Please Backlog It (Until I'm On Vacation)

OMG, the EXISTENTIAL CRISIS of writing test cases! 😱 You're sitting there, pointing out the BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS like some kind of software Sherlock: "Hmm, yes, this function returns a value when called. THE FLOOR IS INDEED MADE OF FLOOR." And then you spend THREE HOURS documenting that water is wet and integers can be added together. The sheer DRAMA of having to verify that your code does exactly what it's supposed to do - as if that wasn't THE ENTIRE POINT of writing it in the first place! Developers everywhere WEEPING as they write their 47th assertion that null is, in fact, still null. 💀

Ah, the software development hierarchy in its natural habitat! While product owners dream of the future, designers make things pretty, and managers obsess over deadlines, developers are out here performing dark rituals with 1s and 0s like some kind of code necromancers. That last panel is painfully accurate. Nothing says "typical Tuesday" like transforming business requirements into working code while having an existential crisis about OKRs and KPIs. Meanwhile, everyone else's job descriptions fit in a cute little bubble. And that tiny "Don't worry, they're always like that" at the bottom? Chef's kiss. Because yes, we are always like that - turning caffeine into code while contemplating the void. It's not a phase, it's a lifestyle.

Ah, the classic technical debt masterpiece! Two construction workers building a brick wall that's completely misaligned and chaotic, captioned with the most dangerous phrase in software development: "Just keep coding. We can always fix it later." This is basically every sprint planning meeting where the product manager needs features yesterday. The wall represents your codebase - structurally questionable but somehow still standing. Those crooked bricks? That's your hastily written functions that somehow pass the tests. Spoiler alert: "later" never comes. Six months from now you'll be explaining to new hires why there's a comment that says "// TODO: Refactor this nightmare before 2018".

Junior developer naively asks where the documentation is, only to be met with the team lead's menacing stare and declaration: "I AM DOCUMENTATION." The unspoken reality of tribal knowledge strikes again. The code base is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, passed down through oral tradition like ancient folklore. Documentation exists solely in the minds of those who've survived long enough to remember why that one function needs a random sleep(3) call.

The existential dread of logging into Jira only to discover they've completely redesigned the UI... AGAIN . Just when you memorized where everything was, they've shuffled the entire interface like a deck of cards. Now you need another 3 sprints just to figure out how to create a ticket. The desperate "WHY?!" captures that perfect mix of betrayal and resignation every dev feels when forced to relearn a tool that was already barely tolerable to begin with.

The ultimate reverse interview technique! Instead of companies giving you a "trial task" to evaluate your skills, why not flip the script and get paid to evaluate their competence? It's like unit testing a company's management before committing to the full production environment. The number of tech companies that fail this basic responsibility test would crash the entire recruitment system.