[rolph]

if you work in a restauraunt, and decide salt is cheaper than sugar, and fill the bowls like that, someone will find out, like your manager.

telling your boss we are selling sugar, when its actually salt, is a good recipe for footgunning.

[weikju]

No, the boss is asking for more salt. Employees are then replacing sugar with salt and getting bonuses, no matter what the customer reactions are.

[colejohnson66]

And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you. Unless you’re the only deli in town.

[weikju]

But all the other delis are doing it as well. So is your supermarket. So is your farmer (somehow they figured out how to add salt to the veggies they sell at the farmer's market!)... Whaddya gonna do? Grow your own? THE SEEDS SHALL HAVE SALT TOO, has been decreed...

[reactordev]

“We’d like to introduce you to Copilot Enterprise”…

Yes, the only deli in town. Office, Server, Desktop, now your TV, pretty soon your car.

[baby_souffle]

> And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you.

Right, but that's somebody elses problem a few quarters from now.

[malfist]

I got my promo for increasing salt adoption, what do I care? I'm jumping ship next week

[lamontcg]

> Unless you’re the only deli in town.

pretty much.

back in the before times, we broke up AT&T, but we don't do that anymore.

[xgkickt]

Then your social media & newsfeeds are buzzing about salted coffee, and your work has mandated salt in the coffee, insisting that it increases productivity, and if you’re not partaking you might fail your next performance review.

[colejohnson66]

Any press is good press, amirite?

[readthenotes1]

Accountability and responsibility are not so clear and large, insanely profitable, behemoths like Microsoft.

[themafia]

Yea, and that's the reason we pay taxes and tolerate a government, they're supposed to provide a counter force to this apparent corruption.

[hiddencost]

You've clearly never worked at a large tech company

[shermantanktop]

“In Q2 our P0 goal is to deliver Project Footgun. Your focus on delivering this important goal will put us in a good position to finally fund your favorite tech debt projects.”

[malfist]

Its now Q2, you worked your ass off on delivering Project Footgun, excitedly signing in the next morning to work on that tech debt to a message from your manager that the PMs didn't see value in the P1's and were transitioning to Project Footgun 2.0 The Shotgun