The Emergency Brake

My friend served around 10 years as a ship mechanic.

They had a certain way of testing the clueless “green” recruits. Here's his favorite story:

One new guy approached while he was chilling:

– "Mate, where do I collect these measurements?”

– "Left of the senior mechanic’s quarters"

– "… sorry, where’s that?" – the new guy shook his head.

– “Oh. Near where the artelka is” – Russian slang for ship storage place.

– “... Where’s the artelka?” – the guy sighs, defeated.

– “Goddamit. It’s right next to where the emergency brake is. Go bother someone else"

• The fella runs around the ship, asks everyone where the emergency brake is. They’re all assholes about it.

• His superior overhears and gives the kid an ass-whooping.

Didn’t even stop for a second to think that there’s no gorram emergency brake ON A SHIP.

I love this little story. I see this kind of stuff like this in my line of work.

Someone says something and then folks run around repeating it verbatim.

Case in point:
Question of “compliance”. Now everyone screams how whatever crypto they have is gonna be “compliant”. Someone smart said it once, so it’s a thing now.

I should also use ridiculous words as counter-marketing, for funsies.

But you guys are too smart for that to ever work… right?