I do not believe in the supernatural, magic, ghosts or anything like that. However, I can be very superstitious about tempting fate and won’t make jokes or flippant remarks that could be interpretted as such.
For example, my partner made a dark joke about how she’d rather have cancer than such and such. I begged her not to say such things, not because the thought of her having cancer upset me (although it did), but because it feels as if saying stuff like that could make it happen.
My job sees me putting a lot of really heavy objects on trailers, vehicles, boats and trains.
You must say “She ain’t going nowhere” and tap the load with your hand or else she is going somewhere you don’t want.
I swear by it. Every time I or one of my subordinates has forgotten the phrase its been a disaster. So we say it every time now and make sure the new guys do it to. Or else.
I’m going to make my wife read this so she stops groaning every time I say it.
Don’t worry, bro, she ain’t going nowhere!
I work in 911 dispatch, and there’s definitely something about full moons.
It’s not that we’re busier, or that the calls I get are more serious, but everything is just a little bit off when the moon is full. It’s subtle, I don’t think it would even be reflected in the types of calls we’re entering, but a lot of our callers just get weirder.
Way back in the 80s a dispatcher I was dating told me that very often they would see a little burst of activity right during shift changes - like burglar alarms going off. She said during the brief handoff period there was often a slight bit of confusion, or at least not 100% efficiency, and that “the bad guys” knew the schedule and would time their actions to take advantage of this.
I haven’t really noticed a burst of activity, but it’s certainly occured to me if I ever turned to a life of crime that I’d do stuff during that shift change, a couple of the departments we dispatch for definitely take their time with it and there’s often a pretty solid block of time where unless something serious is going down you’re not getting a quick police response.
Some of them handle it more efficiently than others, and the size of the town is a pretty big factor too. I’ve had more than a few callers complain about how long it’s taking because they live right by the station, but usually officers aren’t just hanging around at the station, they’re out on patrol and responding to incidents, shift change is pretty much the one time you’re going to find the station full of cops.
I heard from someone that works in a hospital that the ER gets weirder cases when the moon is full
Don’t touch anything in production on a Friday
Fairies, throwing spilled salt over my shoulder, giving away bad money before it can turn other money bad, not telling strangers my whole name, just a grab-bag of European folkways in general
Whenever I drive (which is rare) and I go through an intersection on a yellow light, I punch the ceiling of the car. I’ll even punch the air above my head if I run a yellow on my bicycle.
Someone told me back in high school that it’s bad luck not to do so, and for some reason it stuck with me.
I’m in I.T
- we DO NOT talk about how On-Call should go this weekend. I’m probably jinxing it just saying its name
- we DO NOT forecast in our timesheet how much was spent on overtime, even though fucking H.R seems to need it a week in advance like I have a fucking crystal ball
- we DO NOT say Good Luck, really; not ever.
- we DO NOT throw the box away - nor the shipping box - until whatever part has been running for a month. And then in secret so it doesn’t see us discarding the box.
- We DO NOT say “this is the reason. Now it’ll work.” You hear me, ChatGPT? You’re killin’ me.
- We DO NOT say “it’s just a reboot.”
- “Compiled on the first try” means “that’s a bus error later.”
I can’t think of any more, but I think I.T people don’t retire so much as just get afraid to leave the house.
Of all technical professionals, IT people / sys-admins are consistently the most supersticious. There is a reason we put ramen on top of servers.
Feed your HR department LLM generated forecasts.
The entire point of LLMs is to act as an accountability blackhole… seems like a perfect use case to me.
Absurd, literally impossible demands? Have some absurd, nonsensical compliance, from the god-machine.
The God-Machine is never wrong. It simply hasn’t hallucinated hard enough yet.
… the entire reason HR needs those numbers in advance is because C Suite is incompetent and can’t manage to produce a buffer for the costs of their own mistakes.
So let them talk to God about it.
You can’t defeat crazy with logic.
You might be able to defeat crazy with crazier crazy.
I seem to be the antithesis to all of this, and it’s been decades.
However what I do notice is that when I am in a very bad mood my pc always seems to act up unnaturally (eg booting into efi with failure or random crash which it’s not doing otherwise) 😂.
I believe there’s a connection between conscious minds that is not connected to the senses.
It originates off some legend that a large team of monks gathered to meditate and pray together on a given day. The city’s crime rate drastically fell on that day.
It sometimes seems to manifest in other stories, like family knowing immediately that something bad happened to a family member (before getting a call about it) or animal keepers having an emotional bond with their creatures without being able to communicate.
It originates off some legend that a large team of monks gathered to meditate and pray together on a given day. The city’s crime rate drastically fell on that day.
Probably the claimed “Maharishi effect” in 1974. The Transcendental Meditation organisation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) said that the quality of life would noticeably improve if at least the square root of 1% of the population practised the TM technique. They claimed the crime rate fell in some cities in 1974 because of it.
IMO It’s some pretty dubious stuff, but you may find stuff about The Global Consciousness Project interesting.
Same here. Don’t believe in ghosts, the supernatural, or any of that, but there have been very specific occasions where I’ve made utterances tempting fate and had that very thing happen, so now I try not to say those things or at the very least find some wood to knock on as if that’s going to do anything for me.
A longer piece of code that compiles and runs without obvious problems. It usually hides something horrible under the surface.
I was a hockey player and a motocrosser. I don’t have blood running through my veins, they’re filled with superstition.
When unplugging any electrical device from the wall, press the power button to discharge any non power supply capacitors.
Why is it that saying something bad will happen will make it happen, but saying something good will happen won’t?
Because god hates fucked up little sickos like me, apparently
There’s a word - starts with Q, ends with T. It is never to be uttered with regard to work conditions, ever.
Why the fuck are you talking about a quilt at work?
Well that’s the point, you’re not supposed to, no matter how well it’s crafted or warm it is.
Gotta keep your comfy q***ts on the d/l.
Absolutely nothing. I don’t believe in ghosts, magic, ju-ju, or karma.
Not even monsters under the bed? Because I mean, when you don’t check is when they show up!
Mind and body are very tightly bound (that is how placebo works) I don’t think you are wrong to be wary of speaking disease into existence. The only sinus infection I have ever had, came after reading a particularly vivid and detailed article about how they start. Like my body was following along.
I do give my work computer enrichment activities to keep it happy. Listen to music so that it can have music, browse occasionally so it doesn’t have only work to work on. I get far fewer problems than my teammates do, so it seems to work even though it’s superstitious nonsense.
