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My best guess is this is a "cover our asses" (literally) template not intended to be read by the recipient. Maybe their target reader is people who fake their
by hayksaakian 8y ago
My best guess is this is a "cover our asses" (literally) template not intended to be read by the recipient.
Maybe their target reader is people who fake their deaths?
- SiempreViernes 8y agoSounds plausible, but it is surprising this special case handling would be automated.
- TomMarius 8y agoMost likely reason is that they automated the automation of these issues. They always will need a row in DB for these cases, and their automation of automation probably doesn't distinguish this very special case.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y agoPremature automation ought to be the root of all evil instead.
- TomMarius 8y agoI'm not sure it was premature, or at least I'm not sure if anything that has been said here implies that it was premature. Perhaps they have thousands of these letters and it would be too much of a hassle to pick out the several hundreds that are edge cases.
- lallysingh 8y agoIt's not a special case. Every one of your customers will die. If you test account creation, try testing this.
- scarface74 8y agoIt’s not a special case Indeed it’s not: “Dead Facebook users will soon outnumber the living” https://www.theloop.ca/dead-facebook-users-will-soon-outnumber-the-living/ https://www.theloop.ca/dead-facebook-users-will-soon-outnumb...
- jacquesm 8y agoI beat them to that by a considerable amount of time: https://jacquesmattheij.com/deadbook-the-long-term-facebook/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/deadbook-the-long-term-facebook/
- reaperducer 8y agoAnd by "soon" they mean 47 years from now. I wonder what they consider "long term."
- sangnoir 8y ago> Every one of your customers will die. "Corporations are people, my friend". Undead people, I'll add, who do not have an upper limit for age, and might as well be immortal.
- amyjess 8y agoAnd at the rate mergers and acquisitions are going, in the end there may very well only be one.
- jacquesm 8y agoStarzelius Verily?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y agoGE just died (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/ge-ceo-john-flannery-im-very-comfortable-now-with-whats-going-on-in.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/ge-ceo-john-flannery-im-very...)
- filleduchaos 8y agoI...don't see how that says GE died?
- chris_wot 8y agoUh, the only way to test this scenario is to make someone die.
- lallysingh 8y agoDo you have to have babies to test new accounts?
- matte_black 8y agoJesus, this would be a great novel about a person whose entire life and reason for being was to be a test case for some massive application.
- genghizkhan 8y agoSo a modern day version of “The Truman Show”?
- ex3ndr 8y agoOr you can just mock your death.
- chris_wot 8y agoKnowing my life, that could well happen.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoI mean that people faking their own death is a special case, not that people die.
- coryfklein 8y ago> "cover our asses" (literally) Don't you mean, "figuratively"? Or are you implying that there is some dude at PayPal that is using this legal template as undergarments?
- bredren 8y agoThis is paypal. It is possible.
- a1369209993 8y agoI think the charitable interpretation is that a manager said the literal words "cover our asses" when setting this up. Or possibly the GP meant "exists for literally no other reason than "cover our asses"".
- hayksaakian 8y agoSorry, I meant it it's literally a letter that was not intended to be read by anyone.
- miles 8y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
- jacobush 8y agoThat use case seems much more apt, though.