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Lou: Who’s on call?
Bud: Yes.
Lou: The guy on call.
Bud: Who.
Lou: Who’s taking calls after hours!?
Bud: Exactly
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Bud: Yes.
Lou: The guy on call.
Bud: Who.
Lou: Who’s taking calls after hours!?
Bud: Exactly
sqlstudies.com/2013/11/13/who…
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Kenneth Fisqher (the q is silent) retweeted
Unfortunately, this will be Hugo's final post.
He passed away peacefully on November 3rd, at 9.45 AM.
He will be deeply missed.
- Judith Kornelis, Hugo's daughter
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He passed away peacefully on November 3rd, at 9.45 AM.
He will be deeply missed.
- Judith Kornelis, Hugo's daughter
sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/2026…
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This immediately made me think of @TracketPacer
"What are you doing?" - "Oh just playing a Switch game."
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Kenneth Fisqher (the q is silent) retweeted
Someone emailed ALL@COMPANY:
“Who took my oat milk from the fridge?”
846 recipients.
Then 23 people hit Reply All.
One wrote:
“Not me.”
Another wrote:
“Please remove me from this email.”
To all 846 people.
HR asked IT to stop employees from using the company-wide list for stupid things.
Comms said we couldn’t restrict it because “everyone needs the ability to communicate important information.”
So I made one change.
Every company-wide email now displays the sender’s estimated labor cost.
846 recipients × 20 seconds of reading time × average salary.
The next message came from Marketing.
“Cupcakes in kitchen.”
ESTIMATED ORGANIZATIONAL COST: $1,940
They deleted it.
Company-wide email volume dropped 96% in one day.
Yesterday someone sent one anyway:
“WHOEVER KEEPS STEALING MY OAT MILK, THIS IS NOW A $1,940 PROBLEM.”
Same guy.
Honestly I respect the escalation.
“Who took my oat milk from the fridge?”
846 recipients.
Then 23 people hit Reply All.
One wrote:
“Not me.”
Another wrote:
“Please remove me from this email.”
To all 846 people.
HR asked IT to stop employees from using the company-wide list for stupid things.
Comms said we couldn’t restrict it because “everyone needs the ability to communicate important information.”
So I made one change.
Every company-wide email now displays the sender’s estimated labor cost.
846 recipients × 20 seconds of reading time × average salary.
The next message came from Marketing.
“Cupcakes in kitchen.”
ESTIMATED ORGANIZATIONAL COST: $1,940
They deleted it.
Company-wide email volume dropped 96% in one day.
Yesterday someone sent one anyway:
“WHOEVER KEEPS STEALING MY OAT MILK, THIS IS NOW A $1,940 PROBLEM.”
Same guy.
Honestly I respect the escalation.
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This is probably something everyone in IT should read. No clue if it's actually true, but it's certainly plausible.
HR bought employee-monitoring software without telling IT.
Screenshots.
Active time.
Idle time.
“Productivity scores.”
Then they asked me to deploy it company-wide.
I said we should pilot it first.
HR agreed.
So I installed it on HR.
By lunchtime the HR director’s productivity score was 41%.
She called me immediately.
“This is wrong. I’ve been working all morning.”
The software showed 2 hours and 17 minutes of inactivity.
“I was interviewing candidates.”
The laptop was idle.
“I was in meetings.”
The laptop was idle.
“I took a phone call with Legal.”
The laptop was idle.
She said the system needed to understand that work can happen away from the keyboard.
I agreed.
Then I asked how it was going to understand that for the 700 employees she wanted to measure.
Silence.
At 3:40 PM HR emailed me:
“Please pause rollout while we reassess whether activity metrics accurately reflect employee contribution.”
Pilot lasted six hours.
Turns out workplace surveillance becomes nuanced the moment the dashboard starts describing management.
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Kenneth Fisqher (the q is silent) retweeted
Elle Cordova simply does not miss.
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Sequal Mike? I'd have loved something like that. 😂🙃
We hired a new VP named Michael Lee.
Unfortunately we already have a Michael Lee.
He works in the warehouse.
He's been here 11 years.
New VP gets:
michael.lee2@company.com
He immediately messages IT.
“Can you move the other Michael to michael.lee2 and give me michael.lee?”
No.
He asks HR.
HR asks me if we can “prioritize seniority.”
I explain that the warehouse Michael has eleven years of email history tied to that address and changing it because someone with a nicer title arrived would be insane.
VP reluctantly keeps the 2.
Warehouse Michael finds out.
Changes his Teams display name to:
Michael Lee (Original)
By Friday the VP is being referred to as Sequel Mike.
He has asked IT to intervene.
Unfortunately nickname management is outside our support scope.
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