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by supergeek133 4y ago
This sort of reminds me of the story about an HR algorithm that ended up being discriminatory because it was trained using existing/past hiring data.. so it was biased toward white men. Was it Amazon? Anyway, this feels different to me
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Having a link or ability to cancel online (even with strange language or hard to navigate) is still better than cancelling your Comcast or newspaper/ESPN subscription. Sadly.
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by supergeek133 5y ago
It could be a confirmation bias problem on my end, I agree. I just know how much time some highly paid corporate support people dealt with "escalations" that could have not become that had the person answering the call either had
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Having worked there, the sheer volume of phone interactions was crazy, and I haven't worked there in almost 10 years. Regardless of the volume, it was very shocking to me how many situations that ended up being escalated to even the ex
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by supergeek133 5y ago
My first large employer was Best Buy, and at the time (and I believe still?) a large majority of their phone customer service operation was outsourced. I will still never understand why companies do this. Your quite literal last line of def
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by supergeek133 5y ago
I've been on the phone with a whole fleet of Product Managers (on the Alexa side) and they all seemed very overworked (jumping to multiple meetings within the same 30 minutes). This is all anecdotal of course, but my experience in work
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Yeah it was someone that was aggregating data of their own goodwill and posting it on a neighborhood Facebook group. This is the map he made of all of them (Reported ones): https://maps.co/map/619333f95e2d8772482744czk0
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by supergeek133 5y ago
It is not, based on the number of reported carjackings/thefts, 1% of the population of Minneapolis has either been carjacked or had their car stolen. That's just Minneapolis. That's WILD. I live here, it's happening in b
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Every major company I've worked for/with that has a large service workforce (Retail, MFG, etc) has "union avoidance" employees/training. I recall my first week as a Best Buy part time tech in 2002, we watched a vide
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by supergeek133 5y ago
A number of years back I would have considered it, but my current company does lots of business with Amazon on the software side (Alexa Integrations, etc). The amount I see their people having to work, and even how their leadership treats t
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by supergeek133 5y ago
You mean robots, or other ports being used? There were a lot of stories this morning about "Florida being open for business" but of course that comes with a ship that is currently in CA going to FL.
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by supergeek133 5y ago
I'm sure there are people that might lobby that 80-100k/year in Long Beach qualifies as minimum wage with housing prices! Ha.
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Thanks for the correction on the chip factories, and I agree with your last point about "needing to be in first place" but this pandemic has surely made it more evident how quickly we can be disrupted by either an Act of God or a
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Really? Had no idea.
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by supergeek133 5y ago
From a US perspective, it's a strange mix of these two things( from consumer electronics): - We don't open more chip factories here, because labor/regulation/land/etc is too expensive - We don't have enough log
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by supergeek133 5y ago
This 100%. As an Android user if I have the option to pay for a subscription with Google Pay (even for extra) I will do it to avoid the dreaded "You can only call to cancel" interaction where someone will spend the next 10 minutes
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by supergeek133 5y ago
It's also the urban centers from the rest of some states. For instance I live in MN, the city center is very blue and the rest of the state is not.
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by supergeek133 5y ago
The trades have apprenticeship programs... might be an interesting model to try to replicate.
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by supergeek133 5y ago
This would go along with some type of unionizing or organization.. but in the traditional trades (Electrician, Plumber, etc) there are education programs and apprenticeships before becoming "licensed". Maybe that's what we ne
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by supergeek133 5y ago
They said that in the blog... > At the same time, we recognize that many Googlers are seeing spikes in their communities caused by the Delta variant and are concerned about returning to the office. This extension will allow us time to ra
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Working in IoT land, we rely quite a bit on EventHub/AMQP type delivery for events to say a 3rd party (e.g., Alexa/Google/Etc). That being said, I've also lobbied for a similar endpoint so I don't get support ticket
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Yes my neurologist also suggested I take Vitamin E and Iron supplements.
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Well first thing is I took a sleep study (monitors and all). I think at first they thought I had Narcolepsy, but after the study it was clear my legs just didn't stop moving. They prescribed me Mirapex, which is normally a drug for Par
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by supergeek133 5y ago
The other side of this equation that isn't talked about as much is "actually getting rest when you sleep". A problem that became worse for me over the years was "sleeping but still being tired". This manifested for
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by supergeek133 5y ago
This is a similar mentality of people who get very upset over incentives sales gets and/or "company provided trips". We all forget, at least in a for profit company, that we are all employed by selling things. Like it or not
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by supergeek133 5y ago
Yeah this is what I'm getting at, I've started referring to it as "I live at work now".
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by supergeek133 5y ago
I'm not compromising. I literally said I prefer to be in the office. I feel there is a growing wave of "WFH only or bust", which just throws away the opinion of people like me. I've been working from home for 18 months l
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by supergeek133 5y ago
I still don't like the polarization of this issue "either everyone has to allow full time WFH or I quit!". I prefer working at the office given the choice, it allows me to see some of my co-workers and helps me with balance.
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by supergeek133 6y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by supergeek133 6y ago
Also add to this that most popular Twitch streamers use a very expensive digital SLR as webcams these days to avoid many of the problems discussed here. I never gave much thought to the fact that all the old phones I have sitting around hav

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