Snake inna box!

[azurelunatic]

"Yes, I see you have a snake. That's not my snake. I don't have to handle that snake. It doesn't match any of the pictures on my snake box. You shouldn't be handling that snake either, so why are you asking me to build better snake gloves for you? Maybe you should give it to the guy with the box that has the matching picture? I searched through the snake intake logs for snakes matching that picture. I found four of them. None of them were in the right boxes." ... "Oh, I see. When you did put the snake in the box with the matching picture, the guy in charge of that box dumped the snake back on your head? Several times? Perhaps I will go speak with him."

Sometimes I go back through my old locked entries. Sometimes I find things that merely happened on the same day as something sensitive, which got thrown into the locked entry merely based on timing. That was one.

Comments

[silveradept]

...nope, I still don't get it. Even though it is an amusing kind of tale.

[azurelunatic]

Somebody filed a ticket into Purple's department when the error log pretty clearly said to file it into another department. The ticket was accompanied by a somewhat unusual request, for him to build a thing that would let the reporter (who had no business doing deep-dive troubleshooting) do deep-dive troubleshooting.

Upon further conversation, it turned out that the department who was supposed to be handling these errors was rejecting them, so the person who'd been running into it was determined to see what they could do on their own. Thus petitioning Purple for a little help.

[silveradept]

Ah. And now it does make sense, and is clearly better told with the snakes.

[azurelunatic]

The "Ivan Vorpatril's inbox" game is great fun.

[sithjawa]

I forget this part and need to be reminded so that I can frame all my metabugs in terms of snakes