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It couldn’t have been more precisely tuned to generate outrage, I agree. And yet I’ve seen almost exactly this situation play out before. In my case it was a storage company who didn’t appreciate the senior engineer who worked with all the SAN providers. Whoops!

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For every fake story, there’s a real one out there that’s spiritually equivalent.

This is dangerously close to the "but isn't it crazy that I could have believed it?" fallacy or, more broadly, justifying making up stories to push an agenda because it's "spiritually equivalent" to a real one. Please don't. Truth still matters.

That’s fair. I think the morals of such stories are still worth considering, though. Or is there harm in such moralistic stories that I’m missing?

They're fine if they're explicitly tagged as fables rather than facts.

Oh, you have to go down that rabbithole.

https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/

Trust in notalwaysright.com/all to suck up even more of your life than the orange site already does. Also, clientsfromhell.net and askamanager.org. And I’m certain the Daily WTF, Acts of Gord, and BOFH need zero introduction here. Good luck in trying to distinguish if it’s day or night—never mind what’s true or false—by the time you’re done with that little lot!

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