On-call Memes

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Always My On-Call Shift
AWS Devops Programming Backend Cloud
5 days ago 168.1K views 0 shares
Always My On-Call Shift
Oh look, it's the famous "house of cards" we call modern infrastructure! The meme brilliantly shows how the entire digital world apparently balances on a single AWS US-East-1 region. Nothing quite like getting paged at 3 AM because Jeff Bezos's hamsters stopped running in Virginia, and suddenly half the internet is down. And of course, it's always during your on-call shift. The best part? Your CEO asking "why don't we have redundancy?" while simultaneously rejecting your multi-region architecture proposal because it was "too expensive." Ah, the sweet smell of technical debt in the morning.

Had Todo It
Devops Programming Debugging Backend
6 days ago 178.8K views 1 shares
Had Todo It
Ah, the sacred weekend on-call rotation—where pants become optional but existential dread is mandatory. Nothing quite captures the soul-crushing reality of DevOps life like getting that 2 AM alert because some intern pushed directly to production on a Saturday. There you sit, in your underwear, contemplating every career choice that led to this moment while Slack notifications light up your phone like a Christmas tree. The best part? Monday morning, management will ask why it took you 7 minutes to respond instead of 5. Because apparently sleep is just a suggestion when you've signed that SLA agreement with your soul.

Not My Problem Anymore
Devops Programming Debugging Backend Cloud
1 month ago 165.0K views 0 shares
Not My Problem Anymore
Oh. My. GOD! The ABSOLUTE BLISS of watching your company's production environment BURST INTO FLAMES while you're serving your notice period! 🔥 That smirk says it all - "I warned you about that technical debt for MONTHS, but nooooo, features were more important!" Now you're just standing there with your coffee, watching the motorcycle crash in slow motion while your soon-to-be-ex-colleagues panic. The sweet, sweet taste of vindication without responsibility! Zero stress, zero urgency, zero on-call alerts blowing up YOUR phone. Just pure, unadulterated schadenfreude as someone else inherits your cursed codebase. Karma's a beautiful thing, darling! 💅

Have Fun Being On Call
AI Devops Programming Debugging Testing
4 months ago 411.5K views 0 shares
Have Fun Being On Call
The corporate tech joy ride that ends in a ditch. First, management gets ChatGPT Enterprise and everyone's excited. Then they add Windsurf and the party continues. Soon developers are "vibe coding" instead of writing proper tests. Finally, the AI is reviewing pull requests, and that's when your phone rings at 3 AM because production is on fire. Nothing says "career advancement" like explaining to the CTO why an AI approved code that deleted the customer database because it had "good vibes."

The IT Team's Pre-Holiday Prayer Circle
Devops Networking Security Programming Linux
6 months ago 257.4K views 0 shares
The IT Team's Pre-Holiday Prayer Circle
That sacred pre-vacation ritual where you desperately pray to the server gods that nothing explodes while you're gone. Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like frantically patting server racks and whispering "please don't die" to infrastructure that's held together by duct tape and Stack Overflow answers. The true holiday miracle is making it to January without getting that 3 AM call about the production database deciding to spontaneously combust while you're trying to enjoy your eggnog.

When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In
Programming Devops Agile Debugging
6 months ago 196.3K views 0 shares
When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In
That beautiful moment when you've closed all your IDE tabs, pushed your commits, and are mentally halfway to happy hour... then your Slack explodes with "Critical update: ALL HANDS ON." The universe has a special talent for waiting until you've mentally checked out before dropping production fires in your lap. It's like the code knows you're smiling and decides "not today, friend." Freedom was so close you could taste it. Now you're being dragged back into the trenches for an emergency that will inevitably be traced back to someone's "minor change" that "shouldn't affect anything."

Vibe Coding In Prod
Devops Git Programming Debugging Testing
7 months ago 214.8K views 0 shares
Vibe Coding In Prod
That's what happens when you push untested code on Friday at 4:59 PM with a commit message "it works on my machine." The skeleton isn't a metaphor - it's literally the remains of the last developer who thought hotfixing production was a personality trait. The business calls it "moving fast and breaking things," but the on-call engineer calls it "why I drink."