The Appointment is Set
📅 You scheduled it.
🧑💻 DevOps Calendar:
🕐 "Thursday – 13:00"
📌 Topic: 'Staging vs Production Firewall Rules'
AI Assistant: (⌐■_■)
"Reminder: Bring coffee. And patience."
The Meeting Begins…
🕐 13:00
( •_•)>⌐■-■ ← DevOps
(ง •̀_•́)ง ← Network Engineer
(￣ω￣;) ← Product Manager
(=ↀωↀ=) ← QA-Cat on the table
🎤 Topic 1: "Why staging has root access?"
⏳ 13:47... still discussing IP ranges
The Conflict Escalates
💥 PM: "Let’s just open port 22 for all."
🔥 DevOps: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
"ABSOLUTELY NOT."
🐱 QA-Cat: (⚆ _ ⚆) "Miau?"
🔁 Tension rising. No firewall rules changed.
The Reschedule
📢 AI: "Meeting exceeding 90 min threshold."
💬 PM: "Can we just reschedule to... next sprint?"
📆 New Invite:
✅ 'Revisit Access Policies'
🕓 Thursday – 13:00 (again)
🔁 Location: same Zoom link
The Return (Next Week)
📅 Thursday – 13:00
All appear on screen again.
🎧 DevOps:
"Same time. Same topic. Same chaos."
🐱 Cat:
(=ↀᆺↀ=) "Still no resolution."
┬──┬
( •_•) ← but today… no table was flipped.
Moral:
In DevOps, nothing dies – it just gets rescheduled.
