I was asked to drive 80m to reboot a device when I'd said the previous day that rebooting would fix it (it was a phone; there's almost no real troubleshooting on the platform). I kept quiet about how financially irresponsible the request was. When I got there, the phone was already turned off for other reasons. At least I got to listen to podcasts while I drove there and back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And hopefully you got paid for mileage...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I read it as miles. If some_guy meant meters, then that would add such a new level of comedy to it hahaha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I'm not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I'm doing here, probably. 😅