I’ve literally written expressions of existential horror in commit messages. No one reads past the preview, so just make sure the first couple lines are on topic
I didn’t stop working when I burned out … I just became a school bus driver. Nothing like a 90% pay cut to spice up your life, but at least now I can’t be replaced by AI. sob
Hey, me too! Although I took a transition job in between as public works foreman for a small village. (Single person doing everything from water treatment to sewer cleanouts, snow clearing to cutting grass.)
“I am totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to three days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap? You know anybody who can network eight connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job? Because if he can I’d like to see him try.”
Plausibility Level: 5/10 Gibsons. Classic overweight, underappreciated IT guy…who runs and is secretly stealing from an island full of deadly reanimated dinosaurs.
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