Thou shalt not deploy anything to production on a Friday.
Same with making quality or engineering changes in a friday. It’s just dumb.
Nothing better than coming in Monday only to have to perform containment of all the bad parts produced over the weekend.
Good one!
The queue/phones/inbox/whatever sure is quiet today.
Back when I was in the helpdesk trenches, the phone system did go out during business hours one time. Most relaxing day of my professional career.
Years ago I worked for Target’s support call center and we had monitors with the call queues displayed throughout the floor.
New people would get quickly corrected if they commented on the status of the queues. There was an unspoken look but don’t comment rule.
Wow, we had totally different (but probably otherwise very similar) experiences lol. The big queue monitor was all our floor manager would talk about. Ever.
Actually, in some industries this is actually a good thing
If you can have a bumpy first day on Friday, and e.g. the warehouse is closed on the weekend, you can fix all the things you’ve seen on Friday during the weekend. And don’t have to suffer through a real rough week with in-production patching
True, and I’ve worked in corp IT for retail and we did actually do updates to the system on Fridays (or sometimes Saturdays) for exactly that reason.
So it’s more a rule-of-thumb than a prime directive, I guess lol.
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I have a ram pendant so Satan protects me.
I do not believe in Satan.
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Never put shoes on a table, mostly just because it’s dirty but I think it’s something to do with bad luck?
Edit: fat thumbs
The overwhelming majority of people are paid actors whose job is to stand in my way when I want to go home after work.
It’s about harmless beliefs, not not being crazy.
That might make it more Truman show /fun to interact with them.
Maybe they’re not even paid, they enjoy standing in your way so much they come back and do it for free 😱
I must clench and unclench my toes a few times on a carpet at the next available opportunity after landing from a flight
I never saw a Unicorn before I believed in them. I guess they have a magical defense against being seen by people who don’t believe in them.
Now that I do believe in them…I still haven’t seen one. I guess they’re not local to my area.
I intend to continue to believe in them for the foreseeable future while I do some travel… just in case.
Picking up pennies.
Fun memory I just had: My dad was a penny picker and would empty his pockets at the end of the day into one of those blue 5-gallon water jugs that he kept right at the front door by the stairs. One time when it was full, I was trying to be slick and take a lil, and knocked the jug down the stairs where it broke and pennies cascaded down them like a waterfall of copper. Dad was pissed at first but then found it funny. Whats even more funny, is that we didn’t clean it up for months, we just had penny stairs, and I swear he would come home and just throw his new pennies right on the stairs. He probably would have kept it that way forever but I cleaned it up as a surprise while he was gone one day.
Reminds me.
I was not there, but a buddy of mine worked as a moving man. That day’s client had done something similar, except he’d put the coins in a glass 5 gallon bottle, the kind that were used for water coolers. The client decided to show off for the movers and made to hoist the bottle up onto his shoulder. Bottom came out and coins went everywhere.
Hadn’t thought of that story in a while. Thanks
That’s what ours was too, the kind that goes into water coolers but it was plastic, not glass. It still exploded when I dropped it though LOL
Building off that: If you find a penny on heads its good luck. Finding on tails is bad. But, if you flip over a penny on tails for the next person to find it heads, you walk away neutral
Do it? Don’t do it? People who do it turn into dinosaurs? 37 years good luck? Tell us, man!
IMO there are no harmless ones (by that I mean dictionary definition superstitions - not just things like traditions and adages that have a logical reason or basis), if a person truly believes in actual magical thinking no matter how silly it’s a doorway to accepting the rest.
Like letting in bullshit like horoscopes, homeopathy, faith healing, yearning for eschatological prophecies…
Damn, you must be fun at parties.
Flexible thinking where you can have silly beliefs but know to trust what can be verified is more resilient than embracing fear of the unknown.
Wot?
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That’s as much a superstition as anything else.
Have you got a shred of empirical evidence to back it up?
That’s what I’m saying, it’s all bullshit
If you hand someone a sharp object like a knife or scissors you will soon get into an argument. Gotta set it on the table for them to retrieve instead.
I heard a similar idea; you should never gift someone you like a knife because it will sever the friendship.
That’s a really good superstition. Everybody wins.
I refuse to wear red shirts because of Star Trek TOS.
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If someone says something bad, knock on wood. Like “Well X thing could happen” where X is like. A storm, the cats learning how to tap dance, a river exploding. Knocking on wood to make that not happen.
Whenever I get out of my car with lights still on and it dings to warn me, I thank it for reminding me. I just know the day I don’t do that is the last day that ding will happen!
It’s always best to be polite. I like to thank automatic doors for opening for me
I feel like bad things will happen to me if I eat a broken butterfinger bar.
I do a monthly newsletter at work. I collect the stuff for the newsletter in an Excel sheet. I normally end up with around 12 items or so. But that makes my Excel sheet stop on line 13 because of the header row. So I’ll add 2 more things. Because if I just add 1 then it will be 13 entries. So my newsletter will have less than 11 or more than 14 entries. I don’t know why, I don’t care about the number 13 anywhere else in my life.
If three good things happen to me in a relatively short period of time, something bad is gonna happen next.
If three bad thing happen to me in a relatively short period of time, somethig good is gonna happen next.
