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- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 6 minutes ago:
And where are we going to get this army of professionals?
- Submitted 23 hours ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 37 comments
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 1 day ago:
Nah. People easily recognize my hillbilly roots.
- Comment on Broadcom ends business with VMware’s lowest-tier channel partners 2 days ago:
Said it the day Broadcom bought them, they’re going to squeeze the smaller customers out. This behavior is by design.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 2 days ago:
That’s bad UI, not you. Your brain was pattern matching for something that looked like a button, didn’t lock onto the non-button thing, because why would it?
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 2 days ago:
Happens in IT as well. If you choose to alert on all the things, you’re going to get burned at some point.
- Comment on Living a lie 2 days ago:
That’s how I talk! Maybe not those words, but yeah, I talk to them like a friend-of-a-friend who called for help. I SO love getting someone like that on the phone. When I realize I’m talking to a human that gives two fucks, my attitude lines right up, even if I started mad. Amazing how people react when treated like people.
Lemmy: I’m autistic and need a 254-page manual as to how to smile correctly.
No, you’re not autistic, you were robbed of human social interaction by schools and society. There’s nothing wrong with your brain, you’re not special, you’re a victim (sorta, get over it), STFU.
And the next waiter or waitress that says, “Absolutely sir!”, gets punched. These people have an instruction book that mandates “absolutely”?! I humbly ask for some salt. “YES SIR ABSOLUTELY SIR WOULD YOU LIKE A BLOWJOB SIR?” “Just some salt would be nice enough. Thank you.”
- Comment on Living a lie 2 days ago:
How about this? HANG UP THE FUCKING PHONE. Heard my wife do this today. You get one chance to be an ass, then fuck you. “But MY job, bla, bla, bla.” She works for the largest company of it’s kind. She hangs up.
And BTW, English is her second language, so imagine the racism and abuse people start with. Yet she’s rocking out and next in line for a promotion. Yet native English speakers get their ass kicked. One must wonder what is happening. Must be the customers, couldn’t be the rep.
- Comment on Living a lie 2 days ago:
So, treating customers as faceless idiots working out for you? Maybe treat them like people who need your aid? Is kissing ass the only way you know to interact with strangers whose approval you require?
- Comment on Living a lie 2 days ago:
You have utterly failed to understand the assignment. You could not have wrote a worse response if you fed it through AI.
“Customers don’t treat me like a person. 😢”
That’s because they don’t see you as a person, because you don’t treat them like a person. Know what? This conversation is hopeless. You do you.
- Comment on Living a lie 2 days ago:
A rep comes at me with that voice and I know damned well they aren’t listening to me, don’t give a fuck about what I called about.
- Comment on An invoice is just a negative cheque 2 days ago:
Rarely. Up until 2 years ago I had to pay my mortgage with a check, but that was a Habitat for Humanity thing. Not like they’re funded for shit. It’s become strange to see someone paying with paper at a grocery store.
We still “pay by check” for a lot of things online as there’s usually no extra charge. It’s a way to dodge credit card fees, for both parties.
- Comment on Living a lie 3 days ago:
I never used that bullshit voice, simply talked to customers as I would a stranger a friend referred to me for help. Guess what? Hardly ever got disrespected, let alone chewed out.
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that–”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”
–from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
tl;dr: Treat people as people and not “customers”. Be amazed.
- Comment on Maybe need a little ivermectin for that. 3 days ago:
You must be right. Oklahoma has some hills, but it’s flat as hell around Stillwater.
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 3 days ago:
Because they’re shitty little sites no one has ever heard of?
clients have included
Whoop dee do. Yes, I’m sure the scum that were name dropped threw a couple of shillings in the pile.
And what kind of crazy revelations will come of this?! Well, maybe if something actually comes out, you’ll have your story.
- Submitted 3 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Amazing. 4 days ago:
No stink, bugs, etc.?
- Comment on NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City 5 days ago:
Listen all y’all!
- Comment on Amazing. 5 days ago:
Learned the trick. Quick, very quick, rinse in the sink, dunk it upside down in the drain. Rinse (heh) and repeat for the next can. Almost zero effort, clean cans for the recycling bag. I took a load the size pictured for recycling last month. No stink. Only got a lousy $100.10. :(
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 5 days ago:
- Comment on Delicious 5 days ago:
Same! I might bust it out and try it on the wife and kids tonight.
- Comment on State Department set to launch "Office of Remigration". The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe. 6 days ago:
I’ve noticed that too! He has this hang dog look like, “Fuck have I got myself into?”
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 week ago:
Meant to add that, didn’t have the words and you nailed it. Thanks!
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 week ago:
Poor OP. They’re leaving this thread more confused than ever.
The United States is huge and every region has different definitions and expectations of “city”, “town”, “suburb”, “wide place in the road”, etc. LOL, when I was a kid we called Tulsa, OK a “small town”. Well, yeah, as opposed to Chicagoland.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 week ago:
I’d call Albany and Valdosta cities. Baconton? Never heard of it. Small town in my book.
EDIT: Just looked. Hell, you got a Dollar General and a school? Small city. :)
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 week ago:
The town by my camp is about that size, 900 souls, and that includes a great deal of surrounding area. We have a general store/gas station, restaurant, mechanic, hair place (still open?), Post Office, fire station (unmanned I think?), two churches, halfway house, tiny school of some sort and a Dollar General, two “cities” 20-miles in either direction.
I would think this is OP’s definition of “village”. There are smaller places in between those two cities, but Holt is the “big” one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I wholeheartedly agree! But the cinematographer’s subject usually isn’t a barely pubescent child.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If that were a pic of a real little girl, would you say the same? Barely pubescent, short shorts gapped around her thighs, legs held up and back, tank top strap slipping off, big eyes staring at you… fuck, gonna stop there.
How about this: If I posted a pic of my 11-yo in those clothes, in that position, all hell would break loose and I’d be banned forever and ever amen. Probably get reported to the FBI. But you would just say it’s a child on a couch?
And if that’s all it is, nothing titillating, why would anyone post such a thing? Again, how about I post a pic of my daughter dressed like that, in that position? We all good with that? (You have to say “yes”, you’ve backed yourself into a corner.)
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 1 week ago:
Never looked into making gin, but juniper berries are plenty plentiful!
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 1 week ago:
Only in first-world countries did everyone have a phone and the Earth’s population was half what it is now.
