Well I did say “for same reason lots” XD so yeah, basically.

Then sales reps can rope in new people with “It’s industry standard! It’s easy to hire people who know this!”

Based purely on names, about 90% of those are HARD pass from me.

The other 10% are a soft pass.

Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.

It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now it’d cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the “We cause less damage than a change costs” folks stay.

Heh, yeah but my metrics don’t care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are! “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” X100

100 calls an hour BABY.

sigh

So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don’t trust clients to do it. It’s very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.

So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it’s approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don’t wanna give them the needed files early for… reasons never explained properly to me.

Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.

Then we do it all over again for the live.

Welcome to corporate policy that’s been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.

There’s always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!

I haven’t been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these “problem solving” meetings from management, where they don’t actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.

Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.

Except… if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.

So wouldn’t they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?

Someone posted to the class discussion form with the bit about being an ai bot still included.

I wish it was a joke.

I didn’t do great in that class, but it was me getting 70% for not wanting to try and explain a mathematically concept in 500 words! They won’t take that away from me.

Well now have a new service to use!

I’m so tired of Nordvpn and raid.

Like if you’re playing an indie game that sponsored the video, that is sick.

I in no way wanna hear about man scaped while watching a Pokémon video.

I mean PI’s are legal.

Laws are complicated. But as long as they don’t cause a nuisance and stay on public property, they’re no more invasive than paparazzi’s after all.

Could just be their policy. Don’t know more I’m afraid.

Baby sitting my mom’s dog and that’s my cat! He wants that spot.

Happened to my mum!

She said she felt like someone was following her as she kept seeing a new car outside and she didn’t know who it belonged to.

My sister who lives with her said she was crazy.

Surprise surprise, few months later she gets a letter with pictures of her sometimes leaving the house saying they did an investigation.

Since the pictures were mostly her limping heavily to take her service dog out to go to the bathroom it was fine.

But yeah its no joke, but makes sense. My mom has been on disability near 10 years, that’s 400k+ in benefits paid out. Paying 2k for a private investigator only has to work a small percentage of the time to save money.

Spend 30 minutes chatting = fine

Us playing a game on break = distracting

They missed after unloading an entire clip into an unmoving car that had a handcuffed suspect??

I mean that’s great to hear, but this entire story is so confounding.

Umm the article left out if the person inside the car survived.

Well I couldn’t make the deal too tempting, or someone would think they’re funny and make a bot instance and get votes to like 1 million.

Congrats! You are now monetized!

You will now get $0.01 for every lemmy post you make that gets 100,000 upvotes!

Hopefully freedom of religion does something helpful, as the Bible says 40,000 times to home the homeless and feed the hungry.