Do not.

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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.

Raccoons aren't a protected class and I will continue to exploit their lack of rights u til such time as they garner enough support to be represented in the government and change the laws.

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.

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

Maybe it's the raccoons that make the robots?

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

is this a Lemmy post of an Instagram post of a Reddit post?

Yes, it's very meta.

The internet is terribly inbread and I love it

It's very doughy indeed.

This proofs that everything is just a repost of a repost of a repost.

It's been that way basically forever. I'm old enough to remember YTMNDs showing up on Ebaumsworld.

You missed the pun train there champ... follow the breadcrumbs.

Yeah, I thought it might have been a little half-baked. At yeast a few people got it.

I was there, too, but it didn't bother me as much when I was fresh out the oven. Maybe now that I've gotten old and crusty my cynicism just makes all the reposts seem a little stale.

Not Trash Pandas. Waste Management Pandas.

Waste Management Engineers= Waste Management Pandas

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

Engineers = Pandas

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Checks out.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Until they sick their lawyers on you

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.

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.

Even the most incompetent company is going to make sure they have that code before firing the author.

Yes, even most incompetent company will try. Good luck trying in countries with working labour law.

Not paid as programmer = GTFO from my source code

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

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

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!

How difficult would it be to teach raccoons to manage IT infrastructure?

Asking for a friend.

Sounds like staff is gonna train the racoons

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

If the job is done, where is the problem?

Miserer should put people into misery. Miserers are not happy when someone is not miserable.

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.

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

In my old condo you didn't really put the trash bag in the dumpster. The raccoons were waiting on the dumpster and you'd hand the bag to them basically.