I was in this story in a past life. I've been most of the engineering roles it feels. Luigi is the worst one to be stuck in.
After this job, Luigi tried to get out of the oven business but in every interview after this, "oh you've worked on ovens? Nice, we have a few oven problems to solve here. "
8 Comments
Prox@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 52d
This was a great read! Been a long time since I saw satire this on-point.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 52d
it's just such a perfect allegory for how practically every startup out there works
UniversalFlamingo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 52d
Not just startups, my dude. It's big-ass enterprise too.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 52d
also true
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 52d
I was in this story in a past life. I've been most of the engineering roles it feels. Luigi is the worst one to be stuck in.
After this job, Luigi tried to get out of the oven business but in every interview after this, "oh you've worked on ovens? Nice, we have a few oven problems to solve here. "
treadful@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 52d
God that hits close to home.
davel@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 51d
This reminded me of the venerable (27 years young!) halfbakery.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 51d
nice