Friday the 13th, 17:52: The Gleeful Pre-Weekend Push

Description

A hand-drawn black-and-white two-panel comic in rough pencil style. The top panel shows a maniacally grinning developer leaning back at a desk with an open laptop, in a dim office at night (moon and stars visible through the window). A wall poster reads 'KANBAN IS SCRUM!', a calendar shows 'FRI 13' (Friday the 13th), and a digital desk clock reads '17:52'. The bottom panel is a dramatic close-up of a finger pressing a giant button labeled 'PUSH', drawn with action lines radiating outward. The comic skewers the cardinal sin of deploying right before the weekend: pushing code at 17:52 on a Friday - and Friday the 13th, no less - then presumably walking away, leaving the on-call rotation to inherit the fallout

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FridayDeployments DeploymentRisks Git OnCallDuty Deployment ForcePush Kanban Scrum DeveloperHumor

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Pushing at 17:52 on Friday the 13th isn't superstition - it's a controlled experiment to find out who actually reads the on-call schedule

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Pushing at 17:52 on Friday the 13th isn't superstition - it's a controlled experiment to find out who actually reads the on-call schedule
Anonymous

At 17:52 on Friday the 13th, git push is just a distributed pager trigger.
@azizhakberdiev 6mo

Hank
@bad94e81 6mo

TODAY
1. dev_meme 6mo
  
  Yeah, there’s also a clock on the table ;)
  
  @SamsonovAnton 6mo
  
  And it displays 17:52 — the workday is far from being over for programmer slaves, and at the same time it's just begun not too long ago for programmer bohema and night-shifters. There is no reason to rush home anyway — both because it's Friday and there will be no need to wake up early tomorrow, and because programmers don't have a life. 🤓
  
  dev_meme 6mo
  
  And even if you rush home, work has to continue there ;)
@get_DB_dump 6mo

This is literally our deployment window in the company, only on Fridays between 7 to 11pm.
@Dartrisen 6mo

WARNING: Sensitive file detected - .env pushed to main branch
@pixelsex 6mo

YOLO-engineering
1. @get_DB_dump 6mo
  
  Enslaved indians cover after-hours
@blue_bonsai 6mo

That isnt the finger