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Running Away From Work With This

Running Away From Work With This
Someone just casually stole an entire server's worth of RAM sticks and is making their escape. That's probably like $5,000+ worth of memory modules just chilling in a car. Either they're "borrowing" hardware from the office to upgrade their gaming rig, or they just discovered the company's decommissioned equipment isn't being monitored. The real question is: did they test each stick before yoinking them, or are they about to get home and discover half of them are faulty? Nothing says "I quit" quite like literally taking your work's memory with you—both figuratively and literally.

Ship Code Not Excuses He Says

Ship Code Not Excuses He Says
Someone left Microsoft because they wouldn't give them a MacBook, then proceeds to write a five-paragraph essay justifying their decision with the classic "Mac makes me more productive" argument. They talk about swapping terminals like a ninja, running Docker natively, and how their laptop sounds like a jet engine (spoiler: that's not the flex they think it is). Then they complain about Microsoft's 20-step auth and locked-down internal tools—valid gripes, honestly. But here's the kicker: after all this rambling about productivity and tooling preferences, they end with "Ship code, not excuses." Brother just shipped a whole manifesto instead of code. The irony is so thick you could deploy it to production. If you need a specific OS to be productive, you're not as productive as you think. Real devs ship code on a potato if they have to.

The Best Way To Improve Productivity

The Best Way To Improve Productivity
Management really thought they had a galaxy brain moment forcing devs to use AI tools. "Let's make them more productive by having ChatGPT write their code!" they said. Devs were like "yeah sure whatever" and went back to sleep. Plot twist: turns out AI is actually pretty good at generating status reports, attending meetings, writing performance reviews, and crafting those passive-aggressive Slack messages that middle management specializes in. Suddenly everyone's awake because the productivity "improvement" is about to hit a bit different than expected. The irony is chef's kiss – companies trying to automate the workers ended up creating a tool that's better at automating the people who made that decision. Maybe that's the real productivity boost we needed all along.

Natural Intelligence

Natural Intelligence
You know that one developer who still writes nested for-loops inside for-loops and thinks ChatGPT is black magic? Yeah, they just discovered AI can write code. Now they're asking it to generate entire microservices architectures while you're still trying to explain why their 500-line function needs to be refactored. The monkey discovering the gun is somehow less terrifying than watching them paste raw AI output directly into production without reading a single line. At least the monkey might accidentally hit the target.

Only My Boss Can Afford Ram

Only My Boss Can Afford Ram
The lead developer has ascended to mythical status. While you're still running 8GB and Chrome tabs like a game of resource management Jenga, this person apparently has DDR5 RAM. You know, the stuff that costs more than your monthly grocery budget. The rest of the team is out here swapping to disk like it's 2005, but the lead dev? They're living in the future, probably running Docker containers like they're free. DDR5 is the latest RAM standard that's faster and more expensive than DDR4, which means it's perfect for flexing on your coworkers. Nothing says "I'm important" quite like having hardware that doesn't freeze when you open your IDE, browser, Slack, and that one Electron app that somehow uses 4GB by itself.

Once You Complete Ahead Of Time

Once You Complete Ahead Of Time
You know that brief, beautiful moment when you actually finish your sprint tasks early and think you might get some breathing room? Yeah, that's cute. The moment a project manager catches wind that you're "free," they materialize like a genie from a lamp with a whole backlog of "quick wins" and "small tweaks" that definitely won't take 5 minutes despite what they claim. The smirk says it all—it's that knowing look of someone who's about to ruin your peaceful afternoon with three new tickets, a "minor" refactor, and maybe helping debug Steve's environment issues. Pro tip: never, EVER announce you're done early in standup. Just quietly work on that side project or refactor some code. Your future self will thank you.

When They Say That Wasn't In The Job Description...

When They Say That Wasn't In The Job Description...
Oh, you sweet summer child thinking your job description actually means something! Here we have a job posting that's basically describing the bare minimum requirements for being a sentient human being. Can you sit? Can you use your FINGERS? Can you comprehend SPOKEN LANGUAGE? Congratulations, you're qualified for this $86k-$130k position! The "abilities" section reads like someone asked an AI to describe what humans do, but the real kicker is they're treating basic human functions as job qualifications. "Have finger dexterity to use a keyboard" – wow, revolutionary! Next they'll require you to have the ability to breathe oxygen and blink occasionally. But wait, there's more! They threw in "paid maternity leave" at the top like it's some kind of luxury perk instead of, you know, a basic human right in most developed countries. The whole thing screams "we're going to make you do EVERYTHING that wasn't mentioned here" while pretending to be transparent. Classic corporate move – describe being alive as job requirements so they can later claim literally any task falls under your abilities. Need you to fix the office plumbing? Well, you DID say you could extend your hands in any direction!

Know The Difference

Know The Difference
The corporate dating hierarchy has spoken. Mention Lua? You're a mysterious, sexy unicorn deserving of heart emojis. Mention PHP? Straight to HR jail. It's not about skill—it's about perceived exoticness . Nobody at the office Christmas party wants to hear about your WordPress plugins, but that game engine scripting? Suddenly you're fascinating. Ten years in the industry and I've learned: your attractiveness is directly proportional to how obscure your programming language is. Bonus points if nobody can pronounce it correctly.

Get Hired, Fix Bug, Refuse To Elaborate, Leave

Get Hired, Fix Bug, Refuse To Elaborate, Leave
The ultimate power move: join company, fix the one thing that's been driving you insane as a user, then immediately peace out. This is basically the software development equivalent of walking into a room, flipping a light switch that nobody else could figure out, and moonwalking away while everyone's jaw hits the floor. It's like they woke up and chose violence, but the sophisticated kind where you actually make things better before disappearing into the sunset. The sheer audacity of solving a problem and then immediately submitting your notice is just *chef's kiss*. Somewhere, a product manager is still staring at their screen in disbelief.

Junior Vs Senior Dev

Junior Vs Senior Dev
Junior devs frantically running around while everything's on fire, desperately trying to fix bugs they probably created themselves. Meanwhile, senior devs are just sunbathing next to the same dumpster fire—not because they don't care, but because they've seen this exact disaster 47 times before and know the world isn't actually ending. They'll fix it... right after their mental health break. The real senior dev superpower isn't coding wizardry—it's the ability to remain perfectly calm while production is literally exploding.

The Tech Spec Double Standard

The Tech Spec Double Standard
Talk tech specs at work and you're either a hero or a threat. When Valve does it, they're adorable. When PCMR does it, suddenly HR needs to have a chat. Classic double standard. The difference between "passionate about gaming" and "this guy might hack the payroll system."

Coding On A Team Be Like

Coding On A Team Be Like
The Cold War of code ownership! In the top panel, Bugs Bunny proudly stands with an American flag background declaring "My code" when "Coding something at work" - because let's face it, we're all territorial creatures with our precious functions. But the second panel reveals the brutal truth of team development: the moment there's a bug, suddenly the Soviet hammer and sickle appears behind Bugs with "Our bug" plastered across it. Nothing transforms individual achievement into collective responsibility faster than a production error. The proprietary-to-communist pipeline takes approximately 0.2 seconds when QA finds an issue.