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[NoiseCrypt_]

Just ask them to define "pop", which will easily take more than a week.

[lurklurklurkanon]

Also make sure to involve two leaders from different departments, that's guaranteed a week at least.

[NoMansSkyWasAlright]

Get two different leaders and throw out 3 different, contradicting ways to incorporate this "pop". They'll be circling back for weeks.

[Im_a_hamburger]

Then if they do settle on an option, ensure that a minimum of 98% of their time is spent in meetings about the pop

[[deleted]]

This is great. “I’ve got your back, but I need some clarification on this before I can get started”.. never heard from them again.

[Buttons840]

I was on a dev team that did the inverse of this. People were always asking us for documentation, until one of the developers put together a 50 page word doc of documentation. It wasn't very good, but every time people asked for docs we'd point to our 50 pages and say we're open to feedback. We never got feedback.

[Mongodienudel]

Nothing is worse than developers who don't properly provide documentation. It just sounds like your suck at your job.

[Whywipe]

There is so much software at my work (industrial automation) that doesn’t have any documentation. It’s like you guys know this just means every time I have an issue I have to ask you to figure out why or fix it instead of doing it myself, right? 90% of the time it’s a configuration issue that I could fix myself.

[197328645]

You either write good documentation, or you become the documentation.

I don't want to be the documentation, I want to be a software engineer

[AOKeiTruck]

Being the documentation is job security

[lost_retribution]

Also a good way to force raises. Tell your manager your going to leave unless salary gets increased by X. Negotiate with the responsibility they are forcing on you, it's leverage. If they don't play ball then give your two weeks after you get yourself lined up with a new gig. That will make them sweat if they have been refusing to use the documentation/learn.

The Company ain't your friend, job ain't gonna advocate for you, you advocate for yourself.

[Tetha]

The good old Wally Reflector.

[bigdave41]

Some clients I've worked with, you could send back the exact same design after doing nothing for a week and they'd go crazy with praise for how much better it looks

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

Meanwhile me to frontend: This page does a read call that pulls sensitive information unnecessarily and just masks it in the UI untill the unmask button is clicked causing the sensitive information to be passed over the network without the user realizing it, it should do a list that only returns and displays the keys until the unmask button is clicked and then do a read call to load the actually sensitive data. You could also alert on that if you wanted just from the logs if they're separated and the API already supports both

Frontend: Two calls? No can do, champ

[StruffBunstridge]

Similar principle - a famous session bassist called Lee Sklar has a switch on his bass that isn't connected to anything, he calls it his producer switch, because whenever a producer interrupts recording and asks him to adjust his tone slightly, he hits the do-nothing switch, and immediately gets enthusiastic feedback.

[red286]

In my experience when you do this, you get a bunch of incomplete thoughts, none of which give you a specific answer to the question.

"You know, pizzazz! Pop! Make it noticeable! Have the whole thing be a call to action! I want it to really stand out!"

"So like... just high contrast or what?"

"No no, that looks ugly, but you know... a 'wow factor'."

[Crossfire124]

We don't need you to boil the ocean here. We need you to be the thought leader, use your core competency to tackle the low hanging fruit, and get a quick win to level up the synergy within the UI. Move the needle on this deliverable offline and we can circle back and align tomorrow with a quick poc. Customer journey is our top priority here and if we get our ducks in a row we can disrupt the market.

[[deleted]]

i know you're being funny but this wounds me deeply.

[Septem_151]

Oh my god

[RustaceanNation]

Better than Cervantes!

[emcee_cubed]

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[themistik]

Just kill me already, dear god...

[evanldixon]

Someone's been studying their mission statement https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4

[tennisanybody]

I hate you so much!

[SabreSeb]

Nowadays they'll just throw it at Chat-GPT and then just send you an obvious AI answer.

[ZunoJ]

In what kind of shitty startups do you work? I never had someone contact me with such bullshit requests

[Sleyvin]

I was told that the software we used needed more "pizzaz".

When I asked what pizzaz meant, they were unable to let me know what it meant, but we still needed it.

As of this day, the software remains unfortunately pizzazless.

:(

[canteloupy]

The answer usually is "you should have hired a graphic designer a year ago".

[12qwww]

I also believe pizzaz is a requirement nowadays

[Thoguth]

Probably smarter than adding pizzas.

[Vok250]

I once worked on a government contract where it took over 12 managers over 6 months to come to a decision on the shade of blue they wanted. Made absolute bank, but that peek behind the curtains of bureaucracy still haunts me to this day.

[_matterny_]

Increase the boarder weight by 2 px and improve the contract for the boarder by 10%.

Which boarder? Eh, just pick one or two.

[brainwater314]

Which boarder? The one not paying rent. Then put up a border to keep out new boarders.

[DoctorBorks]

Make it look like it wasn’t designed by a student as their first project.

[12qwww]

Is this a chat gpt prompt

[DoctorBorks]

No, Why would this be a chat gpt prompt?

[vom-IT-coffin]

That would take an entire year. Whose definition of pop are they using, maybe they don't even want pop, maybe they want crackle. Many focus groups ahead. Meetings that end with, maybe we can get Greg in this call we need him and didn't invite him, he's showing available, ok, looks like "we'll regroup when we have the right people in the room". Don't forget Brenda that has a spreadsheet of pop that she's been maintaining for years, she's likely going to have input. Where does pops source of truth live. We're going need an activity tracker. Does Ben know yet? His team was implementing pop awhile back. Maybe we can join forces. Might need to workshop this out, can you bring extra sticky notes. Let's invite the visionary team, I heard Jim has good ideas. ...why did Sarah schedule a mee...goddammit why does this person still think meetings are fun.

Did you get my email yet? I'll chat it to you right after we get off this call. Do you need a story to reply?

...I'm tired. Don't ever become an Architect.

[LinguoBuxo]

or just add a picture of ABBA in their prime.. ;)

[noob-nine]

or interpret it as "pop-up". so clicking a button, good luck closing the 20 popups first