Posts by Nastybirdy 20 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Mar 2016
Ah well. Time to find another mobile provider. I'll never do business with Vodafone (or Vodafone in a trenchcoat) after they hounded us for YEARS for supposed non-payment of a bill...after my wife left them, with nothing owing. They tried to send us to debt collectors, they emailed, they sent letters, they called us. I lost track of the number of people I talked to trying to get this sorted and it took the threat of legal action to get them to back off.
I tried to object to my data being used (in the UK). I filled out their stupid form, explaining my reasons, and at the end it says that oh, it needs to verify I really am who I say I am, so it's going to send me a code to my email that I can use to verify myself and submit my objection.
I've since tried on three different days, on four different devices. No code. Ever. Colour me unsurprised.
Let's say it again, boys and girls.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence.
Freedom of speech is also the right of companies to go "I don't like what you're saying" and take their money elsewhere and no amount of sad little tantrums and threats of lawsuits from Manchild Musk will change that.
It was designed to unify the supply chain and cut down on problems with communication and documentation. The problem shipping companies like this have is that everyone uses different systems, stuff is still in paper, some places have different requirements than others. A single error in a bill of lading, for instance, can end up costing a company tens of thousands of dollars to rectify. Hell, even knowing where your shipping container is can be a nightmare depending on who you're dealing with. The idea behind it was sound. The technology allowed all participants to communicate far more easily with each other, to see where their stuff was, and view all the documents associated with each consignment in one location.
But like the article says, nobody wanted to sign up, and it being tied so heavily to Maersk was a big part of that. They didn't want to dance to Maersk's tune, regardless of how many assurances they were given that the system wasn't beholden just to what Maersk wanted.
I worked for IBM for fourteen years, the last three of them in the team that was responsible for both Tradelens and Food Trust from the IBM side. I jumped ship because there was no work, no customers, no money coming in despite management constantly telling us to just wait, the customers would come, the work would come! Honest! Any time now!. Aaaaaaany time...
They cut the team twice in the three years I was there, so honestly this doesn't surprise me and just makes me all the more glad I quit when I did.
Is that they didn't do this before now.
I lasted 15 years at IBM before I'd had enough. It's a company that's lost its way and doesn't value its staff. It's the death of a thousand cuts. Bit by bit it just became a worse and worse place to work. This is just the latest nail in the coffin of a company I was once proud to say I worked for.
I simply have no reason to upgrade my processor right now, certainly not for fscking WINDOWS of all things. My (admittedly somewhat aging) rig can still run pretty much every game I throw at it at high settings with minimal issue. So yeah. Fuck off, Microsoft. I'll stick with Win10, thanks. I have no idea what you're trying to do with this nonsense but I think you're in for a short, sharp dose of reality really soon.
Same issue here. I recently bought one of the Secret Labs chairs and went for the fabric option rather than pleather. And now almost every time when I stand up, one or more of my monitors cuts out and has to be turned off and on again. I reached out to Secret Labs about it and they recommended getting a humidifier for my office which does SEEM to help...a little.
What an utter ballache.
This is with 3 23" AOC monitors as well, but oddly it almost always seems to only impact the middle and left one, never the one on the right.
Well that's lovely and all, but given the abrupt shuttering of Lavabit.com back in the day is STILL causing me problems with recovering accounts, he can sod off if he thinks I'm giving him my business for a second time. His grand gesture was all well and good, but I bet I'm not the only customer it caused a shit ton of trouble for.
