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Zamujasa posted:not since they got rid of the $1.50 polish sausage Eat a hot dog, like an American.
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Zamujasa posted:not since they got rid of the $1.50 polish sausage Not in the great northern land of Canada. $1.50 CAD for a polish sausage or hotdog with a refillable drink. No chicken bake or churro up here though.
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Weatherman posted:Racist, sexist, and homophobic ones. I'll admit, I'm a bit weak on the slurs. "Please stop calling me," doesn't work. On the other hand, screaming that I support nukes for Pakistan, let's just wipe Mumbai off the loving map already, it's full of loving wogs, only cuts down on the calls by like 10%. OK, I pulled that number out of my rear end. Past a certain point when you're hurling racist slurs against people you have nothing against aside from them calling you, the slurs are kind of weak. I just figure I asked nicely, but after that, Argle bargle racist BS comes into play. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jul 2, 2022 |
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thrakkorzog posted:I'll admit, I'm a bit weak on the slurs. "Please stop calling me," doesn't work. What the gently caress, though
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thrakkorzog posted:I'll admit, I'm a bit weak on the slurs. "Please stop calling me," doesn't work. It is very easy to hang up the phone.
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If I ran a spam call center I would definitely direct agents to increase call volume to harass the impotent angry racist more tbh.
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thrakkorzog posted:I'll admit, I'm a bit weak on the slurs. "Please stop calling me," doesn't work. Saying racist things, when you decide to answer a spam call rather than my ignore it, is merely you looking for an excuse to be racist, because that's a deep-seated feeling in your heart. Many people never consider hurling slurs, and therefore do not seek the excuse. I hope we can all learn and grow from this.
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Finding an excuse to be racist still means you are being racist.
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thrakkorzog posted:I'll admit, I'm a bit weak on the slurs. "Please stop calling me," doesn't work. Kurt Vonnegut posted:We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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thrakkorzog posted:I'll admit, I'm a bit weak on the slurs. "Please stop calling me," doesn't work. It's been said but it cannot be overstated how weird and lovely this is lmao.
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Nighthand posted:If I ran a spam call center I would definitely direct agents to increase call volume to harass the impotent angry racist more tbh. That's unprofitable. Spam call centers exist to find as many elderly and vulnerable people to prey on as possible, not for the purpose of being annoying.
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Tunicate posted:That's unprofitable. Spam call centers exist to find as many elderly and vulnerable people to prey on as possible, not for the purpose of being annoying. Yeah but people who work in spam call centers don't give a gently caress about that, or anything really. I worked in one at one point and there were a lot of people who would mark irate responses to get called again.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Kurt Vonnegut posted: Mother Night was one of my favorite books.
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Nighthand posted:If I ran a spam call center I would definitely direct agents to increase call volume to harass the impotent angry racist more tbh. The real answer is to set your caller id spoofer to that person's number so they get hundreds of old people phoning them 'back' ranging from the confused 'why did you call me?' to 'gently caress you scammer'
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Pekinduck posted:In Massachusetts retailers must take cash but I think that's an unusual law. Unfortunately uncommon. Laws that require bars and restaurants to take cash should be the norm. "Card only" places discriminate against the poor and unbanked. Restaurants shouldn't force you to scan a QR code to look at a menu. A lot of people have difficulty reading a phone menu and it's literally age discrimination to not have printed menus. Zamujasa posted:not since they got rid of the $1.50 polish sausage We had brats, then polish, then brats again before they discontinued the alternative sausages. The people that miss the polish bug me because they don't even know that they were missing out on the superior brat option. Brat with kraut, onion, brown mustard was so, so vastly superior to anything else. The only thing even close was a polish with everything + pepper packet + parmesan packet.
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MisterOblivious posted:Unfortunately uncommon. One restaurant has started this here and I make a point of asking for the menu. They bring you a tablet. I find it very annoying to use compared to classic paper menus.
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SEKCobra posted:One restaurant has started this here and I make a point of asking for the menu. They bring you a tablet. I find it very annoying to use compared to classic paper menus. I get it to be honest, printing menus is expensive and with all the price volatility it makes it easier to make changes.
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DiabloStarCraft posted:I get it to be honest, printing menus is expensive and with all the price volatility it makes it easier to make changes. Yeah, I do get that, but even on the tablet finding stuff on that convoluted menu is a chore, I did look at it on my phone briefly and it was a total nightmare. They aren't using the technology to give you instant previews of the meal or a detailed description of exotic foods so you don't have to google them, instead it's endless lists of items, with only two objects on the screen at one time as the best case you can hope for. A normal paper menu lets me get an overview of stuff, jump between starters and stuff, not open fiddly dropdowns or reload the side multiple times while trying to decide what to order. If the UX was flawless, I'd be more forgiving, but trying to pass the buck onto the customer while making the whole experience worse is just lovely all around. Not to mention the loss of accessibility for people less able.
