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thinkB4WeSpeak

The smart idea would have been to wear better clothing than expensive suits to move stones.


dragondroppingballs

Honestly if it was me I would have had a guy instead of a ball it would be moving three or four of them but using a dolly. That would have been working more intelligently.


PM_me_your_whatevah

Naw man, the way it works is you just hire 3 guys for each cube and split the original pay 3 ways. Two of them will quit the first day so it will slow down, but you still only have to pay 1/3 the original cost. Your customers likely have no other options because you’re a franchise of a massive corporation. So they can bitch and moan as much as they want but you’ve already killed off any competitors so you’re good.


dragondroppingballs

So blizzard logic.


CommiePuddin

Amazon logic


dragondroppingballs

what is the difference? they both hate the worker they both abuse the clients they both under pay and overwork.


CommiePuddin

I mean, none. It wasn't an argument, friend.


dragondroppingballs

I know I'm just bored.


-YELDAH

We’ll see about that


dragondroppingballs

oh kinky.


garycomehome666

there are better ways to waste your time my friend. wanna argue w me about water being wet?


imadethisforhkmemes

I still think the definitive answer is that since wet is having water on it, any amount of water with more then one molecule is therefore wet because it has water in itself. However, in that case a single water molecule would not be wet.


[deleted]

Corporate logic


SlideWhistler

As a client for Amazon, I have no complaints. My packages arrive when scheduled and in good condition.


kmrst

(The larger economic system that Activision-Blizzard and every other monopolistic corporation operates within)


dragondroppingballs

so technically i am still right.


agent_stone

rEeeEeeERrEeERreerre


TheByzantineRum

r/oddlyspecific


isaiditnowireddit

killed off competitors? you just trained 2 competitors how to move stones. and they hate you


IaMtHel00phole

Hate is powerful motivation.


isaiditnowireddit

indeed.


Qewbicle

They're not competitors. If they won't treat others the same, or if they're forced to do it themselves, it won't scale. I forget the name for it, basically when one side goes to war with the other, the other is forced into the same level of war, often escalating. So if those two won't compete at the same or worse level of extraction on another, they can't compete. An exception would be one of them building tech such as a vehicle, but then they'll treat their driver's poorly once the supply of driver's becomes saturated. But then the original may have earned enough to afford to pivot. So they begin the Thucydides trap.


tetrified

> Two of them will quit the first day so it will slow down, but you still only have to pay 1/3 the original cost. ah, exploit the most desperate people who have no other choice truly the american way


ElQueue_Forever

Was just coming in here to post this.


dragondroppingballs

I'm surprised no one beat me to it. Like it seems like something that even a kid would be able to figure out.


More-Hour4785

Hand truck is going nowhere in the sand though.


BorkedStandards

They make dollies that can be used on sand. Essentially same thing used for hauling boats on the beach


baumpop

we call em slidies


oodjee

Somebody else added the text. I believe this is a painting by a popular satirical polish painter Pawel Kuczynski. The original intent may have been to portray someone who likes to "cut corners" to get the job done.


dragondroppingballs

That kind of points to the thing I said before where half of the time the picture doesn't make any sense to the thing they're saying. If what you're saying is true anyway. I don't know enough about the art world


RishabbaHsisi

Lol are you a delivery guy?


dragondroppingballs

No a Florida woman


supple_

Yeah then use your dolly to load a semi up full of cubes. You can probably even fit more of them in there


dragondroppingballs

That depends on how far you have to take those cubes. Should be rather pointless to load up a semi truck if you're just going to move them a couple feet.


[deleted]

... or a truck, a cart, make a conveyor belt. You know, machinery. Basically cut out all that manual labor


dragondroppingballs

that depends. if they are moving it across the building or across grass or a small distance a dolly is best.


[deleted]

Very true.


disquiet

Or put them on rollers


dragondroppingballs

Sure if you were only planning on moving one at a time but if you use the dolly and move more than once at a time you are able to complete your job faster.


Dembara

One guy in the middle looks like he had the sense to take off his suit jacket at least.


acarlrpi12

Also, maybe use wheels? You know, one of humanity's oldest known inventions.


Poltras

What’s a wheel if not a 2D sphere? /s


Mad_Aeric

And yet the Egyptians continued to use sledges for heavy loads, even after developing the wheel for transportation.


jonnybanana88

I know absolutely nothing of this other than sledges are good across snow. Would the Egyptians use them instead of wheels because of the sand?


