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We Have a Chief Happiness Officer But No Chief Technology Officer

Chief Happiness Officer mandates quarterly fun events. We have no CTO. The servers have been on fire since Q2.

The CEO Read a Blog Post About Flat Organizations So Now Nobody Reports to Anyone

Flat org means zero decisions get made. We debated which CI tool to use for 3 weeks. We still have not picked one.

I Took a Pay Cut for Equity and the Equity Is Now Worth Less Than the Free Office Snacks

My equity is worth negative dollars after taxes. The office snacks are almonds. Organic almonds. I hate almonds.

Our Error Logging Service Went Down So We Had No Idea Everything Else Was Down Too

Error logging silently went down. So did everything else. We found out when the CEO called because the website was white.

I Accidentally DoSed Our Own API with an Infinite Retry Loop and Called It Resilience Engineering

Retry loop spawned new retries. 14,000 requests per second from our own API. But auto-scaling passed the stress test.