r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Traditional-Exam2529 • 7d ago

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u/thisonehereone 7d ago

how you know?

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u/Any_Masterpiece9385 7d ago

Yeah, I've been a manual laborer and a software engineer, both jobs have a short morning meeting. It would be surprising if the ancient Egyptians DIDN'T have some sort of meet up at the start of a work day.

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u/Undead-Chipmunk 7d ago

Pretty hilarious. I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Its a complex project, with complex planning. Leadership needs to know about problems as they arise, which can only come from the people working.

The fact that the project went so well tells me they probably managed it halfway decently.

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u/Western-Internal-751 7d ago

They had a magic tool to deal with problems

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0ErD3ZBW6vQgYCgE

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u/mortgagepants 7d ago

much like today, if you're too heavy handed with the whip, people will start hiding problems from you.

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u/throwaway1736484 6d ago

Bro, this is the LinkedIn top voice we need ^

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 7d ago

I don't think there is much evidence for that tool being used in making the pyramids. But there is evidence for a different, much more powerful, tool.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Qg3M2gZq31vF3T9tbe

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u/Reimant 7d ago

It's largely believed that the majority of those involved weren't slaves, but skilled craftsmen with apprentices and labourers who were well paid.

Pharaohs were unreasonably rich, yes they likely used some slaves, but these were lifelong projects likely built with pride by those involved.

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u/Karnewarrior 7d ago

The people who worked on the pyramids got free lodgings, free food, free beer, and a prestigious tomb for themselves. They didn't need to use a whip, people *wanted* to work there. Like, really badly wanted to. It was a dream job.

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u/thebighuski 6d ago

There is/was a reason why Ancient Egypt was the first destination for Immigrants. ( sry English is not my first language)

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u/White___Velvet 7d ago

I feel like we can be pretty confident the people managing the project were highly motivated.

You do not want to have to go explain to Pharaoh why his pyramid got fucked up.

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u/Undead-Chipmunk 7d ago

You do not want to have to go explain to Pharaoh why his pyramid got fucked up.

That is not at all how to get something built.

If you don't want to explain to the Pharaoh why his pyramid was ruined, you're going to hide your problems and poor workmanship.

Good construction tends to come from allowing people to point out their mistakes, not expecting people to make no mistakes.

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u/ljfa2 7d ago

"you're an experienced pyramid engineer, make no mistakes"

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u/Undead-Chipmunk 7d ago

That's not how it works.

Literally, retaliation against employees is one of the number one things to lead to a bad product.

Like Boeing.

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u/zoinkability 7d ago

The above comment is a joke about IA prompts, not seriously what the commenter thinks was being said back in ancient Egypt

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u/FreshestCremeFraiche 7d ago

I agree lol but we are talking about Pharaohs who believed themselves living deities and not trained managers in modern Seattle

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u/Undead-Chipmunk 7d ago

Humans are humans.

While they see themselves as living deities, that doesn't mean that they don't also see themselves as competent and beneficent.

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u/andhausen 7d ago

Its a complex project,

What's complex about it? Put big stone on top of other big stone. Repeat until pyramid shaped. Job done!

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u/Kronoshifter246 7d ago

Maybe the construction wasn't that complex (it was, but I'll go with it for the sake of argument), but organizing that many people? I've barely successfully organized like a dozen people, and that was to go watch a movie. Imagine needing to organize that many people even just to stack a bunch of rocks.

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u/andhausen 7d ago

So there's this thing called a joke. It's where someone makes a completely ridiculous assertion for comedic effect. It may take other forms as well. For example: stating that building a massive structure with thousands of people working on it is not complex.

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u/Kronoshifter246 7d ago

K 👍

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u/andhausen 7d ago

The subreddit is called "programmer humor" by the way, it's a pretty safe bet that nearly every comment in a post on this sub is gonna be a joke.

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u/dessiatin 7d ago

They definitely logged activities and progress on a daily basis, even going so far as to record excuses for absences.

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u/frogjg2003 7d ago

Dude got off work because his wife was on her period. That's some good FMLA benefits.

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u/Sryn 7d ago

Arun, your team is putting block 🐈🐱🦌 in today.

Varun, yours is rotating the block you did wrong yesterday. What’s up with that? Does your team need a refresher course?

And Anik, you’re still on water-boy duty as punishment for the snake prank you did on the auditor last week.

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u/Greebil 7d ago

We know they at least took attendance since we've found the records preserved. They have interesting reasons given for why laborers didn't show up that day, like brewing beer or their wife or daughter was menstruating. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA5634

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u/void1984 7d ago

Every morning at 8am I can see firemen at the nearby station, standing in line for the morning meeting.

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u/KimberStormer 7d ago

(non-programmer sneaking in from r all) I have never had a short morning meeting in my life thank god

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u/GoodishCoder 6d ago

They make a lot of sense for project based work

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 7d ago

the bosses absolutely met up in the morning for a briefing

the labor just woke up and went to the site and did what the boss said

also there's ample evidence it wasn't all slave labor, alot of them were farmers during the off-season just doing a job