#verstapiastri

*long sigh*

🌞 day version: max v and oscar, two of the company’s most talented devs, are put together on a project to launch a new product in a timeframe that other people have said is “impossible”. the whole team expects fireworks, but it turns out the two of them are just really good at their jobs. they have a brutally efficient 30 minute daily standup with the team and everyone works super hard but smart and it’s clinically excellent. like. the industry has never seen such a painless and efficient build before. also they are the most aggressive demonstrators of end of day clean desk policy. oscar only has a single potted plant on his. max has only pictures of his two cats in minimal black photo frames. they both use wet wipes aggressively.

🌚 after dark version:

the same thing, but lando and charles start to get jealous about the time max and oscar are spending together. to the point where other people notice and comment. and also oscar and max talk in unintelligible programming shorthand and have too many in jokes. so then, after hours, oscar and max discuss what they should do about this. having run through waterfall scenarios and decision trees of all possible options, both of them blurt out, at exactly the same time: