This picture, uploaded on Reddit’s MurderedByWords forum, portrays 6 white, male workers (representation in the workplace, anyone?) metaphorically ‘pushing’ their work, which is represented by cubes.
One guy has it all figured out though. While the others are laboriously shoving their cumbersome cubes, he has ingeniously devised an easier way and is ahead of the pack, happily rolling his sphere.
Simple, right? “He who is creative and thinks things through gets ahead.”
“Wait a second. What exactly is the message being conveyed here?” they wrote. “Feel free to sabotage the product for the sake of making your own job easier?”
Working from the invented assumption that these metaphorical workers were delivering a product, what followed was a glorious demonstration of anal-retentiveness, as both the picture and the message were expertly picked apart with powerful pedantry.
A place where telling a bad joke can easily be taken the wrong way and get you fired from your job.
Or perhaps the joke is on us, and the whole thing is so meta that the pedantic person is themselves satirizing the process of taking things too literally… We will leave it up to you to decide!
Here’s what people had to say about the pedantic poster
What do you think? Are we taking ourselves too seriously these days? Is the internet making us angrier, more opinionated and less able to read between the lines? Is there still a place for metaphors, satire, sarcasm, and irony? Let us know in the comments below!
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