Jaunty ArtSaw this on LinkedIn and I think it perfectly sums up LinkedIn
Dave@JauntyArt needs a long, stupid post about how hard work can get you through anything
Robin Syl 🌸
@JauntyArt if a machine with 1 cog can make 10 products per hour, then a machine with 6 cogs can make 60 products per hour
Simonoid@robinsyl @JauntyArt more cogs = beterer
Flesh 🐀 
@robinsyl @JauntyArt You're forgetting about synergy!
A machine with six cogs could produce as many as 120 products per hour!
A machine with six cogs could produce as many as 120 products per hour!
InspireExpire
josh g.
angst-ridden wanderer@JauntyArt I wanna hear the sound when they start up the drive gear 🫨
Quokka (on the move...)@JauntyArt looks very AI.
But i've worked actual places like this. they hire so many managers that they all butted heads and fuck all got decided and managed.
But i've worked actual places like this. they hire so many managers that they all butted heads and fuck all got decided and managed.
Alun Jones
LisPi@ftp_alun @JauntyArt "Cooperative movement", heh.
MArtin@ftp_alun @JauntyArt in the picture from linkedin, three of the gears where connected and the gears is locked and cant move
@torsten @JauntyArt five doesn't work any better than three.
@ftp_alun @JauntyArt you are right and I need to pay attention
@torsten @JauntyArt no problem.
ghostdancer@ftp_alun @JauntyArt A bad ripoff of the Olympic logo that also could not work IRL. Absolutely brilliant!.
@ghostdancer @JauntyArt I don't think they put that much effort into it, to be honest, I think they just slapped a small number of duplicates of a random "gear" shape onto the page, and dropped colours on them.
Jeff Grigg
@ghostdancer @ftp_alun @JauntyArt
This looks workable, until we notice that the (center) black and (right) red gears mesh [badly!!] behind the green gear. So the whole thing is "locked up" and cannot work.
https://www.alamy.com/olympic-games-logo-cogwheels-image210826173.html
DeltaWye@JauntyArt LinkedIn is a special area of hell below the deepest pit of hell
The Turtle@JauntyArt given enough torque, I'm guessing the blue hubless one will be the first one to deform and get half its teeth stripped, allowing the other three to freely accomplish something. Or not.
If the hole in the middle is the size of the shaft, then the blue one in the back would be reinforced with a massive shaft, leaving the purple one in the foreground to get torn apart.
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Assuming that one of the remaining two gears is being driven with force, the three other gears are doomed, because their teeth are inappropriately sized to mesh properly. Also, the blue seems to have one more tooth than the red (and there's no problem with that), but the two gears in the background are too different in size to match speeds across those four gears. Something else has to "give." (Probably the teeth?)
dxzdb@JauntyArt 😊 So it's not just me that LinkedIn makes their skin crawl?
T2R@JauntyArt ya, that's not gonna mesh well.
Leather Cub Andrew Aû@JauntyArt and a few of those cogs don't seem like they would fit quite right either
cathos@JauntyArt 4-way synergy!!! (everyone asking, why doesn't it work????)
josie :3c@JauntyArt that site truly does grind my gears for ultimately no purpose
Mike@JauntyArt That hurts to look at 😆
LikesOldMacs@JauntyArt the fingers tho
Stéphanie@JauntyArt this is a jigsaw puzzle, isn't it?
Doug Barry 
@JauntyArt @codinghorror I was in some HR mandated leadership thing on Tuesday. They had some clip art on the slides with exactly the same problem. That’s how it feels when I need HR to do things though so at least it was accurate.
Jim CampbellYeah, unless (or in fact, even if) this is some kind of Ouija board, nothing is moving anywhere!
Siegfried.
Reid 
@JauntyArt I’m no mechanical engineer, but this image keeps getting worse the longer I look at it
the teeth of the small gears away from the cameras don’t even match the big ones, same with the red one to the left, and that’s on top of the very obvious “The only way the three big gears will spin is if they’re ethereal and phase trough each other”
bovaz@JauntyArt The metaphor is even better: if you remove the gear held by the man with the suit, everything else starts spinning.
Ollie Boermans@JauntyArt @awfulwoman who knew there were stock photos of adding more developers to a late project
TeflonTrout 
he/him@JauntyArt pictured:
Cognitive dissonance
No, that's all right I'm already leaving
Tofu 
@JauntyArt If this were twitter and a post from Adolf Musk, you'd get in trouble for saying that.
Lyle Solla-Yates@JauntyArt 18th century mill workers just shaking their heads
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@JauntyArt LinkedIn is so stupid. I don't get it. Yet everyone wants you to have one.
Ross of Ottawa@JauntyArt That set-up will rip the teeth off the gears, and since visiting LinkedIn is like having your teeth pulled, it's accurate!
kwayk42@briankrebs this seems about right
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Tanquist@JauntyArt
Obviously AI. STEM students are way smarter than that.
Obviously AI. STEM students are way smarter than that.
kasperdI think we can blame this on the education system: https://9gag.com/gag/angg6Qn
David Plisken 🏳️⚧️ BLM! 🇵🇸@JauntyArt at an old job, where upper management did no work, just toiled on powerpoints and awful business-speak rhetoric, one of them had the genuis idea of comparing us workers to cogs in a machine. An awful metaphor to belittle folks, and they didn't realize it. They displayed 3 gears in various sizes and numbers of teeth all interlocked with each other. I tried to explain that due to physics this wouldn't work and they didn't get it. Appropriately described working conditions there though.
Charlie Chaplin Swallowed by a Factory Machine - Modern Times (1936)
@JeffGrigg @JauntyArt that was my experience exactly!
Steve D. BallantyneLinkedIn: "immobilization through integration"
fanf42@JauntyArt such a pity the photo miss the perplexed face of the diversity approved team wondering why their future Nobel winning invention isn't working
Mang(ion)e Tout@JauntyArt 🤔 ... its a virtue signalling machine!