Not only Czechoslovakia, I heard that Facebook users from the Holy Roman Empire had a similar experience as well!

This is true. However, there is a huge difference between not being perfect and being completely unfit for life.

Some my empathize with the people who are wiring their life savings to Nigeria, or who are the target audience of warnings such as "Don't put this plastic bag over your child's head because it might suffocate", but I certainly don't. Fuck them.

Please mod the parent up. It may sound cruel, but the society is becoming increasingly idiotic thanks to the nanny state.

As George Carlin once said, "The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple stuff."

Statement that N megapixels ought to be enough is no different than a similar one made by a certain Mr. Gates a while ago. Shortsightedness at its best.

Having said that, I've never been a megapixel chaser. Factors such as lens quality, maximum aperture and others are of much bigger importance for me. When it comes to sensors specifically, I would always trade one with 15Mp for another which can shoot at ISO6400 with less noise, for example.

Another indication that megapixel wars no longer make much sense is the fact that nowadays even mobile phones compete with SLRs on megapixel scale. But do they really outperform SLRs in general?

The problem is much deeper than enabling such people. People like "Josh" and those who enabled them (their immediate superiors, probably) are merely symptoms indicating that there is something seriously wrong with the whole organization, perhaps even top management to begin with.

In my experience it is usually the management who makes people difficult to replace. At one of my previous jobs my bosses noticed that I can handle the work load and cheerfully ignored my pleas to hire more people. I was forced to work even on my vacation and sick leaves. When I finally announced my resignation, I had to listen to comments such as "How can you do this to us", "You are immoral" (!) et cetera. Go figure.

My words exactly. To bad many managers don't understand the same.

As I noticed is one of my previous comments, this story is really about mismanagement than misbehavior of employees.

People who value their individuality and resist corporate brainwashing are always regarded as "dangerous", especially in large companies. This is no wonder, since a flock of sheep is much easier to control and manipulate than a group of thinking individuals.

Agree. The detail with his T-shirt slogans might indicate a lack of personal manners, if they are truly offensive. But then again, the sense of humor is a very individual thing and usually resides in the eye of beholder.

In my experience, larger companies will be more than happy to get rid of a single good engineer and replace him with 5 mediocre to bad ones to replace him. Ask yourself why.

By the way, we didn't hear the story from the other perspective, from "Josh" about "Eric". Would be interesting.

The fact this guy gets away with being a downright asshole is purely a management issue at the company. The management either decided to ignore the problem, or tolerate him as he is for whatever reason.

I stumbled upon a couple of such people at my jobs, except they were by no means above average and even had no excuse for similar behavior. Fighting them makes no sense, usually. My advice is to ignore them and focus on doing your job. If it becomes unbearable, change your job.

P.S. Somebody who gets insulted by a slogan on somebody else's T-shirt has a serious issue with himself, I would say.

It's electric sheep, you insensitive clod!