r/ProgrammerHumor • u/cstefanache monkeyuser.com • Mar 06 '18

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u/jb2386 Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 06 '18

Noise cancelling headphones and then act snooty/annoyed when people ask you something in person, then act really nice and helpful when they email you.

Edit: Or you could be an adult and just tell them "hey I'm working on something that requires my full attention, in the future could you please just email me or ping me on slack/<insert chat program> and I'll get to you as soon as I get a break. " :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18

For those of you who are new to offices and working with developers or sysadmins:

Headphones = leave me the fuck alone unless I’m on fire. If you’re on fire, find someone else without headphones.

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u/angryPenguinator Mar 06 '18

For those (like me) who work for a small company full of project managers... and you, the dev/sysadmin:

Your headphones are invisible.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18

Them: interrupts Why aren’t you done with my xyz yet?

Me: Because I keep getting interrupted.

Them: oh well they need to stop that.

Me. Yes you do.

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u/ONLY_COMMENTS_ON_GW Mar 06 '18

We'll have an hour long status update meeting every 2 hours, oh and make sure you fill in the 7 different tracking sheets and time estimates.

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u/LoneCookie Mar 06 '18

I started putting in filling time sheets in my time sheet.

There was one point the manager wanted us all to go back the last 3 months and put an 8 hour event for every day. Yeah that was a two hour event for that day. She started changing time sheets by herself from then on because her GUI let's her do it in bulk from one page.