Hail the Omnissiah! Praise be to the machine-god.

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What book(s) has changed your life?
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    2 years ago

    I hated every particle of Playor Piano when I read it and still do today. Granted my field is automation and I am an engineer.

    I am making the world a better place. Freeing humans from degrading filthy boring work. You know what really irked me the most about that novel? The population lived in a freaken utopia and couldn’t say one good thing about it.

    I would love to have the lives of those “workers”. Think of what you could do with a life where your job required nothing out of you. Go have 8 kids, learn conversational French, become the world champion at the knife game. They start life on near the top of Maslow’s hierarchy and the author had the gall to heavily handed compare them to chattle slaves. Yeah I am sure people getting sold for sex or getting whipped to harvest cotton all day are really comparable in lifestyle to people who are bored at work.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
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    2 years ago

    Might be local government. Me and sales have this argument pretty often

    Me: it is in the spec

    Sales: no one noticed it except you

    Me: thanks?

    Sales: no one is going to care

    Me: then take it out of the spec and resign everything.

    Sales: why are you making a big deal about this?

    Me: because it is in the spec that we signed and if we don’t honor the spec they can backcharge us.

    Sales: that won’t happen

    Me: you are right because we are going to follow the spec. If you don’t want me to please email me, the department head, and the client specifically ordering me not to follow the contract that we signed.