Straight To Prod

The classic corporate bait-and-switch! Manager gleefully announces "no more daily standups" like he's bestowing a gift from the heavens, only to reveal the true horror: writing detailed Slack messages every morning instead. The final panels show the developers' brilliant malicious compliance—using ChatGPT to auto-generate those meaningless status updates. This is peak modern workplace evolution: replacing a 15-minute meeting with an hour of typing, then automating away the busywork with AI. The circle of corporate life is complete. The manager thinks he's won, but the devs are playing 4D chess while he's still figuring out how to open Excel.

The cosmic horror of being assigned as a code reviewer for a 208-file pull request with +114,948 lines added and -1,130 lines removed. The giant, menacing figure represents the monstrous PR towering over the poor developer who's been summoned to review this abomination. That's not a codebase change—that's a whole new dimension of pain being introduced into your repository! The "And It Is Only Monday" title perfectly captures that sinking feeling when your week starts with what can only be described as a code war crime. Whoever submitted this PR clearly doesn't believe in atomic commits or the concept of human mercy.

The startup dev experience in one image! That moment when you realize you're not just writing code—you're also the DevOps engineer, QA tester, product manager, and somehow also handling customer support tickets. Nothing says "we're scaling fast" like having one developer frantically juggling the entire tech stack while the founders are busy pitching to VCs. The mythical "full-stack" developer finally revealed: it's just one sleep-deprived person with 17 different Slack channels open and an IV drip of espresso.

Just like Santa promising dragons, managers promising "productive standups" are selling fantasy. The moment you think they'll finally cut the 45-minute status theater where Dave drones about his JIRA tickets, they hit you with "what color do you want your dragon?" – asking about irrelevant details of a project that'll never see the light of day. The only thing more mythical than dragons is a standup that actually stays standing.

Skip code review? No problem! Just sit back and watch the dumpster fire unfold in production instead. Nothing quite like that 3 AM call when everything's imploding because someone thought their untested spaghetti code was "good enough." The best debugging sessions are always the ones where customers are your QA team and your boss is breathing down your neck. It's fine. This is fine.

The eternal dance of software development in two frames: a developer screaming internally while trying to estimate how long a project will take, juxtaposed with a project manager gleefully promising impossible deadlines to clients. It's like watching someone calculate the precise dimensions of a coffin while their boss is already selling tickets to the resurrection. The developer knows whatever number they give will be arbitrary and wrong, yet the PM has already promised the client they'll deliver a full enterprise system by next Tuesday. And thus begins another project destined to join the 70% that fail or exceed their budgets. But hey, at least the client is temporarily happy!