They’re doing contract work and getting paid by the hour; the guy with the sphere shortchanged himself.
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This is tiresome. It’s the same phenomenon that causes every internet comment to fail:
Shit’s complex.
It can’t be boiled down and still be as accurate. Sure, editing is useful and helps focus a message, but it has its limits and even still, there are multiple aspects to consider that you’ll never cover without 5 pages stating your stipulations and assumptions, known limitations and exclusions. I really doubt the creator of the poster had nothing else to say on the matter. So congrats, smartass, on your ability to crap on other people’s work and entirely miss the point they were making.
I’ll give the smartass a little credit at least for suggesting a useful alternative.
What was the name of that store i used to get my adverbs? Yeah, it was Lolly’s. I used a comma after an interjection because the feeling was not too strong.
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My take is that the job the poster shows is “making your cow-orkers look bad while at the same time making the job of the folks down the line much much worse.” This is a common and valuable talent given how often it is encouraged by bosses.
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“The right not to work is the right to be free.”
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Wow, way to waste, what, seven-eighths of the material? May be better to carve one cube into a wheel-barrow or a sack-truck, then use that to transport many cubes to the destination in the time it takes to drag one cube.
Now I’m suddenly wondering if all those ancient pillars were transported as blocks and carved in situ, or if they were carved to cylinders and rolled to the site.
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How about just giving your employees the tools they need to do their job efficiently.
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Last century there was an anti-traffic-light-jumping campaign in the Netherlands which sported the rather lovely slogan “Door rood, dood”.
EDIT - which, while I look at it, looks as if it could also work in California.
Your cute stack of balls is also highly limited in the volume of balls that can be stacked in a given space. As can be plainly seen the photo, each layer has fewer balls than the layer below. Boxes on the other hand suffer no such problems.
If this is an intentional misplacement of hyphen, I don’t have enough <3’s to give.
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Learned it right here on BBS back in the day. Made me laugh and then someone explained that it was old internet gold. So I have adopted it.
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How about just giving your employees the tools they need to do their job efficiently.
You know that goes against company policy.
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I can’t hear you over the sound of those moving goalposts.
won’t stack.
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Just for the record, German is actually “worse” than AmE in this respect, we have dispensed with any difference between adverbs and adjectives centuries ago. The “-lich” ending is used like the “-ly” ending in “friendly” (“freundlich”) to form an adjective from a noun; and every adjective can also be used as an adverb without any added suffixes.
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Being predictable doesn’t preclude expecting you are surrounded by idiots that are trying to kill you. It does mean fucking using your signals and not doing random unpredictable things.
So true.
But a sphere has a lower moment of inertia, and therefore rolls easier, especially since a cylinder would have higher mass.
I actually see the poster as a commentary on the nature of management-driven work culture itself. “Here do this, in this way.”
“What if I find a better way?”
“Then you’ll just confuse everyone.”
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I bet Sisyphus thought he was pretty clever when he carved his cube into a sphere for the first trip uphill…
…later, not so much.
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And all because he tried to cut a few corners.
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