Why do NTs Need to do things in Unison?

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Taking initiative and being proactive is only a positive if it improves the situation. He made the workplace more efficient but also more dangerous by leaving the fryer unattended. A side eye while you help a coworker with boxes is leaving it unattended.

This is the problem with narrow focus. If you only look at one metric (in this case efficiency) an idea can seem perfect and other people seem stupid or hive minded if they don't accept it. But if you expand your focus to include other metrics (in this case safety) an idea that seems great can actually make things worse.

I googled OSHA restaurant regulations (God help me) and they simply say "never leave a deep fat fryer unattended". They don't go on to define "unattended" so it's possible that being near it while actually doing something else may not break that regulation. But I wouldn't count on it. When somebody gets hurt because an OSHA regulation doesn't get followed, it's the employer who gets punished, not the employee (by fines). This regulation would protect employees from being required to simultaneously do other tasks while using the fryer by an employer who wanted to save on labor costs. It wasn't written to slap down proactive teens but there you are.

In a tight labor market and with an adult employee it would have been worth it to explain the risks of doing something else while frying. But with lots of people looking for work and with teens who tend to ignore safety warnings, firing is a predictable outcome.

Kindergarten nap time seems like a time for teachers to get a break from the 5-year-olds.
I remember my preschool teachers eating lunch during preschool nap time.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. (Billy Graham)

Uncoachable kids become unemployable adults. Let your kid get used to somebody being tough on them! That's life, get over it!

Children hear everything you say, and they mimic everything you do. Give them a good example.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

The problem is then an out of context problem. For whatever reason, it never crossed his mind that he was creating a more dangerous situation. How could he have possibly known he was creating a dangerous situation whatsoever?

There is no 'hive-mind' for someone telling someone else they're stupid. The person who was told they are stupid, or who has perceived that they have been told they are stupid, fires you because they don't like you. When you tell someone lower than you that they are stupid, that person has no recourse, so they cannot fire you.

That is not hive-mind. That is called looking out for yourself. People who understand social structure and nuance can leverage it to their advantage. That is also not hive-mind, that is still an individual looking out for themselves.

Your assertions of NTs having a hive-mind are ridiculous. All that anyone has is a sense of self-preservation. NTs use social structure and nuance to their own individual needs. If you are unable to understand that, then that's probably because you're poor at understanding social nuance.

Social structures arise from a variety of factors, but a desire to maintain a structure because of 'hive-mind' isn't one of them. In fact, I'd say that not wanting things to CHANGE is an exceedingly autistic trait. Social structure is and always will be a patterned meta view that of what individuals feels are best for them, whether it be by matching personal morals, personal wealth, personal pride, etc. even in the most conformist of cultures.

It is how ANY meta look at individual pieces works; the individual pieces are what make the whole. Even if you look at the whole as a whole, the whole is not deterministic of itself, the parts determine the whole. It is a difference of causality.

Hivemind might actually even be able to predict behaviours fairly well, and that's totally fine. But it's not an explanation of why, it is only a thing to put overtop of an existing structure to help you better predict it.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. (Billy Graham)

Uncoachable kids become unemployable adults. Let your kid get used to somebody being tough on them! That's life, get over it!

Children hear everything you say, and they mimic everything you do. Give them a good example.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

Proper employee safety training is how he could have known, which obviously wasn't done like it should have been, not just stating what the rules are but explaining why they are important.

I don't know about eternity but I can buy a teacher can affect things for 1000s of years. Case in point: Socrates was kind of a teacher. I do accept that what a person does can have ripple effects. Sort of like the butterfly effect when a butterfly flaps its wings and 1000s of years from now a tornado forms on the other side of the globe. I will kind of buy this.

I absolutely agree with you on this. He needed training as well which I don't think was given to him. More than likely though, it was a cost and time saving measure to not provide it and for a lot of people it probably was common sense to them so the employer didn't bother. I don't know. I'm just guessing so I may be wrong.

"This is your strongest argument and if we talk math/science/logic, etc. there are cases where this is true,"

That is my only point. All the other things were me pointing out how that is so in specific examples.

"but in animal behavior the pieces are irrelevant to the whole, that the pieces conform to the whole is all that matter"

I 100% disagree with this statement. I think that you're just fitting a macro scheme onto something because you don't understand the micro schemes. You think the structures of people individual people are illogical and not self-serving at all, when they are not illogical at all and are -only- self-serving. You fail at perceiving these patterns and learning, and you -know- you fail at this, so I don't know why you then insist on saying they're illogical.

"Deviations from the meme or the training result in punishment, this is how the hive-mind is developed"
If this were the case then you would be in it too.

I pretend that I understand a lot about how this all works, but I'm pretty sure that I would sleep better at night If I didn't understand any of it.