lol bullet points are the forbidden fruit at my company too. my manager literally put a red circle around every bullet in my last quarterly review and wrote "what is this, amazon?" like sorry for trying to be clear, Brenda. i switched to bold key phrases and actual sentences and suddenly people stopped skimming over my reports like they're junk mail. it's like the second you don't format stuff like a recipe, people treat it like real work. bullet points are efficient but i guess they're also the fastest way to get roasted in a meeting.

Nah man you're not alone, that exact same thing got me on my first real project too. I spent a solid afternoon staring at a white screen thinking my whole app was broken. Finally noticed DEBUG was still on and the allowed hosts were empty. Felt like such a clown when I realized it was just two lines in settings. Welcome to the club.

@abbyl49 must own stock in Klein. I've used dykes for 20 years and never snapped a wire.

Wait, that rule? The one where you have to log everything within 24 hours? I got flagged twice before I figured out that part. You actually got away with it?

Funny enough, this whole parking debate reminds me of the time I spent a whole summer driving for a carpool service in college. I had this one guy who would pay extra every single day to park in the same spot by the coffee shop, even though it was ten bucks more than the lot across the street. He said it was his "ritual" and that the extra cost was like buying a guarantee that his morning wouldn't start off wrong. I never understood it until I started running my own business and realized that sometimes you just pay to avoid the small headaches that pile up. So yeah, I get the peace of mind thing, even if I still think walking an extra block is free exercise.