So I actually had to go work IN PERSON at one of our datacenters today. [Pause for you to offer murmurs of condolence.] Being in a giant loud building with no windows and perfect climate control all day is disorienting enough to begin with, but it's even worse when you both arrive and leave while it's dark out.
This is a long way of saying it's 19:15 here but I've been ready for bed for the last 45 minutes.
@mattsheffield I knew RTO was over at Big Software Company when we got an email pleading with us to come in for 3 specific dates because the global CEO would be onsite, and that email was co-signed by the CFO and head of HR.
Let's face it, for most tech workers full remote became feasible sometime around 2004, being in the office is just performance art at this point.
Scenario 1: production is down because of an expired certificate on some obscure piece of middleware and nobody knows how to reissue it. I will absolutely scramble to fix that and learn something in the process, and probably devise a better process for next time.
Scenario 2: SecOps is threatening to block all this dev stream's build servers due to an arbitrary pronouncement that #SSH isn't secure enough and they need to switch to #LDAPS by tomorrow. I will absolutely fantasize about that SecOps person being run over by a cement mixer.
Kudos to the appliance repair guy who instructed me to have my husband come home from work to… turn off the circuit breaker, in this year of two thousand and twenty three when it’s literally on the wall 4 feet away and gods help me what human doesn’t know how to flip a circuit breaker it’s a basic life skill?
An easier and more exciting way to do it (for the high voltage panels I work with) is to simply toss a screwdriver towards the terminals you're not sure are hot or cold and see whether it klinks harmlessly to the floor or POP 💥⚡💥
I have a collection of partially melted screwdrivers, and also I am still alive.