IT Guys Listening To Non IT People Talk About Computers

IT Guys Listening To Non IT People Talk About Computers
You know that special kind of pain when someone tells you they "deleted the internet" or that their computer has a virus because it's running slow? That's the face right there. It's the internal screaming mixed with the professional obligation to nod politely while someone explains how they fixed their printer by "downloading more RAM." The best part is trying to maintain composure when they're absolutely confident in their completely wrong explanation. "Yeah, I'm pretty tech-savvy myself" they say, right before asking if you can hack their ex's Facebook. The restraint it takes not to correct every single misconception is truly an underappreciated skill in the tech industry.

Little Timmy Tables

Little Timmy Tables
Little Timmy tried to be clever by literally injecting SQL into his name to transfer himself from the naughty list to the nice list. Classic Bobby Tables move, but Santa's not running a database—he's running Excel spreadsheets. Multiple interconnected ones. Because apparently the North Pole's IT department peaked in 1995. The joke is that SQL injection attacks only work on actual databases, not on Excel files where Santa probably has formulas like =IF(VLOOKUP(A2,NaughtyList!A:B,2,FALSE)="Naughty","Coal","Toys") spread across 47 different tabs with names like "NaughtyList_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE.xlsx" Security through obsolescence is undefeated. Sorry Timmy, should've tried a macro virus instead.

I Will Probably Not Learn R Language

I Will Probably Not Learn R Language
Oh, so R is great for statistical computing? Cool, cool, cool. Array indices starting at 1? Absolutely not. The audacity! The sheer disrespect to every programmer who's been counting from zero since the dawn of time! Like, imagine being a data scientist trying to convince developers to learn R and then hitting them with "btw arrays start at 1 lol" – instant dealbreaker. It's giving MATLAB energy and nobody asked for that. The Joey Tribbiani face says it all: went from "okay I'm listening" to "yeah that's gonna be a hard pass from me, chief" in 0.5 seconds flat.

I Still Don't Know My Operator Precedence

I Still Don't Know My Operator Precedence
When you're staring at an expression like a + b * c / d - e and your brain just... nopes out. Sure, you COULD memorize the operator precedence table like some kind of mathematical wizard, OR you could just throw parentheses at everything like you're building a fortress of clarity. The calculator might know its order of operations, but do you trust it? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Better slap those parentheses around every single operation just to be safe. Is it elegant? No. Does it work? Also questionable. But at least you know EXACTLY what's happening, even if your code looks like it's wearing braces on its teeth. Pro tip: PEMDAS is great until you realize programming languages have like 47 different operator precedence levels and bitwise operators lurking in the shadows.

How To Proceed

How To Proceed
You just speedran a six-month project in four hours and now you're having an existential crisis about whether to expose yourself as a productivity god or coast on easy mode for half a year. The NPC meme face says it all—your brain has officially blue-screened trying to calculate the optimal strategy. Here's the thing: if you tell your boss, you'll get a pat on the back and three more "urgent" projects dumped on your desk by tomorrow. If you stay quiet, you've basically just secured a six-month vacation where you can pretend to be busy while actually learning that new framework you've been eyeing. The real dilemma is whether your conscience can handle the guilt of getting paid to occasionally move your mouse so Teams shows you as "Active." Spoiler alert: Most devs would choose the latter and spend those six months refactoring code nobody asked them to touch, writing documentation that nobody will read, or finally figuring out what those weird Docker configs actually do.

I Thought My Lights Were Broken

I Thought My Lights Were Broken
Setting RGB lights to white and getting blue instead is the hardware equivalent of expecting "Hello World" but getting a segfault. RGB color mixing works by combining Red, Green, and Blue channels - so white should be (255, 255, 255). But if you're getting blue, either your red and green LEDs decided to take a vacation, or someone's firmware is having an existential crisis. It's like asking for coffee with cream and sugar but receiving straight espresso with a side of disappointment. The hardware gods have spoken, and they said "no."

