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Jess RoseBeen horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".
Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?
Jonty Wareing@jessie Instead of saying "I'll remember that" I'm gonna start saying "I'll back that up to my meat storage"
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Ben C@viq @jonty @jessie if you’ve not read it before… They’re Made of Meat by Terry Bisson. https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
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They're Made Out of Meat
DerPumu (he/him)@jessie now I need the plural noun for meat storage. A rattling?
@jessie the German translation would be "Fleischspeicher" - a tongue twister due to the two "sh" sounds following each other
Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm)
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Stephen Darlington@jessie That’s brilliant! I am totally going to use it.
Kathy Reid@jessie so good 100% accurate
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often frowned upon@jessie cold storage, hot storage, warm and squishy storage
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Jeff C@jessie
I have a few words to say about that...
https://artinbsd.blogspot.com/2011/02/artistic-understanding.html
@JeffC1956 oh, added to my to-read queue, thank you!
Sine-Nomine🇵🇸FREE🇵🇸PALESTINE@jessie
stored in my gelatinous wetware 🧠
EDIT:
i had no idea my through-away comment, Gelatious WetWare had so much traction! Thank you! kind Mastodon People!🙂
"May your Gelatinous WetWare serve you long & well!" 🧠
@Sine_Nomine @jessie Gelatinous Wetware is a Pratchett villain you can't fool me
@Sine_Nomine @jessie I don't think it's *really* a Pratchett villain, but the phrase has the music of a Pratchett-pastiching-Dickens character name
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Professor_StevensShop I worked in during the '80s referred to programmers generally as "the meatware."
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@Professor_Stevens MEATWARE!!!
Octoomy "Octoomy" Octoomy The Octoomy The Second@jessie idk why but that reminds me about the fact that AOL free trial disks were stuck into packs of frozen meat and somehow survived the trip.
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Panic at the Trishco 🕊️@jessie
Perhaps the more horrifying issue is institutional knowledge located in an imperfect memory bank.
I’ve forgotten more than my coworkers will ever learn.
Perhaps the more horrifying issue is institutional knowledge located in an imperfect memory bank.
I’ve forgotten more than my coworkers will ever learn.
@jessie
Oh God, I just translated that to your saying.
I’ve let more meat go rotten than my coworkers have ever butchered.
Brian Repko@jessie i love this - I’d almost be willing to come out of retirement just to say this
Giles@jessie People also get funny about referring to “the world about us” as Meatspace (as opposed to Cyberspace). I’m going to reintroduce this for in person meetings (meatings?)
Urban Hermit@gilesdring @jessie "meatings"
I can't believe that was just sitting there through the whole pandemic and Zoom and Teams things.
"They want a return to office so we can sit through more 'meatings'."
John Autry@Urban_Hermit @gilesdring @jessie
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings.
They did it by killing all those who opposed them.
Beige CatsWhoCode@jessie omg 
all of my license plates are locked in meat storage
all of my license plates are locked in meat storage
James Smith 💾@jessie I love this. I did a thing when doing system architecture a while back of starting to add people's brains into the diagrams for legacy systems; I think it's a useful concept! https://www.dxw.com/2022/07/legacy-tech-systems-are-like-the-walking-dead/
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Skylar MacDonald@jessie I hate this and also will be using it at every available opportunity
Giles Sutcliffe@jessie paging Terry Bisson. Terry Bisson to the phone made out of meat...
Weird Socks@jessie
I work with field crews.
I don't want to use this because I think they will love it at first sight.
I work with field crews.
I don't want to use this because I think they will love it at first sight.
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@jessie this is horrible and I'm absolutely going to boost it after I press Post
Matt Brunt@jessie I’ll use that to describe the immense loss of knowledge after people leave too.
“Yeah it’s locked in meat storage that went to market”
Chris D.
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SunnyI like it. Keep it in "meat storage" or they'll lay your ass off the moment they know all you know.
"I need you to document what you typically do each day... "
(Because the guy in India taking your job after next week, likes to work off a script.)
econadsI prefer to give a very technical long-winded yet precise instruction set that only a highly qualified individual can understand well enough to ask about the missing steps.
If the PM immediately sets up a call to go through the information with someone named Abhai, reschedule the call for two weeks out and update your LinkedIn profile.
Cassander@jessie Love it. Gonna really lean into it and start using the phrase "meat-written" too. As in "that information is only meat-written right now, but we should probably plan some time to digitally transcribe it".
Arthur P. Dent@drsbaitso @jessie “Meat” & greet anyone? 😁
Alun Jones@jessie I like to remind my team of the guy I worked with, who died of a heart-attack at his home-office desk while working late one night, when I insist on documentation.
It's a lot more effective than "what if you win the lottery?" and doesn't draw nearly the same level of HR disapproval as "what if you got run over by my bus?"
It's a lot more effective than "what if you win the lottery?" and doesn't draw nearly the same level of HR disapproval as "what if you got run over by my bus?"
Graham WattI have used the phrase "in case I get hit by a bus", dozens of times, right after explaining where my current documentation and project tracking files are located. People die, get hurt, retire, quit, but if your culture is to share/document, maybe it isn't all in my meat-storage. Oh, fun fact, our coldest office space is lovingly referred to as the "meat locker".
neil okamoto@jessie give the information to the entire team and you've stored it in RAUM, the redundant array of unreliable meat. In German I think that's "space" or "room", so you've got the alternate interpretation of piling boxes of papers in a spare bedroom for eventual (but not easy or reliable) retrieval?
Third spruce tree on the left@jessie Well they can protest all they like, what are they gonna do, make disgusting meat sounds with their meat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
("They're Made of Meat" video short based on the Terry Bisson short story, about two aliens discussing, and being horrified that their investigations around Humans have discovered they are made of disgusting meat instead of silicon or metal (its never really discussed what the "good" alternative is or should be))
They're Made Out of Meat
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j-r conlinHeh, I like to call it "Imaginary Documentation" and let them argue that it's wrong.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@jessie Thinking meat? Sentient meat?! https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
The Turtle@jessie "nearline meatware storage."