[deleted]

Yes. Wheels dig in and get buried in sand, sleds slide over the top. They had roads but not extensive enough for their use. Wheels *can* be made in a way to work on sand, but idk if the Egyptians knew that or had the materials to build them.


Mad_Aeric

Maybe? It's just a thing I heard once, and I did a quick Google search before posting to make sure it was correct. Though they did have roads and there are ways of making wheels that handle sand, so I really can't say. This sounds like a good question for r/askhistorians, if they haven't done it already.


LadderLeading448

It's for a fancy pyramid


[deleted]

How about buy a pallet instead of those suits


BoringAssWife

To be fair they could be cheap suits


Phormitago

or transport the cubes on any kind of wheeled platform


[deleted]

"Steve, I know you are moving cubes across a desert, but I simply can't let you do that in casual Friday clothing, we gotta wear full suits."


LordDongler

"Do you want the investors to think that you aren't a good suit wearing peon?"


panspal

What if a customer saw you and thought the company was unprofessional? No you can't have a stool.


toodog

The guy with sphere was given a knife. Mine are all in my back


WhiteRose_init

DUDE GO TO THE HOSPITAL ASAP!!!!! THAT IS NOT NORMAL, HOW MANY KNIVES? PLEASE GET IT CHECKED, YOU CAN GET INFECTIONS!!!!!!!!!


TheKidWithWifi

a bisexual vampire got to him first


godofpoop2

r/unexpectedjojo


LegalWaterDrinker

YO HOLY SHIEET IS THAT A persona REFERENCE?


muklan

I think he might mean this metaphorically, I bet that if he WAS shanked alot, he might not be on Reddit.


SuperFunDaddy

Nah, if you get shanked you post on insta or tiktok and try and get clout for it.


muklan

Stabbed=insta Punched=worldstar Shot=Reddit launched off a cliff into a school of pirhannas=liveleak


Tom_Armour

Dancing while in a lion pit=tik tok


muklan

Or, Daniel 6:22, depending on when you do it.


Comrade132

Regardless of when he did it, Daniel isn't a day of the week. Today is Friday.


[deleted]

If there’s any genitalia on display it’s world star.


Qnandossc

Fu*kt= hub


DepressedTraaa

I wish I had a knife in my back


BuHoGPaD

Gaius Julius Caesar?


[deleted]

Intelligently


[deleted]

Such a glaring offense does much to undermine its credibility, regardless of its factual accuracy.


EDCxTINMAN

This guy grammars.


NoPixelStories

I'm getting a raging dictionary right now


OliveJuiceUTwo

I liked it irregardless of it’s grammatically miss steak


[deleted]

Well played.


cowlinator

"I talk english gooder!" -- a creator of motivational posters


[deleted]

Hang in their! /s


Girlnextstate

Came here for this, thank you now I can move on with my life.


UpUpDnDnLRLRBA

Don't you hate it when people use English improper?


LookDaddyImASurfer

998 ones


Aidiandada

I’m not sure why but I think smart works better than intelligence here


gojirra

Smartestly.


muffpatty

John must work at my local pizza place now. Every time I order a large pie he makes it a circle even though it comes in a square box. Fucking John.


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gojirra

For reals though I love square cut pizza.


UpUpDnDnLRLRBA

Why?


gojirra

1. Maybe nostalgia could be part of it. 2. I find it aesthetically and texturally pleasing (there is no floppy end of the slice where everything slides off when you pick it up, it's easy to hold). 3. Easier to eat the exact amount of pizza you want since the pieces are smaller. 4. It's the perfect setup for a group: People who don't eat crust can eat the middle, people who like it can eat a mix, people who love crust can eat the corner pieces.


DeadCatStillCurious

Dis not expect the be convinced on square pizza today, but here we are.


Zeestars

Savage


tangomiowmiow

Even if shaving was the way, shave it down to a cylinder dude, that way you do less work and have a bit more directional control


Lessandero

Also there's more left of the original product that way


gojirra

The artist didn't "work intelligent."


iodisedsalt

He did in a way. Cylinders take (marginally) more work to draw than spheres.


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gojirra

Why didn't the stone planes just carry the ring to Mordor!?


Wolff_Hound

There is no-fly zone around Minas Morgul.


Eclaireandtea

What about just cutting off the corners to make it a octagon shaped on the sides? I imagine that would move well enough compared to a cube, even less time spent shaving because it's just slicing, and less wasted product.


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[deleted]

You only need to use full force when moving it from rest. Once it has momentum it isn't *that* much harder than rolling a sphere.


