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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > The Goodmine > [SPAM] FW: RE: The logs could do with a courtesy flush
 
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Oct 18, 2013

Renegret posted:

Do you have one of those mythical help desk jobs where the customers aren't complete poo poo? I know they exist. Just few and far between.
Only if providing monitoring on a network/data stream service counts as help desk. In theory you have no contact with the client except emails to tell them things went down/things got fixed and how.

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Oct 18, 2013

Jaded Burnout posted:

Nice unintended consequence for us phone jockeys when I worked for an ISP: our phones were voip over our own network, so when our upstream connection went down no customers could call us :woop:
Ah yes right up there with datacenters whose only point of contact is a support portal hosted at the datacenter. So they are completely impossible to contact during an outage.

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Oct 18, 2013

RFC2324 posted:

Interesting fact:

They have found that the internet has actively changed the structure of younger brains, because kids who grow up with the internet don't have the ability to memorize the same way older people do. Their/your/our brains are more optimized for understanding things contextually when fed the information from googling the answer
This is just an acceleration of what writing already does to you. Pre-literate or semi-literate societies produce people with much better memories than literate ones.

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Oct 18, 2013

RFC2324 posted:

Makes perfect sense, but basing someone's hireability on their ability to memorize stuff that actively makes your brain not memorize stuff anymore is kinda poo poo, don't you think?
yes

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