Well I did say “for same reason lots” XD so yeah, basically.

Then sales reps can rope in new people with “It’s industry standard! It’s easy to hire people who know this!”

Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.

It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now it’d cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the “We cause less damage than a change costs” folks stay.

Heh, yeah but my metrics don’t care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are! “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” X100

100 calls an hour BABY.

sigh

So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don’t trust clients to do it. It’s very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.

So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it’s approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don’t wanna give them the needed files early for… reasons never explained properly to me.

Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.

Then we do it all over again for the live.

Welcome to corporate policy that’s been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.

There’s always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!

I haven’t been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these “problem solving” meetings from management, where they don’t actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.

Every mc pvp server I looked at had wonderful “Supporter packs”

Brain says bad. Because I’ll be there, working on trying to get a new shiny ship and then the brain is like… “You make 40$ an hour overtime. That’s a lot more ship than doing this.” or "instead of checking in on your skill queue every day for two years to make sure it’s optimal $300 worth of plex and you have your dream toon. "

And yeah… I know myself. I need to avoid games that make that lil voice pop up.

My brain is like “I played that game just like… last year right?”

Nah bro, you played that in high school, which was most certainly not last year.

I mean… in eve you were allowed to straight up buy perfect characters or skill injectors, then the isk to buy a ship. So you could have a newbie with the same character power as a 3 year old player.

My brain does not like grinding games with strong P2W aspects, it messes with me.

I see gold is for sale in the shop, is store bought gold a big influence in the game? Or pretty irrelevant?

I mean… it’s just a specialized search engine so I’m not aware of why they would. But scraping a website and determining ingredients then sticking them in an array seems like a pretty straight forward task.

Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.

Except… if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.

So wouldn’t they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?

“Oh that has funny jokes!”

“Oh… they were the only good jokes.”

Obama as now, or at the same age as me?

30 YO Obama looked amazing.

You’re so right and never thought of it like that! If you Google and find a new service you’ve never heard of, we’re expected to give up our soul in a heartbeat! Even for a new email so many are like: First name Last name Phone number for dual authentication Install this app for dual auth Birthdate!

Like dude, there are a lot of services that just that information alone is enough to call in and take my account. It’s so scary how common that is.

A game I play uses PayPal as the payment processor, and pay pal decided to pay this specific company I had to upload the front and back of my ID.

Just… ugh.

Must not be anywhere near to the actual free way entrance then if it’s that cheap! Cheap places always have trash commutes.

Oh man see I knew i was missing stuff! My gf wanted more if an explanation of why I didn’t love a vpn but I couldn’t really explain more than “if you leave sign pots everywhere that you live here, probably don’t need to worry about bread crumbs”

True! Lots of wonderful comments here.

Someone posted to the class discussion form with the bit about being an ai bot still included.

I wish it was a joke.

I didn’t do great in that class, but it was me getting 70% for not wanting to try and explain a mathematically concept in 500 words! They won’t take that away from me.