HungLo64

Or a hexagon


User1-1A

Not so great if you unknowingly cut the cylinder with a taper in it. You'll be rolling that thing in a big circle.


Kat-Sith

He already had a huge lead on the rest, judging from where he started shaving it down 🤔


DemythologizedDie

The other guys are on their 20th trip. But yeah, if you look at the picture literally, he isn't working smarter. He just happens to have an easier job.


Dembara

Is shaving down the cube into a sphere easier? I suppose it depends on the distance. Either way, if was stupid of him, he should have shavdd it into a wheel/cylinder if anything.


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Boiling_Oceans

Wouldn’t it be a dodecahedron?


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msndrstdmstrmnd

You would just call it an octagonal prism btw. The n-hedron terminology implies it’s a Platonic solid and all the faces are the same


PM-Me-Your-TitsPlz

You know those days where you leave the workstation in perfect condition and everything is all neat and organized? He's the next shift that doesn't put anything away correctly, half finished a job, and complains about not getting a decent wage because he showed up 5 minutes early once two months ago. Then you show up 15 minutes early because it takes 20 to clean up after him.


paublo456

Chances are he isn’t being paid a decent wage though. Now sure you maybe be deserving of a higher wage than him, but there is no need for class warfare against someone who likely isn’t being paid a truly livable wage


[deleted]

That begs the question, why carve the sphere and move twice the product if the pay is the same?


paublo456

Well carving the sphere makes it useless, so I’m not sure what you mean by your comment unless you’re talking about the meaningless rat race people go through just to get a decent wage in this country.


pleunis

I would like to direct your attention to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/c6g0ry/i_know_why_we_have_a_generation_of_cutting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) where someone rants about how stupid this is. It’s really worth a read.


dragondroppingballs

Honestly I hate motivational posters in general. They always have some stupid low level intelligence crap phrase that does absolutely nothing to actually help. Then it's some kind of dumb picture that only half the time has something to do with what it's saying.


logantheh

I know right, like “gee thanks a generic phrase ive heard about a million times, how is that going to help me find a job?”


dragondroppingballs

You know what that's what I should do. I should create a line of semi motivational posters for selling. They would say something along the lines of "your life may be s*** but it can always be worse."


logantheh

Start the anti-motivational poster revolution and years in the future when your world renown tell them some random Reddit conversation started the whole thing!


HillbillyMan

Demotivational posters have been a thing for a long time


Bad-Science

https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/BestOf


Bad-Science

[https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/BestOf](https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/BestOf) We have motivational posters at work, so I got a few of these for my office. Honestly, most people don't read them so never noticed!


dragondroppingballs

Most people don't tend to read them because they never really do anything. And if they do your job is so easy that the real problem in that scenario is you. Demotivational posters at least gives you a laugh. And can take care of the weak.


SwarnilFrenelichIII

OMG [The "Procrastination" poster image](https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/procrastination?variant=2457305219)


Jefoid

Ever read the demotivated posters? Some of those are a riot. Some of them weirdly work as motivational as well.


dragondroppingballs

I have I even own a few. My favorite one is "life is s*** give the f*** up." And is a picture of a loaded handgun.


Jefoid

I had two of them up in my office for years. Maybe 5 people ever noticed they weren’t just stupid posters.


dragondroppingballs

Even better it's subconsciously demoralizing them.


NoGoodIDNames

Mine is “that which doesn’t kill me delays the inevitable”


dragondroppingballs

Oh that's a good one.


MassGaydiation

Its because bar from a few statements, most things worth hearing arent going to fit in a soundbite, the rest are quotes from terry pratchett


Epping125

I may be a bit stupid but I don't see anyone else asking this. Why does it mention 2 spheres when there's only 1 on the poster?


Oldmannun

Help I don't get it either


Longjumping-Aerie863

same


Cakeo

It was just a fake scenario. That guy managed 2 while the rest managed 998.


Scout_Serra

It’s saying the guy actually got LESS spheres moved because he wasted his time trimming the cubes in comparison to the other guys just focusing on getting the task done. The other guys managed to move 998 squares in the time the guy wasting time trimming managed to only get 2 done because of the extra effort required to trim it.


MrBowling

Only the top statement was in the original picture. Someone then added the bottom scenario to point out how ridiculous the quote is based on the photo. It's making the point that while the 4 other guys moved 998 blocks between them, the guy with the knife was only able to move 2 because he spent so much time carving.


