Your Average Manager Halloween Costume

Oh. My. GOD. The eternal struggle between non-technical managers and developers summed up in four glorious panels! 😱 On the left: The developer's face of pure AGONY as they reply "LGTM" (Looks Good To Me) without actually reviewing a SINGLE LINE of code because they're drowning in their own deadlines! On the right: The blissfully ignorant non-technical person with their flower crown of innocence asking if the code looks good, then the DEVASTATING realization that the developer didn't even GLANCE at their precious creation! The betrayal! The drama! The technical debt that's about to be unleashed upon the world because NOBODY HAS TIME TO PROPERLY CODE REVIEW ANYMORE! *faints dramatically*

The joke here is that the pie chart shows the "Benefits of working in IT in 2025" with a legend listing Salary, Wellness, Stable mental health, and Confidence for your future... but none of the colors in the legend actually appear in the chart. Classic bait-and-switch that hits too close to home. Seven years in the industry and I've seen enough "wellness programs" that consist of a single yoga session and free pizza to know this isn't far from reality. The chart is basically saying "here are all the benefits you were promised" while showing completely different data—just like how your job description never matches what you actually do. Pro tip: The real benefits of IT are unlimited coffee and the ability to blame everything on "network issues."

Squidward peering through the blinds at SpongeBob and Patrick having fun is the perfect metaphor for tech lead existence. While the devs are happily writing code and building things, you're trapped in Jira hell, creating tickets, updating sprints, and wondering if you'll ever touch a keyboard again for anything other than status updates. The crushing weight of project management has turned you into Squidward - technically superior but dead inside.

The AUDACITY of product managers taking credit for developer blood, sweat, and tears! 💀 While the senior and junior devs are literally HAULING themselves up the mountain of impossible requirements and technical debt, the product manager is just chilling in a sleeping bag, doing absolutely NOTHING. And then—THE NERVE—when the devs finally make some progress, the PM wakes up, stretches, and has the GALL to proclaim "Look how far I climbed, and I'm not even tired." Meanwhile, the developers are one energy drink away from cardiac arrest. But hey, user feedback improved, so mission accomplished, right? 🙃

The eternal cycle of software development. Junior dev hands over a note begging for code review before production deployment. Senior dev crumples it without a second thought and tosses it away. Nothing says "I believe in you" quite like throwing someone directly into the fire. The production server makes an excellent teacher - cruel, but effective. That burning sensation? It's just your career growing.

Oh, the AUDACITY! There you are, slaving away on a quick Proof of Concept that's held together with digital duct tape and wishful thinking, when management swoops in like vultures and declares your fragile prototype "production ready." That smile? That's the face of someone who just heard their weekend project is now going to be supporting millions of users! Nothing says "we value quality" like taking code that was LITERALLY NEVER MEANT TO SCALE and throwing it into production because it "seems to work well enough." Congratulations, your 3 AM caffeine-fueled hack job is now a "feature" that you'll be maintaining until the heat death of the universe! 🎉