this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2025
359 points (98.9% liked)

Programmer Humor

27065 readers
741 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
359
Every time (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] palordrolap@fedia.io 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Exchange line 6 for "Su-u-ure. I bet you can't walk away from my desk without asking me to do something."

A clever manager would go away and come back in 10 minutes with twice as much "urgent" work as previously and no pretence, but it would be funny for those 10 minutes.

[โ€“] Atlas_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Or say "ok, you got me there. But, two things can be true and I'm here to listen if you have something you want to talk about"