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Five panels. A manager notices the empty backlog tray on P’s desk. The mustachioed P mascot, with black stick arms and white cartoon gloves, gestures toward a robot at a laptop and says the agent helped it finish early. P presses its gloved palms together and asks to take the rest of the day off. The manager laughs loudly, then presents a towering stack of folders labelled “The Back-Backlog” and replies with a deadpan “No.” Both P and the robot glare with lowered brows and disgruntled expressions.

The Back-Backlog

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Somewhere in that stack is 'migrate off jQuery', filed in 2014.

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Appears in Where Does Software Engineering Go From Here? (Part 1)

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Panel 1. The manager gestures toward an empty tray labelled BACKLOG on P’s desk. “I noticed the backlog is empty.” A robot sits beside P at a laptop.

Panel 2. P gestures toward the robot. “The agent helped me finish early.”

Panel 3. P presses its white-gloved palms together hopefully, with thin black arms bent inward. “Can I take the rest of the day off?”

Panel 4. The manager throws his head back and laughs, holding his stomach. “HA HA HA!” P waits silently.

Panel 5. The manager presents an enormous stack of papers and folders labelled THE BACK-BACKLOG, towering above the desk. His expression is now completely flat. “No.” Both P and the robot look disgruntled, their eyes narrowed beneath lowered brows.