--- title: (comic) When You Get a Chance | daily.dev description: A comic illustrating the common workplace frustration when urgent requests disrupt carefully planned work priorities, forcing developers to switch from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-when-you-get-a-chance-7zalgacrs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: (comic) When You Get a Chance | daily.dev og:description: A comic illustrating the common workplace frustration when urgent requests disrupt carefully planned work priorities, forcing developers to switch from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-when-you-get-a-chance-7zalgacrs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7zaLGACrS.png og:image:alt: (comic) When You Get a Chance og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # (comic) When You Get a Chance **[Work Chronicles](https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles)** · 1 min read · 45 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comic illustrating the common workplace frustration when urgent requests disrupt carefully planned work priorities, forcing developers to switch from prioritized task management to first-in-first-out processing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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