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I took the scripts concept as a metaphor for the broken aspects of a company’s culture, and how people work around these broken aspects with “scripts” of behavior that they’ve learnt over the years.

Curious to hear about people’s duct tape fixes for team/company culture issues.

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I once has to log time on everything. It was a tempting workaound to log time to the wrong ticket (still one of mine though) so that none of the tickets go over estimate, so I wouldn't be taken to task. I even thought of writing a tool to keep the mapping of real ticket to fake ticket.

Also better to try and get more nebulous work that can carry a higher estimate/ buffer in the first place. And never refactor in the same ticket. Create a new one. But that won't get done so just let it go.

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