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My thoughts exactly. Every year, the Standards of Business Conduct training talks about not bribing foreign officials and devs are like “who the hell is ever in
by asd88 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. Every year, the Standards of Business Conduct training talks about not bribing foreign officials and devs are like “who the hell is ever in that position anyway?”.
- tedajax 5y agoMe desperately trying to get a decent repro case for a bizarre networking bug in Halo: "Oh man, gotta remember, better not bribe any foreign officials while I sort this out."
- dennis_jeeves1 5y agoExactly...
- saalweachter 5y agoOn the other hand, if network errors could be debugged by bribing foreign officials, I'm assuming there would be a lot of rather rich foreign officials.
- russellbeattie 5y agoIf it helps, I had to sit through all that stuff at Amazon as well. I was in the bit that makes consumer electronics and never dealt with contracts in any way, yet still had to spend time learning not to make or take bribes from wholesalers or international businesses or governments. Every. Single. Year. Initially the training software was badly written so you could just open up DevTools and type "v = document.querySelector('video'); v.currentTime = v.duration - 1000;" or similar and just bop through the sections. Later they seemed to track time on the server, so really the most I could do is turn off the window focus check and leave the tab open in a second monitor. So annoying.
- giantg2 5y agoNow this is true hacker spirit
- lostlogin 5y agoI worked somewhere that had a fire safety online test each year. One staff member would be nominated to do all the tests and would sit down with everyone’s logins and spent the whole day sitting the test again and again. The other staff provided food and drink.
- AitchEmArsey 5y agoIn a cruel twist of irony, that guy then went insane from boredom and became an arsonist.
- giantg2 5y agoOr a manager
- AitchEmArsey 5y agoYou say tomato...
- trhway 5y agoYea, those simple times have passed. Ours require clicks at various points ("Next" and testing questions at the end of sections), so i accumulate them until there are 4-5 of such mandatory crap due and do them simultaneously. I suppose in time they will catch onto that too, and you'd be able to run only one at a time.
- thefunnyman 5y agoYeah I just mute the tabs and set video speed to as fast as it’ll let me. Ours has little quiz sections but you pretty much always get infinite tries and it doesn’t take a genius to guess the answers.
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- wolverine876 5y ago> "who the hell is ever in that position anyway?" Microsoft does business worldwide, of course. Wouldn't that imply that many are in that position?
- mikestew 5y agoand devs are like... How many MSFT devs do you think travel to foreign countries to close deals? I do not think one has to have worked there to come up with, "mmm, probably not very many", and thus devs are like, "WTF do I have to watch this?"
- hn_version_0023 5y agoAs nearly always, its the people that touch the money who are most likely to be corrupt. By which I obviously mean salespeople.