Posts by gotes 471 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2009
And while we're at it, how about a constitutional amendment that no president, vice president, congressman, senator, or federal judge can serve after their 70th birthday.
Agreed. Neither of those senile gits should stand for election again, in my opinion.
Maybe doubIe standards a little considering how we all hate IBM for their ageism, but IBM isn't in charge of the world's most powerful military.
Agreed. It took me ten minutes to figure out how to get moving the first time I used a vehicle with one of these things. I couldn't see any advantage to it at all, but I wasn't aware it released automatically; I'd push the button every time.
Yes, I was wearing the seatbelt, but I didn't RTFM.
I have commented in the past that American spelling doesn't bother me, but I assumed it was down to the personal preference of the author.
However, it does indeed seem to be a site wide thing, which does bother me a bit, especially if written by a British person about a British topic.
The only thing Hive does is switch your central heating on or off, as far as I'm aware. I think the worst that could happen is you're too cold or too hot (with a big gas bill in that situation).
I would like to think the thermostat continues to function offline, but you never know with this IoT shite.
The applicants are providing stolen identity information for background checks.
To lend an air of authenticity to their applications, the dodgy job seekers used stolen personal identification information. The victims whose data was stolen reported their identities being used for pre-employment background checks and more.
Bit I find odd is that people want to watch other people play video games.
Even before "e-sports" was a thing, I enjoyed watching my friends play video games. I'm not into esports btw, but I do enjoy watching other people play video games. It's far more enjoyable to me than watching a football match.
I don't think the problem is a "lack of professionals". It's a lack of cheap Eastern European labour.
I work with several Ukranians and Russians (remotely). The Ukranians (mostly in Kyiv) are still working "as long as they have electricity and internet". I haven't seen any of the Russians, presumably because they can't get paid.
I would go one step further and suggest anyone working in tech support serves time in retail, hospitality or a non technical customer service role. Understand that despite the fact they can be very annoying and stupid, these people are your customers and they're just trying to do their job. Chances are their job is lower paid and more stressful than yours. [I am aware that some of the most annoying "customers" are senior management and directors]
It might be very annoying for a while, but once you figure out how to handle these people they'll be putty in your hands, as it were.
On my first day in my first full time tech support job (with no training, of course) I had a customer tell my boss I was "completely useless". To be fair, I was. I had no idea what I was doing. A couple of weeks later I was the only person she'd be willing to speak to for support.
I've seen too many "Roy from The IT Crowd" type characters in IT. Funny to watch, but no way to behave as a professional.
Hah. I worked at a place that had some fancy automated quality control machines which would check things like dimensions, surface/edge defects etc. When there was a quality issue with the product, operators (or rather the shift managers) would modify the parameters so that the machines would accept the off spec product as first quality. Everything's good in production! We're meeting the requirement of at least 85% first quality product in our shift, another job well done.
Until the calls come in from customers.
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