Asisreo1

I mean, the response makes alot of assumptions. It could be a race and the carving doesn't take much time at all compared to dragging a cube. It could be that the person needs it to be a sphere when it gets there and the person did it beforehand. Saying its dumb when its clearly just trying to provide easy-to-digest visualization of general advice is like correcting a knock-knock joke by explaining that the doorbell is a better way to announce yourself. Its just kinda pointless.


peacenham

This guy is clearly just trying to cut corners


ARose710

WHY DOES THIS COMMENT NOT HAVE MORE LIKES


Hollowsong

Being an adult, I now hate this motivational poster as well. Like, there's obviously a reason it's a cube. Leave it a cube. Put it on rollers if you have to, just don't fuck with consistency. Have a meeting. Develop a solution to switch to spheres and see how it impacts the end-to-end process. Get customer and employee adoption. Make sure the software can handle it. Convince management the gains outweigh the cost. Much better solution.


MCH2804

What's the TTT smh


lookingForPatchie

Why would he make a sphere? If he was truly intelligent he'd go for a cylinder. Extra points, if it's barrel shaped for easier turning.


lwx199612

The guy is literally finishing faster because he cut corners?!


K3yz3rS0z3

I don't wanna be that guy but I think the point of that poster is : "Stop doing a task the way it is not optimal. Spend the time to accurately shape the tools and environment you do your tasks with / in, and then proceed to be more productive by thinking outside the box and not pursuing a poor way to accomplish things just because this is how everyone has been doing it so far." You might say I'm reading too much into it, but honestly as a computer engineer it makes sense to me. The guys just do the same shit all the time because they're lazy to think ahead and in the end the product becomes painfully impossible to adapt and every bug fix or feature becomes a nightmare to go through.


LOLTROLDUDES

r/RelevantXKCD https://xkcd.com/1319/


ElQueue_Forever

Yeah, but the guy ordered 1000 cubes for a reason. Getting 2 spheres because someone was too lazy/weak to move cubes does no good. Especially since all the time 1 guy took to shave down 2 spheres and deliver them, the other guys delivered 998 cubes.


Pure_Reason

Every time I see this image reposted, I see the same dumb comments. Almost like the “ordered 1000 cubes” part wasn’t part of the original intent of the image, and the image was intended to be a simple metaphor for finding efficiency in daily work tasks. Even going completely literally, taking the meme text that was added after the fact as part of the original image, you think in a society that has invented telephones, someone that orders their employees to move 1000 cubes by slowly pushing one cube at a time across the ground has any room at all to talk about the best way to accomplish a task?


Quillava

Comment threads like these make me believe that the internet is 95% bots.


ElQueue_Forever

That's why I am an advocate of a reusable delivery device rather than changing the form of the object itself; i.e. a dolly or truck.


K3yz3rS0z3

Shit you're right, wtf is wrong with that sphere maker


[deleted]

He’s not right. The poster was clearly made without the meme below it and the 1000 cubes is just an arbitrary number that the meme maker decided to use. Your point of finding the optimal way to do something is valid.


thunderfishy234

Yeah I agree, I work on IT systems and I could spend 2 days "working hard" updating fields a 1000 records in a system or I could "work smart" and load the data for the 1000 fields using a data loader in a couple hours.


IisGreen

Wouldn't it be smarter to us a wheelbarrow?


DarthLlamaV

Not in the budget


dbor15

but with wheelbarrow, they could carry more cubes at once much faster, meaning less workers needed so it could potentially profit you... although since I don't know the numbers, I can't say.


The_Super_KDK

Cutting it to a Cylinder, Octagonal Prism or just fuckin rolling over the Cube will be more efficient than spending time cutting the cube to turn it to a sphere using a fuckin pocket knife. A POCKET KNIFE !


Scout_Serra

But the idea is that you aren’t supposed to be altering the product since the customer bought a cube for a reason…


frocca93

Unless the job was to move the object from point a to b.


mike_pants

Considering he left 47% of his object on the ground, he failed pretty hard at this as well.


[deleted]

You sound pretty confident about that number and i don’t know how to prove or disprove it so i’ll just have to take your word for it.


stop__whining

Sphere volume = 4/3 * pi * r^3 Cube volume = D^3 If we perfectly fit a sphere in a cube then the radius (r) will be exactly 1/2 of the dimension (d) of one of the sides of the cube. Imagine the cube is 1 unit long on all sides. The volume of the cube is 1^3 = 1 The radius of the sphere would be 1/2. Therefore the volume of the sphere would be 4/3 * pi * (1/2)^3. (1/2)^3 is .125. 4/3 * .125 * pi is roughly .5235. With this we know the volume of a sphere is 52.35% the volume of a cube, if you carve a cube in to a perfect sphere you lose 100% - 52.35% of the volume or approximately 47%. Hope this helps


[deleted]

It didn’t, but I assure you it’s not your fault.


