‘I brought the company to a standstill to make a point': Manufacturing comes to a halt when an engineer weaponizes a software flaw he had been trying to fix for months, ends up getting updates fast-tracked by the VP himself

Every request that upper management makes for their underlings is considered "URGENT," but when the tables are turned and the factory worker engineers are asking their bosses for something, it's always getting back-burnered. There's only one real way to get upper management's attention when it comes to urgent matters from the factory floor—mess with their cash flow. 

This engineer saw an opportunity to update the massive bugs in their company software after months of trying to get their bosses to prioritize the manufacturing workflow. Although the engineering department had been juggling the struggles of faulty software, the bosses didn't feel the heat of urgency until manufacturing and sales came to a screeching halt. 

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