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Bro $10 and its not even real money??? You can't buy anything for $10 on Uber Eats even if the coupon worked.
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Submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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rem26_art@fedia.io 7 months ago
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Lmao, i thought for sure this was an onion article…
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Exactly, they probably got a discount from Uber on the cost for that reason.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You can use it as a tip to pay the worker the employer doesn’t pay?
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
[deleted]RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Citation needed.
I’ve seen reports of hospitals delaying non-essential and elective surgeries, but no reports of emergency care being impacted
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yup, the same happened during the various COVID waves. When there are more patients than they can reasonably provide care for, they triage and ensure those with the greatest need get seen.
btmf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My wife said that the nurses’ computers were down in the neonatal ICU that she works with. So they had no access to any patient’s medication lists or dosages during the outage.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oops, never mind, you don’t even get the $10.
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Did anyone actually die because of it? I couldn’t find any reports on that. Maybe that’s just because Google is useless, idk
Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Seriously doubt it. Elective surgeries were likely cancelled, which could certainly prolong suffering for some, but life saving surgeries can absolutely happen and do without computers.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s really hard to evaluate.
There were almost certainly a meaningful number of deaths in but a single weekend is a short enough sample that it’s hard to say confidently without a lot of data. Stuff like temperature and air quality affects death rates, as does stuff like “it’s already been hot for a week and the patients who were most vulnerable to heat already died”. And there were a lot of tests and scans that were cancelled (or at least delayed) that would have caught something, or patients that couldn’t get admitted who should have been, or a whole host of other things that are hard to measure.
Basically, there’s enough actual variance and pseudo variance through factors that are hard to measure that it would take a pretty big swing to be definitive. But purely on the basis that quality of care is correlated to death rate and quality of care was meaningfully degraded, the reasonable assumption would be that there were some, even if providing data to back it would be extremely difficult.
JCreazy@midwest.social 7 months ago
I’ve heard this a lot but haven’t seen any mention of anyone dying. Do you have a source?
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Even if this was true, get your facts straight before you spout bullshit:
THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.
Petter1@lemm.ee 7 months ago
LoL
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
The patients or their families don’t even get the gift card, that goes to the hospital.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Man if a hospital gets crippled by a computer glitch, there’s something seriously wrong.
People don’t seriously believe this crap do they?
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Your chart is stored on windows computers. The drug dispensing systems run on windows computers. Imaging (xray, ultrasound, CT, MRI) runs on windows machines. If a hospital used crowd strike, all of those go down. Source: i work at a major trauma center that was affected and took several hours to respond. OR, ER and ICU were completely frozen for several hours before they could pivot to paper charting. There aren’t paper backups of every chart so orders that weren’t already under way were also almost always delayed pending a verbal order from the physician.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is worse than getting a pizza party for turning a profit.
mp3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Or an encourage-mint
Quicky@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 months ago
$10 wouldn’t even cover 10 minutes of admin time to fix the problem. It’s honestly a bigger insult than nothing or just flipping the bird.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It also wouldn’t cover a meal from Uber Eats.
Definitely worse than nothing.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Especially since it’s a gift card not money
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A sandwich is $12-15 these days. That doesn’t even include the service fee or the driver’s tip.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not to mention this “apology” has profit for Uber built into it. Or serves as a marketing campaign for them, depending on what kind of deal they offered them to use Uber gift cards for this.
Like with $10 not even being enough to order much of anything, Uber could probably still come out ahead of they offered them at less than half of the “face value”. I regularly get offers for more than $10 off other food delivery services just to sign up, so I wouldn’t even rule out Uber offering to do this for free just for the marketing.
Like I ignore those other offers but had to think about this one before I realized it was just as ignorable because the idea of it being “compensation” made it seem more worthwhile than a marketing giveaway would be.
