Maintaining Status Quo

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In the quirky world of tech development, there's a team notorious for their motto: "Maintaining Status Quo." Their mantra? "When not doing just doesn't do."

Every week, they gather for meetings that could easily double as stand-up comedy hours. The boss kicks things off with, "Any updates?" Met with the classic, "Well, the system isn't broken, so we didn't fix it!"

The developers have perfected the art of looking busy without actually changing a thing. Bug reports are met with, "That's not a bug, it's a feature!" Any suggestion for improvement is countered with, "Let's not rock the boat."

They joke about their codebase being an ancient relic, full of comments like, "TODO: Improve this later." Later never comes. They’ve even named their servers after ancient artifacts, because, like those artifacts, nothing changes.

One developer, Alex, suggests updating a library, but it's shot down with, "We'd hate to ruin our record of zero progress." Another proposes a new feature, met with, "Why complicate a perfectly stagnant system?"

"Maintaining Status Quo: When not doing just doesn't do" captures the hilarity of a team mastering the fine art of doing nothing, all while keeping their jobs and sanity intact. It's a reminder that sometimes, the most action happens when you’re committed to inaction—and the jokes that come with it keep the team rolling.

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