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@Brolls Apart from the names, yes.
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@webdev I still don't get the meaning of this
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@TheOct0 She mumbled a bit more profanity around it, but she said something like "get lost, little girl", in the tone a mother would use towards a whining child.
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@varundey goddamn my dev life autocorrect
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@AlexDeLarge You are just a backend dev hiding in the closet behind a full stack of bullshit π
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@balaianu That would be another one of those studio-laughters shows, wouldn't it?
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@TheOct0 not at all, it would be an awkward silance kinda show. Keeping it close to the real thing :))
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@varundey Just some cheesy signs. Although in my opinion they contain pretty clear messages.
Somehow I seem to work with about 100 illiterates though.
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@apokalipscke here, take your first ++ :)
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Thank you @MEGADROID π
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@iSwimInTheC I think a long anecdote like this doesn't really fit a comic very well though
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@bittersweet Actually, it really would. It's a funny, yet short enough, story for devRant cartoon.
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@bittersweet congrats on 30k ;)
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@Brolls happy 3000! Let me ruin that for you.
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@akashvartak growing beard to do this! π
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@alsoknownasdrew
I tend to use a few dramatizing adjectives here and there and I'm anonimizing names of coworkers, but the anecdote itself wasn't fabricated. But believe what you want to believe, this is the internet, I can't prove much anyway without jeopardizing my career.
Some empty-headed helpdesk girl skipped into our office yesterday afternoon, despite the big scary warning signs glued to the door.
"Hey, when I log in on my phone, the menu is looking weird"
"Uh... look at my beard"
"What"
"Just look at this beard!"
"Uh.... OK"
"Does this look like a perfectly groomed beard"
"Uh... it's pretty nice I guess"
"You don't have to lie"
She looks puzzled: "OK... maybe it could use a little trimming. Uh... a lot of trimming". "I still like it though" she adds, trying hard to be polite.
"I understand you just started working here. But the beard... the beard should make it clear. See the office opposite to this one?"
"Yeah"
"Perfectly groomed ginger beards. It's all stylish shawls and smiles and spinach smoothies. Those people are known as frontend developers, they care about pixels and menus. Now look at my beard. It is dark and wild, it has some gray stress hairs, and if you take a deep breath it smells like dust and cognac mixed with the tears caused by failed deploys. Nothing personal, but I don't give a fuck what a menu looks like on your phone."
She looked around, and noticed the other 2 tired looking guys with unshaven hobo chins. To her credit, she pointed at the woman in the corner: "What about her, she doesn't seem to have a beard"
Yulia, 1.9m long muscled database admin from Ukraine, lets out a heavy sigh. "I do not know you well enough yet to show you where I grow my unkempt graying hairs... . Now get lost divchyna."
Helpdesk girl leaves the scene.
Joanna, machine learning dev, walks in: "I saw a confused blonde lost in the hallway, did you give her the beard speech?"
"Yeah" -- couldn't hold back a giggle -- "haha now she'll come to you"
Joanna: "No I already took care of it"
"How?"
"She started about some stupid menu, so I just told her to smell my cup". Joanna, functional alcoholic, is holding her 4pm Irish coffee. "I think this living up to our stereotype tactic is working, because the girl laughed and nodded like she understood, and ran off to the design department"
Me: "I do miss shaving though"
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