Plus, I bet there’s an agreement to not sue baked into this offer.
thirteene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I just got hit with a really weird edge case and just barely resolved a 2 day 911 to recover. During this time we likely spent at least 10 million and that’s not even the primary incident.
roosterduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
this genuinely seems satire theres no way
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Reality is a simulation and someone outside of it is fucking with us until we realize the truth. It’s the only explanation.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s just one
bananaglobal computer outage, Michael. How much could it cost – $10?jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wow $10. Mom can finally get that operation she was waiting for, before all the nurse stations BSOD’d.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Way to stay on brand guys!
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”
Can’t make this stuff up.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The fact that they even fucked up an insultingly low priced voucher is impressive. They keep showing their incompetence I guess lol!
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Someone has taken up Musk’s challenge for a “destroying an established company any % speed run.”
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Can’t wait for the summoning salt video
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Probably would’ve been better to not issue that at all.
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m fairly sure the vouchers are sponsored, they’re so low it’s essentially free advertising for Uber Eats
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At this rate, they’ll have a crowd of striking people outside their office in no time!
nadram@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If only that were true…
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
At this point the people who work there would be better off claiming they’re in prison during that time than actually admitting where they worked.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Wow… fuck…
Is there a term for this? Giving someone something and then taking it back? I mean, there’s “Indian Giving”, but I want one that isn’t racist, outdated, and based on a poor understanding of US History?
aalvare2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If there’re no other alternatives, then I propose that going forward the new term for this should be “Crowd Striking”
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I feel like CrowdStrike did some much groundbreakingly stupid shit that this term will be ambiguous?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But “Indian Giving” as a concept was just a way to excuse giving the indians a deal then renegging on it evwrytime the wind blew. Classic projrction propaganda before it was invented by ivy leauge schools.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Indeed, that’s why I was asking for a non-offensive version of the term to apply when people actually give you something and take it back.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I believe that “Indian Giving” is sourced in a cultural misunderstanding between Indigenous and European societies. Indigenous societies were reciprocity based, so giving gifts should be reciprocated with a gift of like value to strengthen relationships, or increase honour (social standing). The Europeans were working in a patron-client system so a gift was seen as a way of purchasing access to power through a patron. The Europeans thought the Indigenous people were paying for access to power (like a tributary), so there’s no expectation of returning a like gift. The indigenous people thought they were entering into a mutual relationship, and when a like gift wasn’t returned that was seen as reneging, so they took back their ‘offer’.
Glad to have an anthropologist kick my ass.
Oaksey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Short-term gifter
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You misspelled long term grifter
Odelay42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can’t get anything from Uber eats for less than $30 in my city.
$10 wouldn’t even cover ONE of the service fees.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I love when they send me 40% off coupons and it’s still so expensive it’s not worth it.
tja@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
$30‽ Wo even is ordering there? Why?
toynbee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Interrobang.
Odelay42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lazy people with tech salaries. I have a tech salary but I’m not lazy enough to enjoy spending 80 dollars on dinner for two that would cost 35 if I drove my damn self.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 months ago
Fucking, wow. Of course they did.
realitista@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Classic Crowdstrike!
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Have we reached “The Producers” level of capitalism where someone has figured out how to make more money from a company tanking than from it succeeding? CrowdStrike, Twitter, Coyote Vs ACME…
Either we have a series of complete buffoons in charge of companies, or someone has found a way to profit from failure. I’m not sure which is worse.
trolololol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why not both. Think about it, one is the solution to the other.
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 7 months ago
We’ve been there for a while. Not what happened in the op, but a leveraged buyout into asset stripping the company and closing it down is a classic combo since the 80s
StaySquared@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nice slap in the face.
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
In terms of PR, this is literally worse than doing nothing
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Reminds me of the pizza party my call center threw once. We had to pay for the pizza and bring our own drinks
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s when you bring a handle of vodka and piss all over the call center yelling “here’s my drink!”
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wow, so the ‘pizza party’ was basically a pizza pot luck?
acetanilide@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Every party at my last job was a potluck. Except the Christmas party. The Christmas party was secretly mandatory though.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That seems to be their modus operandi…crowdstrike literally worse than doing nothing
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Truer words could not be spoken.