I do not believe in the supernatural, magic, ghosts or anything like that. However, I can be very superstitious about tempting fate and won’t make jokes or flippant remarks that could be interpretted as such.

For example, my partner made a dark joke about how she’d rather have cancer than such and such. I begged her not to say such things, not because the thought of her having cancer upset me (although it did), but because it feels as if saying stuff like that could make it happen.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m in I.T

    • we DO NOT talk about how On-Call should go this weekend. I’m probably jinxing it just saying its name
    • we DO NOT forecast in our timesheet how much was spent on overtime, even though fucking H.R seems to need it a week in advance like I have a fucking crystal ball
    • we DO NOT say Good Luck, really; not ever.
    • we DO NOT throw the box away - nor the shipping box - until whatever part has been running for a month. And then in secret so it doesn’t see us discarding the box.
    • We DO NOT say “this is the reason. Now it’ll work.” You hear me, ChatGPT? You’re killin’ me.
    • We DO NOT say “it’s just a reboot.”
    • “Compiled on the first try” means “that’s a bus error later.”

    I can’t think of any more, but I think I.T people don’t retire so much as just get afraid to leave the house.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      Of all technical professionals, IT people / sys-admins are consistently the most supersticious. There is a reason we put ramen on top of servers.

    • TVA@thebrainbin.org
      5·
      2 days ago

      Co-worker: It’s quiet today Me: You fucking fuck, what’s wrong with you? Ticketing system: DING!

    • agentTeiko@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I couldn’t have said it better. I don’t believe in anything illogical but when it comes to tech we all secretly know its really magic and if we tempt fate the magic will go out of its way to ruined the day of those who don’t show it the proper reverence.

    • Strider@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I seem to be the antithesis to all of this, and it’s been decades.

      However what I do notice is that when I am in a very bad mood my pc always seems to act up unnaturally (eg booting into efi with failure or random crash which it’s not doing otherwise) 😂.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Feed your HR department LLM generated forecasts.

      The entire point of LLMs is to act as an accountability blackhole… seems like a perfect use case to me.

      Absurd, literally impossible demands? Have some absurd, nonsensical compliance, from the god-machine.

      The God-Machine is never wrong. It simply hasn’t hallucinated hard enough yet.

      … the entire reason HR needs those numbers in advance is because C Suite is incompetent and can’t manage to produce a buffer for the costs of their own mistakes.

      So let them talk to God about it.

      You can’t defeat crazy with logic.

      You might be able to defeat crazy with crazier crazy.