Dirt Road Junglist posted:

Could y'all knock it off? It's a lot of scrolling for no reason.

Assorted Gubbins posted:

Dirt Road Junglist, buddy, you're usually right on but in this case you seem to be taking the wrong view for some weird reason. No one's disputing (or should be disputing) that reading my posts through every last word of them will take an absurd shitload of time and it probably does NOT make sense to put in the effort to read all six thousand words. But it's quite clear that I've done my best to extract every last moment of attention out of the Something Awful reader, which means providing the absolute maximum I can get away with in every area of my posts and doing my best to prevent any ideas or attempts not to treat my posts as the essential utility they are. Notwithstanding the billions and billions of words I as a longposter have put into the posting box which you then just skipped over (the 200+ words a few posts up being one of the most egregious), or the myriad of emptyquotes additional posters have filed to fight every single person like you who's ever floated the idea of shorter posts (usually with the absurd claim that it would be "a lot of scrolling" for them), the biggest argument against your statements is that posters from every other modern Western country HAVE quoted my major posts, and if it WERE just about longscrolling, we would have fewer posters by now emptyquoting my dense literary efforts. Sure, I have SOME brevity, in SOME posts, but there's a whole lotta big posts where brevity either isn't available at all or is available only in certain paragraphs. Friend of mine reads my posts from Silicon Valley right near Google - does he get shorter posts? Nope! In a dense posting history with 10 million letters and one of the bigger wordcounts in the thread (my last post, not the one from a week ago, the one a week ago is actually quite small), where the average wordcount is in the 6 digits, you can't loving get shorter posts to your screen, because there's no competition and I'm not offering it.

(OK I think that's enough also I have actual work to do)

Arquinsiel posted:

My bank will let me directly navigate to either https://www.fakebank.com or fakebank.com just fine, but there's no redirect and their cert has been only valid for www since at least... *checks* June of this year, when I reported it to them. TBH I think their customer support just isn't aware of how to get in contact with website techs at all. Likely outsourced to some third party that gives zero fucks.

Shugojin posted:

My internet is really slow can you send someone out to look at the physical connection?



"Let me just look here well it looks like there's almost no usage at all" turns out she never connected the devices to the router in 5 months

Thanatosian posted:

Unless your bank is massive, I virtually guarantee their website is outsourced.

RFC2324 posted:

I've had more than one person ask me to look and see if I can tell why their internet is slow, and it turns out their only devices are all cellular and they never realized they had to switch off the cellular network by joining the wifi. They had internet, they just didn't understand the mechanisms that delivered it

Arquinsiel posted:

My dad did this today. It was fun to try explain that he had to turn off his wifi connection when the broadband was down, even though he had mobile data on.

RFC2324 posted:

I actually sorta understand this, people are just used to it automagically switching when they are in range of the wifi, and tbf, the ability to detect when wifi is failing to deliver internet and fail over to cellular is fairly common nowadays(my last 3 phones have done it, tho I think the oldest one had it added in an android update)

klosterdev posted:

Most people think about where their internet comes from about as often as they think about where their water and power come from.

Vigil for Virgil posted:

https://twitter.com/AnsgarTOdinson/status/1334015546979803137

Knormal posted:

On the topic of home network connection issues...

Vigil for Virgil posted:

https://twitter.com/AnsgarTOdinson/status/1334015546979803137

Thanatosian posted:

Unless your bank is massive, I virtually guarantee their website is outsourced.

Renegret posted:

I interviewed for an IT job at a local credit union and I struggled to figure out what they actually did all day since everything was outsourced.

Even trouble calls in the same building were outsourced to a 3rd party.

nitrogen posted:

You wouldn't believe how many massive banks have it outsourced too

Knormal posted:

RFC2324 posted:

I worked for a hosting company that outsourced all their support operations, but still had an in-house team that literally just answered phones/tickets, then opened other tickets to the appropriate 3rd party. who then logged into our internal systems to do the thing.

it was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, and was clearly a call center to appease a manager who didn't want to manage skilled workers

Renegret posted:

Best I can tell, it was much the same kind of setup? Thinking back on it I probably dodged a bullet with that place and I was too naive/desperate to pick up on it, along with my own lack of experience and confidence to pick up on it.

The director I interviewed with made a big hub bub about how much work they had backlogged and how late everyone was staying every day to keep up, but made a point to draw out their multiple vendors who handled everything, and oh yeah we do lots of stuff, we build out every new branch ourselves! Except it's a standard config across all branches so there's little configuration involved, and the wiring and racking/stacking is done by a vendor as well. Yeah it takes 1 person an average of 3 days to build out a new location and it's a team of 4 people but somehow that was the biggest nut to crack. I asked a lot of questions because I legit did not understand and I probably rubbed him the wrong way with all the prying.

Now that I think back on it, he was probably hiding something.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

You're probably right, but I can't help but wonder if there might be a measure of "We have a nice easy gig here making a lot of money for little effort, shut the gently caress up and roll with it"

Arquinsiel posted:

Why would he say they all stay late all the time so? Bullshit overtime claims?

Renegret posted:

Maybe they just sucked at their jobs.

Or the director was exaggerating about the work load, I've seen that one before.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Renegret was there anyone else sitting in on the interview aside from that Director?

Arquinsiel posted:

That is a super weird vibe to give in an interview where you presumably want to person to take the job if offered it.

RFC2324 posted:

I've been in an interview before where I was told be being there was a formality because they were doing an internal hire, and policy required they do external interviews first.

At least they gave me a nice snack for my time

i am a moron posted:

Name and shame these garbage idiots

ponzicar posted:

Reminds me of the time I was in a waiting room before the start of an interview, and the only other person there strikes up a conversation and mentions that his good buddy is the interviewer and that he was hoping to get hired for the same position I was there for.

RFC2324 posted:

It was about 7 years ago, so don't remember, but they were a government contractor, which was why they had the external interview requirement.

It's really not an uncommon practice tho, any company that has a similar policy is going to do similar things. Sometimes that helpdesk guy deserves to be promoted to sysadmin but you can't legally just do it.