OHSHIT REPORT: Who lost the CEO's pot joke?

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When something goes terribly wrong here at Mediocre Laboratories we draft up internal memos called "OHSHIT REPORTS". We use OHSHIT REPORTS to help share details across the company about what went wrong, coordinate work across teams for how we're going to fix it, and dive deep into root causes. Here's a copy of a recent internal OHSHIT REPORT we created.

tl;dr

The company's CEO, @snapster, requested that a pot joke be included among the options in the February 25 poll about baked goods. It wasn't.

Background

During the daily content review meeting on February 24, @snapster expressed disappointment and surprise that a poll about baked goods, which mentioned brownies right in the question, did not culminate with a pot-brownie joke in one of the choices. @dave conveyed this request to staff writer @JasonToon via email thusly: "Need to add pot joke to the poll" (Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:58 AM Pacific Standard Time).

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@JasonToon wrote the following joke for the poll: "I only bake things that get me baked in return, brah". He entered that joke as the next-to-last option in the Meh content management system, cutting and pasting the "Some other answer you'll bake up in the forum" into the seventh and final field. It was believed that this was adequate to satisfy @snapster's request to inject some reefer-oriented humor for the benefit of Meh's bong-ripping customers, who are so blazed on primo cheeba they'll laugh at the slightest reference to the almighty ganj.

Then @JasonToon forgot to hit "save". The poll launched on Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time without a pot joke.

Impact

Meh visitors who read the day's poll suffered a 100% loss of weed humor, although the loss is harder to quantify in absolute terms given the lost joke's uncertain humor value.

Future Mitigation Protocol

@JasonToon and any future successors will:

  1. Hit the fucking save button when you want to save something, dumbshit.

  2. Set an alarm for 5 PM Central time to make a final review of content for the following day.

  3. Lay off the brownies when editing polls.

P.S.

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