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That was awesome all! đ„ł Thanks for all the extra hours, the extra push to make this release happen! Letâs never do that again. I have career-long struggles with many things, and deadlines and big bang releases definitely make an appearance in my top 100. This struggle started probably around
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âHalf of the people at this company should be fired. Theyâre not productive, donât care about anything, and show zero sign of ownership. We should never have hired them.â This was what I heard from my new boss on my very first day. Welcome to the company indeed.
To sign up, please use this sheet. Apparently, not everybody saw my previous message so let me repeat: to sign up, please use this sheet. Thank you! Cross-posting for visibility @here And @here @all âChatGPT, write an engaging slack post with the message âto sign up, use this sheetâ that
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âYo, why did you not attend the event?â âI didnât see the point, and had more important things to do.â âBut it was mandatory!â âSo whatâs going to happen now?â âWell, I got this little notebook here with a list of names, see? What Iâm going to
âSo what do you think, Zef?â Ok, so this is embarrassing. Even though being present in a meeting and paying undivided attention is one of my virtues, I failed this time. I let myself get distracted by (admittedly hilarious) Slack messages from a colleague. While I shouldnât have, I
I sometimes lie awake at night mentally preparing for a critical meeting. Iâm a slow thinker, so when surprising things happen, thereâs a risk that I effectively blank out. My coping mechanism is scenario planning. When I say A, how will others respond? If they respond with B,
Internal note: Until the announcement of the business pivot during the next all hands meeting, this document is to be considered confidential. Test chat transcript follows, copied verbatim. Frank: Hello there đ Letâs get to know each other a little bit. My name is Frank, and Iâm a professional
Tell me about one of your most strongly held beliefs. I will crush it. Set fire to it. And then laugh at the moon, all evil-like. Sorry, I let myself go there for a second. Iâm good now. So. I started a fun little project. Working title: Zefâs
During the second world war, soldiers would land on tiny islands of Melanesia in the south-western pacific ocean. They would airdrop cargo, and trade with the indigenous people that had never been exposed to any type of technology before. Then after some years, after the war ended, soldiers and their
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If feedback is a gift, why does it keep punching us in the face? âYour test coverage didnât grow as much as we asked, you should care about quality more.â âYou should be be better prepared for our meeting.â âYou should care enough about this company to pick up
After wrapping up my last meeting of the day, I walk back into the open space. Somewhat disoriented Iâm trying to recall at which desk I dropped my bag at the beginning of the day. As I sit down, I glance over on the large external monitor to my
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Letâs play a little game. Iâll call these games The Empathy Games. Itâs like The Hunger Games, except itâs pretty much unrelated. I think. Rather than everybody but one dying in the end (or two, I suppose â I watched the first movie but didnât care
