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catball
@catball

Subject: [ACTION REQUIRED - Please Read!!] HR Notice
Body:

Your vacation time off was approved. No action is required.


Subject: [URGENT] Mandatory Meeting in 3 Minutes
Body:

hewwo this is your project manager, I'm lonely UwU


Subject: Townhall Fireside AMA with Some Director you didn't know you had!
Body:

My performance evals are coming up soon and I need to make an appearance before the peons. I will give a 50 minute presentation with absolutely no content. 10 minutes are held for Q&A, but I will not actually answer any questions.


Subject: Automated Robot Logger Message Broker Notification
Body:

(100 lines of entirely unreadable garbage)

A server somewhere is on fire. The company is hemorrhaging money. End times are nigh.

(100 more lines of entirely unreadable garbage)


atax1a
@atax1a

Opportunity Costs:

Branches TARGET
SOURCE nailbugspemtng-cat-fairbinplamamregexorcalogically-unpluggedsecuritymanagemant-yakcpm
nail 92185113936714015473951558574384039534518439408
bugs18125 5737826425272435741244463382079136574023264857412
pem476476 47667615135965419149415134170513
tng-cat-fairbin0219 50444637113747449856584044
plam10410620733 12912892076072280
am5865167366468 83138592379151242164
regex5891172385512 683215917
orca23612275030971652154 1841601308100
logically-unplugged6924979014974810122 132205684
security10434581153114872691152201246225467 4933236
managemant-yak125521521381171412881560164021 28
cpm19195196347355446142701195816 

Files with Deep, Internal Conflicts about the Nature of Reality and the Deep Truths of the Infernal Human Disaster:

Branches TARGET
SOURCE nailbugspemtng-cat-fairbinplamamregexorcalogically-unpluggedsecuritymanagemant-yakcpm
nail 02062093220
bugs1 531342911833
pem46 5415261025645
tng-cat-fairbin002 38125312121
plam47149 13513131114
am718642 151229876
regex011121 11111
orca9117632612 18716
logically-unplugged456113533 566
security274123320821 31
managemant-yak0030370276250 1
cpm00202801572303 

atax1a
@atax1a

we copied them pretty directly to another website, maybe fudging a few numbers randomly, and all the names, but the names wouldn't have meant anything either!

the first table contains "number of lines of code that differ when compared between branches"

the second table contains "number of files that, when these branches are merged, contain conflicts"

nobody really questioned why 12 wildly disparate branches were necessary


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in reply to @catball's post:

This is entirely too accurate.

Being on an internal infra team I also get

Subject: Quick question
Body:

Yeah hey I did a thing but nothing happened why not?

OR

Hey I saw a funny little hiccup on your frontend and it either means the network blinked for a second, or you broke the Frooboz Wizbanger, which would be pretty bad because then we'd lose all our money and get sued by German probably, but there's only like a 0.001% chance of that but you might want to look into it thx.

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