“Oh my god! The engineers are revolting!”

“You’ve worked here all these years and you only just noticed that?”

Why does this feel (in a fun and positively humorous way) like something pulled straight out of Douglas Coupland's "J-Pod"?

Love the picture, but I think it's the opposite: engineering's defence of the announce-o-tron went down for a moment, design pushed into the breach and gained a brief moment of unsupervised access. Now they face the consequences.

You're giving me flashbacks of Tesla's beleaguered engineering team.