He laughed so hard she printed the screenshot" is the part I keep coming back to, because twelve bucks for a genuine laugh from your boss is a pretty good deal no matter how you slice it. But I have to wonder if the bar is just really low here. A robot voice saying the wrong name is funny for like a day, and then it is just a screenshot on a fridge. I am not trying to ruin the vibe, I just think we call a lot of dumb stuff legendary when it is really just mildly funny. If the whole floor is asking for the link though, that is a sign it landed, so maybe I am wrong.

I saw this play out with a guy on my team last year. He asked our lead why we did reports a certain way and if we could cut a step, and that one question got him pulled into planning meetings. I did the opposite and just stayed quiet and cranked through my list. It worked fine but nobody really knew my name outside my little corner. When review time came he had a whole set of things he had touched and I had the same old stuff. Asking stuff makes you look like you care about the whole picture, not just your small piece. Took me way too long to get that.