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Digital menus are totally hopeless in comparison, but obviously they represent a theoretical saving to the restaurant and probably ecologically. Too bad places that have them tend to universally be more expensive anyway. It's also so true that the UX is just dogshit and there's literally no way with current technology to make it not so. Pandemic ordering to me is defined by these godawful drop down menus on a shambolic, poorly maintained temp website that's hardly functional. Putting stuff in a basket like it's a independent Shopify retailer, only to have a sheepish waiter arrive 10 minutes later to say actually it's out of stock but nobody has permission or the knowledge to update the site. But your card was charged anyway and can you phone back another day and they'll refund you. Come and take an order with a pen and paper please. I've seen places where they have work tablets to take your order, and it's like 2x as slow as just scribbling in shorthand. Or even worse, typing on a phone keyboard on some kind of notes app. why
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In my experience the places that have tablets or QR code menus are usually tourist traps and hotel/airport restaurants. Which makes sense, they got hit the hardest by the labour shortage and some of them have a ton of outdoor seating that can't be covered without a small army of wait staff. They also don't really care about return customers so long as they don't get dinged on Yelp for having slow service. As of 5 years ago when I was in the service industry, the pre-built solutions for digital menus were expensive AF. It took some special circumstances to make them viable. I don't mind them in principle but its usually a sign that the establishment has an enormous menu and isn't exactly fine dining. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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We ate at a Cajun seafood boil where each guest could order via QR code. You can order more as you eat and it automatically splits the items for the check. It was actually extremely convenient. That is probably the ideal scenario for that though. Relatively simple menu and a meal where you might order second or thirds or additional sides as you go. Also made paying extremely easy while allowing people to get whatever they wanted. bamhand fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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MisterOblivious posted:Unfortunately uncommon. Its so obnoxious. I'm helping a friend with a restaurant and we decided to avoid all tech gimmicks like this. The majority of the customers are coming from their white-collar job, the last thing they want to do is wrangle another computer program.
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Theres a place near me that has a really good idea that's nearly ruined by this poo poo. A large food hall with many food trucks/pop up small food maker stand things and a single app and wait staff. The idea is you sit down, go on their app and can order whatever combo you want from whatever food stands/trucks etc and the wait staff bring it all to your table. If you want Bob's burgers but with the Nachos from Rockin' Randy go for it, your vegan friend wants the beans and halloumi wrap thing from Hippie Joes great everyone's happy and they have a full bar on the same app. However they ruin it by making you order and pay for each place seperately. Like you're already a central payment processor just split that poo poo behind the scenes and let me add it all to basket and make one payment. How hard is this? How did you do all the above and not take the very last step.
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The Seattle airport added a new food court last year, and it's got about 5 different places, with all the ordering done via central touchpad kiosks. While this sounds simple, the system frequently won't send orders to the correct restaurant (they usually just vanish), or it'll send absolute gibberish orders, so the poor SOB's making the food have no clue what's actually been ordered. This is the same airport that took three years to build a Subway (home of the $15 footlong), so it's absolutely not a surprise that they managed to gently caress up a food court this badly.
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Got at call from the bank - apparently someone transfered 2500 shekels from my account to Armenia. It's kinda weird that the bank is calling me to begin with (I first thought it was about an unusual transaction I made the day before), in Russian, and Caller ID doesn't ID the number as the bank. Ok, how did the money get transferred? Where did the instruction came from, what got hacked? The caller has a really hard time processing the query, though maybe I just suck at communicating. Do I use the application? Do I visit the local branch often? (In retrospect, I shouldn't have answered either question). All right, he's going to "insure" my funds. How much money do I have in my account? I'm not going to answer that question. Cool, local police will contact me. I said I live in Arad, right? Hang up the phone, mark the number on caller ID as "Bank - probably a scammer?" A few minutes later, I get a call marked as "Next town over - Police". Another Russian speaker, a woman. At this point I'm fairly confident I'm getting scammed, so I start loving around - everyone are so conveniently speak Russian today, the police are calling me back ever so quickly, and how can I be of service to the local law enforcement? She's in no mood to be hosed with - "Xander, did you always sound like a total fag or are you just pretending for my benefit?" and hangs up the phone. This one gets marked down as a scammer without a question mark. Notes: 1. I read about this type of scam in several random Russian blogs. Not sure how I'd react if I didn't have that info. 2. People who comment on these blogs don't have a life, and don't believe anything interesting ever happens to anyone else. They're particularly "oh, and everyone stood up and clapped, amirite?" about stories that end with the scammer being annoyed at the target loving with them, cussing them out and hanging up. And yet. 3. Apparently the target audience are Russian pensioners, but they'll happily take on an younger crowd? Or they don't have a way to tell.
