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Man I don’t regret leaving this behind at my last job. You start out by doing someone a one-off like “sure I can pull the top 5 promotional GICs broken down by region for your blog article - I love supporting my co-workers!”

Then requests become increasingly esoteric and arcane, and insistent.

You try to build a simple FE to expose the data for them, but you can’t get the time approved so you either have to do it with OT or good ol’ time theft, and even then there’s no replacement for just writing SQL, so you’ll always be their silver bullet.

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If it’s regular, I recommend cron + mailutils. Have the cron job call a script with a variable sleep in it if you want to make it look more manual.

pomodoro_longbreak, (edited )
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Also that urgency is rooted in job insecurity, not even customer impact. They just don’t want to look bad.

E: which I mean fair enough, me too, but still.

pomodoro_longbreak,
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I like that idea, and it actually did work for our Marketing guy (Salesforce has a kind of SQL). Near the end there, I just had to debug a few of his harder errors, or double check a script that was going to be running on production.

Never thought of it for Postres or Mysql, etc, but I suppose there’s got to be an easy enough way to get someone access

pomodoro_longbreak,
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Yeah but we’re all learning, so a certain amount of grace is called for.

Anyway, not to counter my own point. There’s a line, is what I’m saying, and it’s blurry.

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I get what you’re saying, but I personally don’t find it tiring. It’s just a part of contextualizing history. I think of it as a reminder of the progress we’ve made (I hope) - that we can put an asterisk beside someone’s name in the history books.

Kind of like how it’s impossible to talk about the history of hypothermia research without acknowledging its grossly unethical source.

pomodoro_longbreak,
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My partner literally had to send her mother our budget and attached bank statements to illustrate how we could struggle to pay the bills even with 3 jobs between the 2 of us.

I will say she finally got it - that you can work hard and scrimp and save, and still come up short.

pomodoro_longbreak,
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Thank you and well said. She’s by no means a bad person. I like her a lot. it’s just the last job she had was as a nurse in the 80s in London; meanwhile, her husband had the same job for 40 years, so her perspective is way out-of-date with reality.

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