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Imagine you go to work at Baby Mulching LLC. This company has existed for two decades, and is dedicated to dropping infants into industrial shredders. Everyone
by sbierwagen 4y ago
Imagine you go to work at Baby Mulching LLC. This company has existed for two decades, and is dedicated to dropping infants into industrial shredders. Everyone hates Baby Mulching LLC, and they're an enormous black stain on your resume, because there is one single thing they do, and it's grind up children.
On your first day, you're asked to design a big toothed wheel. You ask your boss, will this be used to mulch babies? No no no, he says. It will be used to chop up entirely unrelated organic material. You spend three years on it, and once finished, it's immediately incorporated into the Baby Mulcher 3000, the next generation baby mulcher, which can puree one hundred toddlers per hour.
Everyone starts yelling at you for building a baby mulcher. But it wasn't your decision! You spent years working on it! This is so unfair!
Unfair, maybe. But was it unpredictable?
- yifanl 4y agoWhat relationship does this anecdote have to this scenario exactly, other than tenuously drawing a connection between Google and baby grinding?
- literalAardvark 4y agoAs a third party with no skin in the game: no idea but it was hilarious.
- bastardoperator 4y agoI think what they're trying to say is that the stadia engineers should have seen the writing on the wall, coupled with the questionable history/actions of their employer when it comes to products regardless of their own good faith efforts as an employee.
- solardev 4y agoI'm still not really sure what the moral of this parable is, but thanks for the most enjoyable read I've seen here all week, lol.