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# Greek task list
https://infosec.exchange/users/masek/statuses/115507451151625748
## Orphean task
When you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.
## Daedalean task
When you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.
## Medusan task
When your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.
## Tantaline task
When success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.
## Pandoran task
When fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.
## Odyssean task
When the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.
## Narcissian task
When the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.
## Promethean task
When you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.
## Orestian task
When the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.
## Thesean task
When the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.
## Achillean task
When your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.
## Penelopean task
When you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.
## Midasean task
When everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.
## Gordian task
Not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.
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