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by nonethewiser 1287 days ago
Hm. I wonder why no one ever called you.
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Because there's a dumb culture of treating people who left like they're from beyond the grave where you have to divine their intentions like some programming ouija board.

I broke that unspoken rule and got a really intractable problem that held us up for days finally fixed by making a short phone call early in my career and told myself if I was ever causing what we were going through I'd want to make it clear that I'm open to that rule being broken as well.

Apparently even suggesting such a rule should be questioned and to try human solutions to human problems is met with mockery and disdain. Alright, cool.

It's bold. I'm sure if one of those time bombs went off, the call might not be to ask for help, but to impolitely complain.