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Friday, February 3 2017
[REDACTED] I had a relatively easy day in the remote workplace. I've been working on some code that can set an absolute limit to the amount of email that goes out via a Postfix instance. But since instances cannot send email out on other instances, I'm having to write code that transfers percentages from one instances to another when the absolute number is exceeded and then transfers it back when the day is done.
Meanwhile it seems Meerkat, the guy who had been the head of IT when I'd arrived at The Organization, has recently been trying get hired back. That isn't going to happen, but the powers that be thought it might be useful to have a meeting with him to ask him about things. It seemed like a ridiculous and vaguely-insulting notion to me, given that there are no mysteries left for him to explain and a lot of the code he'd written has changed. But I also understood it as The Organization trying to find some way to humor a guy who built a lot of important technology that is, I'm convinced, much better than my boss Da thinks. I've got the new backend guy Dan in agreement with me on this, and I've also been making that case to Al, the new (female!) backend developer recently hired to specialize in writing fundraising reports mostly using the fancy reporting tool I've been obsessively improving since July.
Later in the evening after work, I learned that Al had just been transitioned completely out of IT and into fundraising. Sometimes things happen in strangely dark and mysterious Game of Thronesian ways in the remote workplace, but so far I've completely avoided the intrigue. This is because I'm isolated in the deepest backend behind multiple layers of technology, only drawing attention to myself on the rare occasions something a little amiss occurs (such as the slow delivery of that important email on Tuesday).


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