I’m talking to one of my users, who asks the status on a project, saying that she hasn’t heard from the developer (we’ll call him Developer A) we were waiting on in a month.

So I asked Developer A what was going on. He says, “I think we’re waiting on Developer B.”

So I asked Developer B what was going on. He says, “We’re done with our thing. Now we’re waiting on Developer C.”

So I asked Developer C. His response: “Oh, yeah, uh, I got held up by prod issues. I’ll work on it today.”

I feel like I just played the pass-it-on game, you know, where you whisper something into the ear of the person next to you, and they to the next person, and so on, and then something comes out the other end. “We’re working on it” went all the way down the line and became “A yak farted in Afghanistan.”

Someday I’ll write a program that can automate this, too.