Engineers Romanticize ER Shifts, Cry Over Two Office Days

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A two-part meme contrasting developer fantasies with reality, using stills of Noah Wyle from the medical drama 'The Pitt'. Top caption in black impact text: 'SOFTWARE ENGINEERS IMAGINING WHAT THEIR LIFE WOULD BE LIKE IF THEY HAD CHOSEN MEDICINE AND WORKED 20H SHIFTS IN THE ER' above three heroic stills: the doctor arriving on a motorcycle in sunglasses, confidently zipping his hoodie in a hospital corridor, and commandingly treating a patient on a gurney. Bottom caption: 'ALSO SOFTWARE ENGINEERS WHEN THEIR BOSS ASKS THEM TO COME TO THE OFFICE TWICE A WEEK' above an image of the same actor in blood-stained scrubs sobbing into his arm against a wall. An imgflip.com watermark sits at bottom-left. The meme mocks the gap between developers' grass-is-greener fantasies about high-stakes professions and their actual tolerance for the mildest return-to-office mandate

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Devs dream of 20-hour ER shifts but file a grievance when the standup moves 30 minutes earlier - turns out 'on-call' tolerance is strictly hypothetical

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Devs dream of 20-hour ER shifts but file a grievance when the standup moves 30 minutes earlier - turns out 'on-call' tolerance is strictly hypothetical
Anonymous

A 20-hour ER shift is aspirational; badge access twice a week is the outage.
@agonyship 2mo

I come to the office every day, when I don't teach classes. Also I know a software engineer from Hamburg who quit because he was never allowed to come to the office (yes, really).
@Riksiok 2mo

Yeah, cause we see how pointless it is
@Riksiok 2mo

I'm also the guy in the bottom picture whenever someone makes a 1-hour meeting when nothing happens.. you can just FEEL your life getting shorter
1. . 2mo
  
  What's the difference if they pay you this meeting?
  
  @Riksiok 2mo
  
  The difference is I'm still the idiot that prefers doing something productive than just rotting away listening to nothing :P
  
  . 2mo
  
  Well, I just listen them in the background and play subway surf... 🫠
@ZmEYkA_3310 2mo

Goomba fallacy
1. @sysoevyarik 2mo
  
  Rethoric of Ligma
@kitbot256 2mo

The small nuance is that the ER doctor on the top picture is on the verge of suicide.