• Nepenthe
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    2129 months ago

    But the boxes were taken to the dumpster, yes? With time saved, even? Someone in a managerial position would rather hire, train, and pay a devoted garbage person instead of three adorably unpaid raccoons?

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          20XX: The Raccoon Rebellions reach their peak. Multiple systems are in turmoil as the conflict rages. New fronts emerge everyday as guerilla factions splinter. Bodies litter the streets like piles of… trash. There is no end in sight.

          • I Cast Fist
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            39 months ago

            Pretty sure 20XX is full of robots and randomly generated stages 🤔

            Maybe it’s the raccoons that make the robots?

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            Look at you anxiety driven humans. You don’t know the racoons goals and dreams, maybe all they want is a huge pile of trash in the midle of the city. We should hear their demands first

    • I Cast Fist
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      39 months ago

      The manager is clearly 3 raccoons in a trenchcoat who don’t want competition

    • NielsBohron
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      189 months ago

      Waste Management Engineers= Waste Management Pandas

      Waste Management (Engineers) / Waste Management = Waste Management (Pandas) / Waste Management

      Engineers = Pandas

      Checks out.

  • credit crazy
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    1199 months ago

    If someone can successfully train racoons to do their job I’d probably give them a raise and some deodorant

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      Under capitalism they would be fired and the raccoons made to replace them for no pay.

      No joke there are tons of stories of people writing programs to automate their job, management finding out, and basically getting fired while the company appropriates their automation code, since from their profit chasing perspective why should they pay someone if they can just take the code they wrote which will do the same thing for free?

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        229 months ago

        Which is why you always implement a dead man’s switch that you can turn off if you leave the job amicably. And never leave your source code behind if you can avoid it.

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          The dead man switch at one of my last places was the companies incompetence and lack of forethought.

          When I left, I told them that the files for their system that I designed, built, and maintained was on the laptop I was returning to them.

          They wiped it.

          They also had zero clue how to use the programs I had nor any other aspect of that system so they really shot themselves in the foot then shot their other one to test of the first one hurt

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          Then they’ll get their lawyers involved to fuck you over. Since you probably coded it on company time with company equipment, they own everything and can sue you if you put booby traps in it. Hell there have been contracts in tech that say that everything you code while employed, regardless of whether it’s related to the business or not, they can claim, whether that extent is enforcible is another question but just the mere fact that plenty of companies are brazen enough to try that shit speaks for how much they expect to get away with, and they’re probably right.

          Individuals rarely win against businesses as a design feature of capitalist society.

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            119 months ago

            Well then at the very least do what I did: put in the code an Easter Egg that wishes you a happy birthday on your birthday in the copyright blurb at the bottom of the intranet page.

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          Lol you think source code you write at work is yours to take with you?

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            129 months ago

            If you aren’t in a dev job it would be incredibly easy to prevent the source code from falling into company hands.

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              Until they sick their lawyers on you

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                It is hard to get source code even from devs employed as devs in most of the world, getting source code from average office plankton is outright impossible.

                • @zalgotext
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                  Now you’re just making stuff up lmao.

                  The premise of this thread is someone writing code that automates them out of their own job. Even the most incompetent company is going to make sure they have that code before firing the author.

  • gullible
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    889 months ago

    The entire premise is fake, but that stupid fake manager is still driving up my blood pressure.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    839 months ago

    Look if you can get Raccoons to do your work for you, it should be an instant promotion to manager.

  • Bahnd Rollard
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    439 months ago

    Is noone going to comment on how someone trained a bunch of animals to help with cleaning? They were more than an employee, they were a Disney Princess!

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    269 months ago

    Sounds like staff is gonna train the racoons

    You get work done for you, they get trash. Win/win

  • Flying SquidM
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    We had a raccoon living in our attic. I would have liked to train it to take the trash to the curb, but instead it just peed on the floor until a stain came through to the other side.

  • Bappity
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    139 months ago

    I hope he was paying those raccoons a fair wage! outsourced work is often done in unethical ways!