You sexualized a perfectly good popcorn bucket is what you did, now look at it, that theater chain's got anxiety
  • HikingVet@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    7 months ago

    Why don’t companies have someone in product development who’s entire job is to point out less than desirable ways people will use their products, or protect against rule 34 or the like? The internet has been around long enough that it shouldn’t have been a surprise that there were people who wanted to fuck a plastic lamprey eel. How as this even surprising?

    • MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      7 months ago

      Hire a 13yo boy just to look at your products and point out all of the ways it can be badly interpreted

      • pikmeir@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        7 months ago

        They made a movie about that once with Tom Hanks. Guess these companies never watched it 😏

      • HikingVet@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        I would argue that QA saves you money. In that, it detects faulty products and in doing so limit liability.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          7 months ago

          I agree whole heartedly, the “it doesn’t make money” argument is common and the fight to do proper QA is rarely won.

          • Malfeasant@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            The problem is QA vs QC. Quality control means you actually have to do stuff. Quality assurance just means “I assure you, the quality is good ;)”

        • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          QC detects problems. QA predicts, mitigates, and resolves problems. QA is the first to go when it’s cheaper to scrap problems rather than make perfect product. QC goes when companies can outsource it to supplier-reported inspections and then leave it to the customer to act as final inspection. The Amazon method that everyone has to follow if they want to stay competitive

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      Because that employee would be by far the most overworked one in most companies?

      Or maybe just because most companies don’t care as long as you keep giving them money without costing them any 🤷