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There's a word - starts with Q, ends with T. It is never to be uttered with regard to work conditions, ever.

Don't touch anything in production on a Friday

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.

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.

A longer piece of code that compiles and runs without obvious problems. It usually hides something horrible under the surface.

yeah i do the same thing. i imagine supernatural beings are listening to what i say and making it come true; i suspect it's my own subconscious steering me in a way.

I do not believe in the supernatural [...] However, I can be very superstitious

You do believe in the supernatural.

If and when I transition, I might take a new name.

There are so many good* names from movies, TV series, books and real life mythology that I cannot adopt because they conflict with my mind emotionally if they are in any way affiliated with death, weakness, sadness, anger, curses, darkness, evil and so on.

*good sounding, good mouth feel when pronouncing, good literal meaning, etc.

I'm the same when it comes to dark jokes like that. There are certain things I will never joke about and I don't want to hear jokes about. I grew up hearing my grandma saying that a lot and now, I've already lost one of my relatives to that. So, I just don't want hear about it at all.

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

Technology likes some people and not others.

My brother and my GF are both in the "dislike" camp. I am firmly in the "tech just likes me" camp. Granted, my brother gets back at me for it because crazy stuff just happens around him to his immense benefit all his life.

I have a fear of heights. In fear, I go back to what I was taught during childhood. I pray to God to save me even though I'm an agnostic now.

Does that count as a superstition?

I think that is not uncommon. I do the knock on wood stuff. Not because I actually think it will make a difference but its just kinda a thing. Its like when you have something that is not above the 95th percentile and you are hoping and like "trusting" in luck. Like right now I feel that way about my car. Its also like the "there are no athiests in foxholes". When at deaths door its easy to reach out to supernatural help since its pretty clear your effed natural world wise.

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.

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 have something that I would call a superstition. Sometimes, when I'm preparing for something (like going somewhere, preparing for a test, etc) and I have a weird thought about how something could go wrong, I have to make sure at least 3 times that I have covered against said possibility. So whether it be taking a particular thing with me, or like locking all my windows, or having my phone charged, or whatever, I make sure 3 or more times that I have done what needs to be done.

Surprisingly when I have overrode that feeling, even if I made sure once, I have 100% missed it somehow later on. So I just don't take chances now.

Same here. With my kids, I really struggled to get stuff ready for their birth because it gent like tempting fate. Cue scrambling to get everything ready once the baby was back home.

In smaller stuff, always knock on wood. Fake wood counts as wood.

Don't split the pole around me.

Hold the Reset button as you power off the NES or you'll lose your save.

When unplugging any electrical device from the wall, press the power button to discharge any non power supply capacitors.