You rearrange them to the best of ability, get some commendations on how well the chairs are arranged, and get promoted to the next sinking ship before the current one sinks.
If you're lucky you'll become an expert deck chair arranger and get lucrative consulting gigs on how a different arrangement of chairs could have saved the ship.
Bingo. Every so often, you do ship something and gasp people like it and pay money for it, though. That keeps me on the ship. The moment that becomes institutionally unlikely, I'm gone.
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It's deck chairs all the way down.
You rearrange them to the best of ability, get some commendations on how well the chairs are arranged, and get promoted to the next sinking ship before the current one sinks.
If you're lucky you'll become an expert deck chair arranger and get lucrative consulting gigs on how a different arrangement of chairs could have saved the ship.
Bingo. Every so often, you do ship something and gasp people like it and pay money for it, though. That keeps me on the ship. The moment that becomes institutionally unlikely, I'm gone.