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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.
I'm going to make my wife read this so she stops groaning every time I say it.
yeah because saying it gives you a moment to reflect on whether you properly pulled all the brakes, etc. .
I'm in I.T
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.
Of all technical professionals, IT people / sys-admins are consistently the most supersticious. There is a reason we put ramen on top of servers.
Co-worker: It's quiet today
Me: You fucking fuck, what's wrong with you?
Ticketing system: DING!
I couldn't have said it better. I don't believe in anything illogical but when it comes to tech we all secretly know its really magic and if we tempt fate the magic will go out of its way to ruined the day of those who don't show it the proper reverence.
I work in 911 dispatch, and there's definitely something about full moons.
It's not that we're busier, or that the calls I get are more serious, but everything is just a little bit off when the moon is full. It's subtle, I don't think it would even be reflected in the types of calls we're entering, but a lot of our callers just get weirder.
Yes there is a correlation, its been studied scientifically I believe. It is also the origin of the word "Lunacy", because the moon (Lune in French, Luna in Latin) is associated with madness
Way back in the 80s a dispatcher I was dating told me that very often they would see a little burst of activity right during shift changes - like burglar alarms going off. She said during the brief handoff period there was often a slight bit of confusion, or at least not 100% efficiency, and that "the bad guys" knew the schedule and would time their actions to take advantage of this.
I haven't really noticed a burst of activity, but it's certainly occured to me if I ever turned to a life of crime that I'd do stuff during that shift change, a couple of the departments we dispatch for definitely take their time with it and there's often a pretty solid block of time where unless something serious is going down you're not getting a quick police response.
Some of them handle it more efficiently than others, and the size of the town is a pretty big factor too. I've had more than a few callers complain about how long it's taking because they live right by the station, but usually officers aren't just hanging around at the station, they're out on patrol and responding to incidents, shift change is pretty much the one time you're going to find the station full of cops.
I do not believe in the supernatural [...] However, I can be very superstitious
You do believe in the supernatural.
Or they have ocd.
Cloud tax is real.
In astrophotography, when you buy a new piece of equipment you have to pay the cloud tax. That is: after receiving your new gear it will be cloudy so you can’t use it. The number of cloudy days is directly related to the value of the new gear you got. If you buy something expensive it can be months before you can use it.
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
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'm pretty sure only steering with one hand means a lot worse luck in a potentially dangerous situation.
At least that's my takeaway from watching Canadas Worst Driver.
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.
A longer piece of code that compiles and runs without obvious problems. It usually hides something horrible under the surface.
Made my hands sweaty just by reading this.
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 think I believe this too. I have birthed 4 kids. 2 tech wizards, one average, and one who the computer hates. They just don't work for her like they do for me & the average kid. I think the difference between average and the tech girls is interest and effort, but the difference between average and the one who has bad luck with them does not seem to be explainable in the same way. And it's not a creative/logical split either.
I get superstitions about being cocky or headstrong. Nearly every time I do, the universe corrects my behavior, typically by me failing in some huge, embarrassing fashion.
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?
Good question. I also share a fear of heights, and although heights can be dangerous, having to stand 5 feet behind the overlook railing is just as unreasonable as avoiding black cats.
noo, actually, it makes sense evolutionarily. on high mountains and near cliffs and such, the winds can be unexpectedly strong. one moment you're standing perfectly still 1 feet from the cliff, the next moment you fall over because the wind is pushing you. it's really unexpected.
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.
Anecdotal, but in my experience fake wood does not count. Just on Friday I said knock on wood and used some fake vinyl bullshit. Cut to 5 hours later, the exact thing I was trying to ward off happened.
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.
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 was a hockey player and a motocrosser. I don’t have blood running through my veins, they’re filled with superstition.
I believe there’s a connection between conscious minds that is not connected to the senses.
It originates off some legend that a large team of monks gathered to meditate and pray together on a given day. The city’s crime rate drastically fell on that day.
It sometimes seems to manifest in other stories, like family knowing immediately that something bad happened to a family member (before getting a call about it) or animal keepers having an emotional bond with their creatures without being able to communicate.
Whenever things seem to be going well, don't let the universe know you've noticed, otherwise the universe will make things absolute shit to 'balance it out'.
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.
When unplugging any electrical device from the wall, press the power button to discharge any non power supply capacitors.
Oh I'm superstitious about a great many things but I try to make it as useful as possible by being the most superstitious about not practicing regular gratitude. So for instance I'll "wish" or "bless" someone with something like "a boring shift" because that's the kind of thing it's important to remember to be grateful for. Or instead of saying it's "quiet" (a common bad-luck superstition in healthcare), I'll comment that "I have been blessed with a good night so far."
A core component of my spirituality that I've reflected on lately is that regardless of what I do or don't believe cosmologically, spirituality and religion offer a huge amount of emotional / psychological tools that have stood the test of time and appeared across multiple religions in various forms due to sheer usefulness. These include things like community and regular gratitude and mindfulness practices.
They absolutely can and have been analyzed and implemented in other ways, but that requires a lot of research and very careful coordination of a lot of individual components. Meanwhile I've found a remarkable amount of success emotionally and psychologically in connecting with a faith community that has all those things built in and which has a LOT of other people who are doing the same thing to support me sticking with it.
Don't split the pole around me.
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.
It's always funny to me that people have to signal that they don't believe in magic before declaring that they do, in fact, believe in magic.
Absolutely nothing. I don't believe in ghosts, magic, ju-ju, or karma.
If things are calm at work, not a lot is going on, don't say QUIET. Never use the fucking Q word at all.
Hold the Reset button as you power off the NES or you'll lose your save.
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 feel you. I haven't started either and for years there was no name I felt connected to because they would elicit a negative rmotion or was connected to a person. Eventually one just sounded right to me and I started using it, and one day it was my name.
I love your handle lol
There's a word - starts with Q, ends with T. It is never to be uttered with regard to work conditions, ever.
Whenever I buy insurance for a device, nothing happens to it. Twice I've not had insurance (once it was not offered, second time I foolishly skipped it) and both those times, those devices fucking ate it.
Buying the insurance is a magic spell that protects my technology and nothing can convince me otherwise
