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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 49 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thou shalt not deploy anything to production on a Friday.

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The queue/phones/inbox/whatever sure is quiet today.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 1 month ago

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.