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I've been renting hundreds of people who do nothing for years. From Capgemini. Nothing Japanese about it!

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But they received no gratitude at all while sending endless requets.

Can you tell us more about how you’ve been using this service?

GP is being humorous, and cracking a joke about consulting companies and their productivity.

Oh had no idea who that company was lol. Was going to look it up.

most people would get downvoted for that. GP seems to be special :-)

Substitute McKinsey, Bain, or Accenture for a US version of the joke.

Worked at a company that did the same for $20 MM.

and how is that relevant to this story?

It's a joke, and it's funny. Lighten up.

Jokes like these are literally not allowed on HN.

It's so funny that you said 'literally'.

I think I missed that part of the HN guidelines, could you point me in the right direction?

At the risk of getting too meta, the words "joke" "funny" and "humor" don't appear on the HN Guidelines[0] page at all. Nothing in there about staying 100% serious 100% of the time.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I mean, the second sentence of the "In Comments" section:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

In this case it's snarking at the consulting company, but is that alright because they're not actually involved in the story or thread?

Jokes aren’t necessarily snarky - I don’t read any malicious undertone from this joke, which I think is necessary to be considered snarky

wait, are you making a joke there?

Wow I can't believe I'm actually downvoted for this lmao. Eternal september indeed. Guess I'm getting old.

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