Time-waster Memes

Posts tagged with Time-waster

The Cache Strikes Again

The Cache Strikes Again
Three hours of debugging only to discover the cache was laughing at you the whole time. That moment when you're ready to either put your head through the monitor or use that gun on your codebase. The worst part? You've made this exact mistake six times before and swore it would never happen again. Hard to look smart when your career is being derailed by a browser refresh button.

Tech Support: The Dating App Nobody Asked For

Tech Support: The Dating App Nobody Asked For
Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again" - tech support is just dating with more troubleshooting and less romance. Both involve hours of frustration, miscommunication, and ultimately walking away wondering why you bothered. At least with tech support, you can hang up without getting ghosted first.

When Simple Questions Become Meeting Marathons

When Simple Questions Become Meeting Marathons
You just wanted to know if you should use camelCase or snake_case for the new feature, but now there's a 45-minute calendar invite with 8 people discussing "naming convention standardization" and someone's sharing their screen with a PowerPoint about "The History of Variable Naming." The worst part? The meeting ends with "Let's schedule a follow-up to continue this discussion." The classic developer time-sink where a 10-second question morphs into corporate purgatory faster than you can say "git commit".

It Can't Be That Easy

It Can't Be That Easy
That moment when you've been manually refreshing the page for 8 hours straight, squinting at console logs, and questioning your career choices... only to realize you never pressed the magic "refresh debugger" button. The browser's been showing you the same broken code all day while you slowly lose your sanity. Pro tip: before throwing your laptop out the window, try Ctrl+F5 first.