by Phrases that always bode ill …
‘hold my beer, this is gonna be cool’ (WormMan)
“How much do you know about unix” (at maintenance hour)
“oops” (Strata)
“Are you busy…”
(doubly so if it starts with a call on, say, Saturday night)
“I know you’re busy, but..” (Strata)
“All I wanted to do was …”
A sub-category of phrases, namely “posthumous”
First entry…
“No, no, this will just take a minute…” (usually emitted by /dev/spouse, involving some task that just *has* to be done before I get in the car for a long roadtrip) (Strata)
“Hang on a sec … it’s just a quick change to the config”
“it just went ‘click’ the other five times. ” (Strata)
“It always starts working again when I do … ”
“Is it supposed to do that…”
“Looks great, let’s just flush the ip tables and reload to be sure.” (Strata)
“Are you sure you’re not on prod … ”
(are you sure..) ^on prod^in the right window (Strata)
(usually followed by an indignant “of course I am…..oh s**t…) (Strata)
“that’s funny…” (AllberyB)
“That’s funny … does it usually take this long …”
If I’m irritated enough to say, “What’s a mountain goat doing in that cloud bank?” *out loud*, I’m usually pretty sure that the people in the room won’t recognize it or I’ve stopped caring if they will. (Strata)
“How … interesting … ”
“Nothing, nothing… just admiring the mountain goats in your lovely cloudbanks. Let’s gp back to your description of the firewall configs…” (Strata)
“Would you mind going over that again? it seems a bit unusual…”
‘Fascinating’
“I can’t reach $person on their cell phone…” and “We’re waiting for $person to be able to start this maintenance…”
good luck(tm) (WormMan)
“I wish you’d discussed this with me prior to implementation”
are we blogging these? 🙂 “AllberyB”