Post #AMqbQUYzuoUHW57uBU by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:33:10Z
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@paul That is exactly how it went.
(DIR) Post #AMqbb6v4AD71N4Vow4 by sotolf@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:35:06Z
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@selea @paul Which is exactly why I demand any changes that I don't find a good idea to be in writing, with a reply from me "this is not a good idea, but I'll do it if you take full responsibility for it"
(DIR) Post #AMqcQuFeVYV18lq6K0 by paul@notnull.click
2022-08-24T08:36:19.878393Z
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@sotolf @selea I do that too... but then they never respond in writing, leave it a few weeks, then ask "How are we doing with that change I wanted to happen?"
(DIR) Post #AMqcQuqAJnhqy0vGEa by sotolf@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:38:18Z
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@paul @selea Then I go to my manager, get him to talk with them, I don't do something without a written confirmation, I've done so twice and ended up with theater for weeks where I got nothing done, and my manager luckily has seen it too, and he agrees that usually when I say something is not a good idea, likely it isn't. Not that I'm never wrong, but I have a decent idea about what will break shit :p
(DIR) Post #AMqcQvGOkGgqHNCD7g by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:44:28Z
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@sotolf This was a customer that really really needed this to be done TODAY.But well, in three weeks I dont have to deal with this anymore@paul
(DIR) Post #AMqccrOSxWq3kgf6R6 by sotolf@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:46:42Z
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@selea @paul Well they wouldn't use a day to write a mail though? Or to make a ticket?
(DIR) Post #AMqchtMT4QcpIq7udc by selea@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:47:31Z
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@sotolf "they like to call in so they can talk to an ACTUAL person"@paul
(DIR) Post #AMqdF7MM2wYCH1uuSe by sotolf@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T08:53:35Z
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@selea @paul I have learned that what people really mean when they say that is "I don't want a record of this, so I can't be held responsible for what I'm doing" So I'm stubborn when it comes to it. I don't know, it might make me a hard person to work with, but I have been burnt by it often enough that I have figured it's better being a hard person to work with than to be responsible for stuff that I said from the getgo is a bad idea.
(DIR) Post #AMqfmFRVDNC6o7Fa0u by jc@social.linux.pizza
2022-08-24T09:22:00Z
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@selea it's the service (usually IT) customer's version of the "having a cake and eating it, too" paradigm and funnily enough the way my former boss used to communicate withy colleagues and me.