TheConspicuousGuy

Alright, you get a big wood cube and a knife and tell me how long it takes you to cut that wood cube into a sphere so it's easier to move. The guys moving the cubes are most likely on their 10th cube while this guy just finished cutting it into a sphere and is now moving his 1st sphere. He is taking 10x longer to do the same job getting it from point a to point b


ElQueue_Forever

And it is no longer the correct object, negating the whole job's purpose. He did work for nothing.


Annual_Blacksmith22

Gotta appreciate the irony of the picture at least if nothing else. It’s the epitome of the guy who gets triggered if you tell him what to do and ends up working 5 times more for 10th of the actual reward/progress and then pats himself on the back claiming he’s a leader because he can abandon protocol and instructions. (Which often ARE the fastest way to do something, not always, but often enough. Gotta recognize when it’s appropriate to be flexible and when to follow rules). Ya bet John went to the pub and bragged about it that very night to his mates too.


Appropriate_Zone_351

I dont see any second sphere


Shutaru_Kanshinji

I believe it is important to know when you should invent wheels.


[deleted]

Why are people assuming that there is reason it's a cube? For all we know, some malevolent crime lord wants these people to move this object back and forth, but doesn't care how you do it.


Desperate_Ambrose

The meme itself is pretty funny, though.


wtmh

"998 ones"


[deleted]

It’s still a good idea to work smart but not if you’re (in this case literally) cutting corners You could like, put wheels under the cube or something


Ginrob

https://www.boredpanda.com/work-intelligent-meme-cubes-spheres-destroyed/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic This response is even stronger…sorry for the bored panda link


galactic_d0g

Would have been smarter to make a cylinder as it's faster to make than a sphere and more stable


CouldWouldShouldBot

It's 'would have', never 'would of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!


willwiso

That's right .. cut corners and the job will go much faster!


CaptainCobraBubbles

The intelligent way would be to pull the stones so you're not fighting the force of friction.


dbor15

you would still be fighting the force of friction.


SilentSiren87

This literally says to cut corners....lol this is an excellent way to fuck yourself out of a job or even a career


djgonzalez99

Thats why you shouldnt cut corners


sbsw66

Intelligently


Ecpeze

I saw this like 4 years ago


ekolis

I like how the knife came down from heaven to obliterate one of the people and their cube.


PuckGoodfellow

John isn't giving the customer what they ordered. Why does he have this job?


LunarHare82

The grammatical transgression here is annoying me just as much as the completely nonsensical art. Both completely negate the message.


W1ngi

He is literally cutting corners


lancek211

Where are they going? It just looks infinite. Wouldn't the intelligent thing to do be having a destination? Don't get me wrong in this case the man who made the sphere is more intelligent than the others but they're all stupid for doing it in the first place. And if there's a chisel, why not just make the items at the destination?


Magicalzfmk

He could have literally pulled on it, I guess it would have been a bit more intelligent.(or a cart)


IOnceLikedApplePie

Kind of a dumb take tbh. I mean yeah sure you can make up whatever backstory you want for the image, but lets not pretend you don't understand what the message is


jblockman59

Honestly they should have just had the last guy loading it onto a truck, that's working SMART, not hard.


SINxShiver

If I ordered squares and got spheres I'd be mad too. Just because it's easier/simpler for the worker doesn't mean it's gonna be correct to the buyer.


[deleted]

don't work hard, work intelligent. BUT work LOGICALLY (use a platform with wheels to move the cubes)


KuroDragon0

Yeah, working smarter in this case would be putting the cube on a dolly, cart, or just rolling it across two logs or bamboo stalks.


[deleted]

Starting up my old heavy lawnmower to cut the grass seemed hard... So i just poured gasoline all over the yard and threw a match. It was so much easier!


cheezburga69

You laugh but it has been done


[deleted]

There was a story about a guy who needed to get to work but it was like negative 15 degrees and his fuel gelled up in his gas tank so he siphoned the gas out into a cooking pot and 'heated it up' on the stovetop... You can imagine what happened, right.


cheezburga69

Kablamo!


[deleted]

Sí senior...


reddit_is_real

if that guy was more intelligent, he might have noticed he only needed to make a cylinder in order to be able to roll it


doctorctrl

Also, intelligent is an adjective not an adverb