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So on the last day at my shit job in the shit office, I should just go ahead and abuse the refund policy? Sounds crazy to me..

unpopular42 8y ago
First, you need to make your company rely on 200 consumer Gmail accounts for their business. I mean, if you can get them to that level of idiocy, nothing really helps, right?
- xfer 8y ago
  Do you know there is a thing called Gsuite for business? Let me change your sentence to "First you need to make your company rely on 200 nodes on AWS for their busineess". I am not sure who looks really stupid here?
  - unpopular42 8y ago
    Except they didn't use Gsuite and this would never happen if they did.
    - chris_wot 8y ago
      Uh, didn't they say they were paying for the service? Sounds like they are using Gsuite...
      - unpopular42 8y ago
        I don't see them saying that. If they were paying, they'd get support.
        Operyl 8y ago
        Said support is instantly worthless the moment you find yourself on the “you’re banned” wagon. That’s what this sounds like they’re stuck on.
      - donttrack 8y ago
        I understood it as if they used GSuite as well. How would 200 independent Google accounts be shut down, if one of them violated the terms. That sounds like an even bigger problem then..
  - auslander 8y ago
    AWS shit down a business account for consumer policy violation? Example?
    - tobyhinloopen 8y ago
      It is not about whether they have done it before. It is about whether that could, and they could.
      - deleted 8y ago
        [deleted]
- donalhunt 8y ago
  this is core to the story... If the company was using consumer accounts, then this is exactly the behaviour that is expected (very easy to create a bunch of accounts that are all associated with each other). Both the company leadership and IT team/vendor should hang their heads in shame. If the company was a paying gsuite customer then this type of action towards a corporate customer seems odd but not unusual. The OP committed TOS violations but may have no awareness of what TOS violations other customers were committing (if you allow that sort of culture, you reap the rewards... etc). I find it hard to believe it is the latter scenario because the admins of the account would have been notified multiple times before any adverse action was taken (there have been many stories of individuals / companies getting banned after ignoring emails to change behavior / actions that violate TOS).
- antihero 8y ago
  Fun fact: The entire UK government relies on Google Suite internally. Fuck knows how that works with PATRIOT.
  - lgregg 8y ago
    It’s probably not hosted in the US, likely the UK. It could also be on the UK’s own servers.
flukus 8y ago
I wonder how long a student who didn't finish his assignment does the same and locks an entire school out, including their Chromebooks. A lot of schools seem to be migrating to google services.

unpopular42 8y ago

First, you need to make your company rely on 200 consumer Gmail accounts for their business. I mean, if you can get them to that level of idiocy, nothing really helps, right?

xfer 8y ago
Do you know there is a thing called Gsuite for business? Let me change your sentence to "First you need to make your company rely on 200 nodes on AWS for their busineess". I am not sure who looks really stupid here?
- unpopular42 8y ago
  Except they didn't use Gsuite and this would never happen if they did.
  - chris_wot 8y ago
    Uh, didn't they say they were paying for the service? Sounds like they are using Gsuite...
    - unpopular42 8y ago
      I don't see them saying that. If they were paying, they'd get support.
      - Operyl 8y ago
        Said support is instantly worthless the moment you find yourself on the “you’re banned” wagon. That’s what this sounds like they’re stuck on.
    - donttrack 8y ago
      I understood it as if they used GSuite as well. How would 200 independent Google accounts be shut down, if one of them violated the terms. That sounds like an even bigger problem then..
- auslander 8y ago
  AWS shit down a business account for consumer policy violation? Example?
  - tobyhinloopen 8y ago
    It is not about whether they have done it before. It is about whether that could, and they could.
    - deleted 8y ago
      [deleted]
donalhunt 8y ago
this is core to the story... If the company was using consumer accounts, then this is exactly the behaviour that is expected (very easy to create a bunch of accounts that are all associated with each other). Both the company leadership and IT team/vendor should hang their heads in shame. If the company was a paying gsuite customer then this type of action towards a corporate customer seems odd but not unusual. The OP committed TOS violations but may have no awareness of what TOS violations other customers were committing (if you allow that sort of culture, you reap the rewards... etc). I find it hard to believe it is the latter scenario because the admins of the account would have been notified multiple times before any adverse action was taken (there have been many stories of individuals / companies getting banned after ignoring emails to change behavior / actions that violate TOS).
antihero 8y ago
Fun fact: The entire UK government relies on Google Suite internally. Fuck knows how that works with PATRIOT.
- lgregg 8y ago
  It’s probably not hosted in the US, likely the UK. It could also be on the UK’s own servers.

flukus 8y ago

I wonder how long a student who didn't finish his assignment does the same and locks an entire school out, including their Chromebooks. A lot of schools seem to be migrating to google services.