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They have a bug. Serious one, yes, but they listened and gave you points for reporting it. Seems to me at least the support staff are trying (even if they aren'

They have a bug. Serious one, yes, but they listened and gave you points for reporting it. Seems to me at least the support staff are trying (even if they aren't quite able to get it fixed).

solardev 2y ago
I don't think it's realistic to expect airline support staff to know how to properly classify and route web vulnerabilities. Giving someone points is just a way to get them to go away so the ticket can be closed.
- underdeserver 2y ago
  I disagree. Even support staff should be able to say "oh wow, this is really bad, let me get my supervisor", who would then recursively escalate until they get to someone who can open the correct ticket.
  - mulmen 2y ago
    “Should” is doing a lot of work there. For that to actually happen support staff has to be empowered to think for themselves and also be compensated enough to care.
    - bofadeez 2y ago
      Agreed. Every customer support rep should be making at least $200k a year. Then they'll care about their career and quality will improve with their morale.
      - bertylicious 2y ago
        Seems like people down-voted you for this "outrageous" opinion, but I agree. The people that do all the important work in our society (nurses, garbage collectors, cleaners, customer support, etc.) should get the highest income.
        solardev 2y ago
        Teachers should be paid like 10x more than they do now
      - mulmen 2y ago
        Extreme DevOps is making on-call talk to customers.
  - solardev 2y ago
    That'd be nice, it just doesn't match my experience dealing with frontline support. Most companies don't give them the training, autonomy, problem solving tools, or even buy-in to deal with something like this. When I call in I expect them to be able to change my reservation and handle seat changes and such. I don't expect them to be able to triage a tech support call and tell the difference in severity between, say, a shared computer with somebody else's login, a browser caching issue, a database hack, a proxy or CDN issue, etc.

They have a bug. Serious one, yes, but they listened and gave you points for reporting it. Seems to me at least the support staff are trying (even if they aren't quite able to get it fixed).

solardev 2y ago

I don't think it's realistic to expect airline support staff to know how to properly classify and route web vulnerabilities. Giving someone points is just a way to get them to go away so the ticket can be closed.

underdeserver 2y ago
I disagree. Even support staff should be able to say "oh wow, this is really bad, let me get my supervisor", who would then recursively escalate until they get to someone who can open the correct ticket.
- mulmen 2y ago
  “Should” is doing a lot of work there. For that to actually happen support staff has to be empowered to think for themselves and also be compensated enough to care.
  - bofadeez 2y ago
    Agreed. Every customer support rep should be making at least $200k a year. Then they'll care about their career and quality will improve with their morale.
    - bertylicious 2y ago
      Seems like people down-voted you for this "outrageous" opinion, but I agree. The people that do all the important work in our society (nurses, garbage collectors, cleaners, customer support, etc.) should get the highest income.
      - solardev 2y ago
        Teachers should be paid like 10x more than they do now
    - mulmen 2y ago
      Extreme DevOps is making on-call talk to customers.
- solardev 2y ago
  That'd be nice, it just doesn't match my experience dealing with frontline support. Most companies don't give them the training, autonomy, problem solving tools, or even buy-in to deal with something like this. When I call in I expect them to be able to change my reservation and handle seat changes and such. I don't expect them to be able to triage a tech support call and tell the difference in severity between, say, a shared computer with somebody else's login, a browser caching issue, a database hack, a proxy or CDN issue, etc.