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Xander77 posted:She's in no mood to be hosed with - "Xander, did you always sound like a total fag or are you just pretending for my benefit?" and hangs up the phone. To be fair this bit does sound like police so far. What's the scam supposed to be? Advance fee fraud? They will "insure" your account for 500 shekels, please do use an Amazon gift card, yes the bank only takes that now and definitely cannot just withdraw from your account?
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Volmarias posted:To be fair this bit does sound like police so far. Use google translate for further info: https://www.exler.ru/blog/razvod-zvonok-iz-banka.htm https://www.exler.ru/blog/novyy-vid-telefonnogo-moshennichestva-budte-bditelny.htm?sort_nested=-created_at https://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/15801012611/ https://www.exler.ru/blog/ocherednoy-razvod-voprosy.htm?sort=created_at https://www.facebook.com/lala.brynza/posts/3293737834006291
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So my friend was selling a bunch of crap on Facebook marketplace, and would get these people who’d aggressively insist that they send her money ahead of time via Zelle. Then they’d say that they weren’t going to come pick up, but that it’d be their brother or cousin or whatever. She’d be like, “if you want the item, I’ll just hold it for you, and then you can Zelle me whatever after you come over to pick it up. Also. I don’t care who is coming to pick it up. Just get this crap out of my house.” She was in the process of moving, and didn’t have time for this crap. So I googled around a bit, and it looks like this is a scam where they fake send you money, and then when the money doesn’t hit your account, run off with the stuff? But I’m confused because nobody was coming the same day as the payment. It’d be a day or two after. Edit: she told me the situation because it sounded suspicious to her. I told her to block those people, because it all sounded scammy as hell.
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dino. posted:So my friend was selling a bunch of crap on Facebook marketplace, and would get these people who’d aggressively insist that they send her money ahead of time via Zelle. Then they’d say that they weren’t going to come pick up, but that it’d be their brother or cousin or whatever.
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dino. posted:So my friend was selling a bunch of crap on Facebook marketplace, and would get these people who’d aggressively insist that they send her money ahead of time via Zelle. Then they’d say that they weren’t going to come pick up, but that it’d be their brother or cousin or whatever. See the example I found on Reddit 
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This is legit interesting to me. 1999: I had to deal with the fallout from someone copying the EarthLink website pixel for pixel and spamming out “lol reset your password” emails. 2009: Your computer has been locked because you looked at the Bad Porn(tm). *it wasn’t usually locked except this pop up on login* 2019: All your data is encrypted now, send me a sliver of a bitcoin…please? My dumb rear end walked into a brand new job that got shitslammed by HR lady clicking on a thing and I spent a week fixing permissions and asking for office lady to not have computer access to all of our production files. I was denied. HR missus click a lot is the boss’ wife.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:This is legit interesting to me. just accidentally change it and nobody will know
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CommonShore posted:just accidentally change it and nobody will know I debated this but every account on the network is effectively admin. Also I kept getting MalwareBytes hits on production libraries. “Oh, that’s the DLL that pretends to be a copy protect dongle.” Also our source control is a bunch of unlabeled flash drives. Also also we need loving 3.5” floppies to put programs on our 4 of our ancient rear end CNC lathes and I’m down to one working disk. FFUUCCKK Thanks for coming to my TED talk on how not to run the IT side of a machine shop. E: I legit thought this was the bad workplace thread, I will let my stupidity stand but I’m gonna repost over there too. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Also also we need loving 3.5” floppies to put programs on our 4 of our ancient rear end CNC lathes and I’m down to one working disk. You can get new old stock floppies off eBay or whatever for about $2 each. They will suffer a bit of fragility from age but if the box is still sealed and they were stored in an office cabinet or something for the last 10 years you'll probably have 90%+ still working.
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Fair, that was a bitch fest that was meant for the lovely job thread. The true scam was agreeing to hire me.
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You should be able to replace the floppy drives with something like a Gotek or something similar and use USB sticks. I believe they were even originally designed to replace floppy drives in industrial equipment.
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KozmoNaut posted:You should be able to replace the floppy drives with something like a Gotek or something similar and use USB sticks. I believe they were even originally designed to replace floppy drives in industrial equipment. You get weird fuckery with things like that sometimes; it was not uncommon for industrial equipment to do a bunch of direct access or some homegroan custom interface scheme and sometimes the emulators fall short on nonstandard comms like that. That will be a longer term solution than a shoebox of new floppies if it works though, and if your bossmasters aren't super cheapskates lmao they are it's worth a few bucks of company money to investigate, since they definitely aren't going to buy machines made after the World Trade Center was destroyed.
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I never get those car warranty calls. I always get "Thanks for being a Colorado Electric customer." [That is not a real electric provider and obviously not mine.] I've never stayed on the line. Anyone know what kind of scam this leads to?
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I never get those car warranty calls. I always get "Thanks for being a Colorado Electric customer." Either they need you to "pay an overdue bill" or they want to have a fig leaf for changing your electric provider to one that charges you $3/kWh
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