is this a Lemmy post of an Instagram post of a Reddit post?
Yes, it’s very meta.
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?
I see no problems
Until the raccoons unionize and demand healthcare coverage instead of just table scraps.
Train another raccoon to bust unions
Impossible, raccoon class consciousness is too strong.
Darcy the human wants healthcare. Trained trash pandas want apples. Why are we even discussing this?
Look if you can get Raccoons to do your work for you, it should be an instant promotion to manager.
acivement unlocked: Manager of Racoons
Unfortunately, the promotion to raccoon manager does not come with a salary bump.
It comes with raccoon henchmen. Which is better.
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.
Corporate only doesn’t want the raccoons trained because then they might have to pay them.
If someone can successfully train racoons to do their job I’d probably give them a raise and some deodorant
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?
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.
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.
