There are four words in the English language that can instantly raise a developer's heart rate faster than a production outage at 5:58pm on a Friday.

"Can you just quickly—"

That's it. That's the whole horror movie. You don't even need to hear the rest of the sentence. Your nervous system already knows.

The Setup

It usually starts innocently. Someone slides into your DMs, or worse, walks up to your desk in person (the audacity), and says something like: