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Cake day: September 19th, 2025

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  • I’m not suggesting that anyone exfiltrate work product. Just to take notes on what direction you’re given, what you know other people are responsible for, and to keep those notes somewhere that you have access to them with disregard to what your permissions at work are.


  • How do we keep the workplace running, …

    That’s the neat part; you don’t. Stop doing your boss’ job. They get paid for it, they can do it. Whether they do it well or do it badly is not your concern. Do not participate in workarounds to cover for bad management. All that does is push the obvious problem off to tomorrow.

    For example, I have a boss who has repeatedly told me to post on reddit looking for technical solutions. I’ve told them multiple times that I don’t do reddit. My suggestion has continually been to engage vendor support (for a price, of course), which gets shot down. The problem condition continues to exist.

    Record everything. Take contemporaneous notes about everything that goes down, and take them for yourself, outside the company network. That way, when you get blamed for something, you can come with receipts.