@drurowin said:
I can go back and delete Facebook and Twitter posts if something like that happens.
This "reassurance" is befuddling.
@drurowin said:
I can go back and delete Facebook and Twitter posts if something like that happens.
This "reassurance" is befuddling.
At one call center, you could visit the restroom, no problem. But there was a key required to LEAVE the hall leading from the restroom. If you forgot your card, well, better bang on the door or hope someone else was leaving soon. I wondered whether they thought so lowly of their employees, they wanted to trap them in there to increase productivity.
@DrPepper said:
@NoOneImportant said:discrecionary performance enhancementProduct cycle
- Salesperson meets with customer (expensive dinner, paid for by company, travel and hotel expenses paid by company)
- Salesperson sells product to customer complete with non-existant feature, to be delivered when he gets back to the office.
- Salesperson calls office on way to airport, tells development manager about new feature and timeline.
- Development manager and development team work long, hard weekend and overtime hours to complete feature by promised date.
- Salesperson signs contract.
- Salesperson gets "discrecionary performance enhancement", trip to Hawaii, etc for job well done.
- Development manager gets another call from a different salesperson. Developers again work long overtime and weekend hours.
- Development team get tired of doing all the work and not getting the enhancements; leave.
- Salespeople get promoted to VPs of something or other.
Wrong on #4. The feature is not completed; it ends up being a partially-functional abomination that only technically meets the terms of the contract.
@TDWTF123 said:
@morbiuswilters said:One of the defining characteristics is that it's cobbled-together language where most of the rules and definitions are merely descriptive. There's no "right" way to spell color, any more than it's wrong for words to take on new meanings or for entirely new words to be invented.There is actually one hard and fast rule in English, and it governs everything from orthography to pronunciation, via grammar and semantics: clearly and unambiguously convey your meaning.
I could care less. It's a moot point.
@morbiuswilters said:
so of course they moved shit like the Delete and PgUp, PgDn keys like a bunch of jackasses.
On the plus side, they put buttons like "Start Web Cam" and "Visit the manufacturer's website" in places that are easy to accidentally graze.
At one call center, you could visit the restroom, no problem. But there was a key required to LEAVE the hall leading from the restroom. If you forgot your card, well, better bang on the door or hope someone else was leaving soon. I wondered whether they thought so lowly of their employees, they wanted to trap them in there to increase productivity.
@fire2k said:
Or make a spoiler-list of stupid memes nobody cares about anymore so the new posters don't post them.
After 6 or so years, the name "Paula Bean" still makes me giggle a little inside. Should I simply not bother to reproduce?
Oh joy. The term "horny" is apparently permitted by the content filters at work.
My brain says this "ucnt" variable is short for "user count".
But my gut says that the contractor was trying to send someone a subliminal message.
@snoofle said:
We don't have staging servers (they cost money).
Better than spending money on staging, only to have it mirror dev instead of prod?
@derari said:
Tending a garden is also always the same. The value of a tended garden is just the same as of a completed sudoku.
My garden consists of almost all edible goods (providing about .3% of my caloric needs)
I derive a great sense of superiority to know that, if normal food supplies disappeared tomorrow, it would take several hours longer to starve to death than the hoi polloi.