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Have you been to a Brazillian buffet house? At these restaurants, waiters come around constantly with some meat, and will slice it off for you if you are showing the green YES:

If you need some time to relax and digest you show red:

Sometimes it would be nice to show this card to management. For example, when you get into the programming zone, wouldn't it be nice to say "please don't come around with small talk right now?"

Back in the day, I put in a policy which meant that management couldn't bug my dev team during certain hours (unless they planned a meeting in advance etc). It was amazing to see the productivity gains from this simple measure.

Don't be scared to show the red card! :)