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temporary job
/ˈtɛm.pə.rer.i dʒɒb/ - n.
1. Term struck pending the removal date promised at creation, now three years past and load-bearing in four reports.
Struck
See also
- brittle jobA job documented entirely in the muscle memory of the one person who knows which step to re-run first.
- cron jobA line of asterisks on a server in the closet, quietly running the business since a tenure no one present can confirm.
- it runs on dave's laptopThe architecture diagram for a critical daily process, redrawn every time Dave takes a vacation.
- shadow pipelineThe pipeline the org does not know it depends on, discovered the week the person who ran it stops answering.