• Mac@mander.xyz
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      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.

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      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

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        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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        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.

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          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.

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            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.