Once I suggested to a co-worker that we needed cattle prods to implant certain instructions into the very junior co-workers, after they resisted all our initial efforts to make them comply with some badly needed parts of the process.
He put on a more-in-sorrow tone and lectured me at length until he got around to his punchline.
"NO, Rick! Modern software methodology has developed new and more EFFECTIVE ways to produce software!! We no longer use cattle prods. Ya hit a guy with a cattle prod, he gets right back up and keeps doin' the wrong thing. NOW we have modern, automated, TASER shock-collars! Ya hit someone with that, he STAYS down for a while and has learned his lesson by the time he gets back up."
I had to defer to his superior experience and wisdom.