Inner Peace

Inner Peace
That glorious moment when you finally—FINALLY—finish your feature and get to perform the most sacred ritual known to developers: the Great Tab Purge. You know the drill: 47 Stack Overflow tabs explaining why your async function won't await, 23 GitHub issues from 2016, 89 documentation pages you swore you'd read "later," and approximately 41 tabs of "javascript array methods I always forget" because apparently `.map()` and `.filter()` are too complex for your brain to retain. Closing all those tabs is like Marie Kondo-ing your entire existence. Your RAM can finally breathe. Your laptop fan stops sounding like a jet engine preparing for takeoff. Your browser stops judging you. Pure, unadulterated serenity washes over you as you watch that tab count drop from triple digits to a respectable single digit. Nirvana has been achieved.

Integer Underflow Risk

Integer Underflow Risk
You placed first in a coding contest, feeling like a god among mortals. But then someone else placed 0th because they exploited an integer underflow bug in the ranking system. Classic competitive programming energy right here—where winning isn't about being the best, it's about finding that one edge case the organizers forgot to validate. For the uninitiated: integer underflow happens when you subtract from the minimum value of an integer type and it wraps around to the maximum value (or in this case, goes negative and becomes 0th place). It's like going so far backward you end up ahead. Honestly, if you can hack the leaderboard, you deserve that trophy more than anyone who actually solved the problems.

When You Ask Viewers For Products/Features Ideas

When You Ask Viewers For Products/Features Ideas
So you thought crowdsourcing feature requests would be a great idea. You opened the floodgates, asked your community what they wanted, and now you're staring at "just add real-time multiplayer with blockchain integration and AI-powered NPCs that learn from player behavior." Meanwhile, your actual game is a 2D platformer you built in two weeks. The scope creep boss has entered the chat, and it's wielding a sword made of unrealistic expectations and zero understanding of development time. Your poor little game never stood a chance against the eldritch horror of feature requests that would require a AAA studio budget and three years of crunch.

Well Well Well

Well Well Well
You know that smug feeling when you tell the team "we don't have time for tests, we'll write them later"? Yeah, later just arrived. Production's on fire, users are screaming, and you're staring at a bug that would've taken 30 seconds to catch with a basic unit test. But hey, you saved what, 10 minutes? Now you get to spend 3 hours debugging at 2 AM on a Friday while your manager CC's the entire engineering org on the incident report. The consequences-of-my-own-actions pipeline is now in full deployment mode. Fun fact: Studies show that fixing bugs in production costs 10-100x more than catching them during development. But sure, skip those tests. What could possibly go wrong?

Side Project Always Wins

Side Project Always Wins
The absolute BETRAYAL captured in this single frame! Your work project is literally sitting right there, desperately trying to get your attention with its boring requirements and reasonable deadlines, but nope—you've already chosen violence. That side project? The one that'll probably never see the light of day? The todo app you're building for the 47th time using a framework that came out yesterday? Yeah, THAT'S your soulmate now. The work project can cry in legacy code while you're out here speedrunning your passion project at 2 AM with zero documentation and maximum vibes. The side project doesn't judge you, doesn't have standup meetings, and definitely doesn't need another Jira ticket. It's the forbidden romance of the developer world, and honestly? We're all guilty.

Git Add All Without Updating The Gitignore

Git Add All Without Updating The Gitignore
You know that sinking feeling when you casually run git add . and suddenly realize you just staged 47GB of raw training data, node_modules, and probably your entire .env file? Now you're watching your terminal crawl through uploading gigabytes to GitHub while your upload speed decides to cosplay as dial-up internet. The "51 years" is barely an exaggeration when you're pushing datasets that should've been in .gitignore from day one. Pro tip: always update your .gitignore BEFORE the git add, not after you've committed to your terrible life choices. And if you've already pushed? Time to learn about git filter-branch or BFG Repo-Cleaner, which is basically the "oh no" button for git repos.