The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Shared constantly as a painfully accurate depiction of absurd requirements, clueless management and estimation pressure.
What it is
A comedy sketch of a business meeting in which an engineer, the expert, is asked to do impossible things like draw red lines with blue ink.
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What Hacker News said
Cites bmoresbest55 · 2015-02 · on “If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers”
I really enjoyed the post. I reminded me a lot of this Youtube video( [this video] ). I understand this is a comical post but as the son of a carpenter and understanding the profession decently well I would say these are none of the questions that would be asked of a carpenter. There are however many important questions a person would need to answer to be hired as a carpenter or more likely be able to join a union. There they would be able to get experience and training. Then the company the union carpenter work for already knows the skills and abilities they have and there is really no need for any interview. Any GC or sub asks for guys to do a job. The local sends them the qualified guys. Prett