Everyone in the call center, hundreds and hundreds of people, despises you.
I think that’s already the belief of most people that call into one.
Likewise
They patent ways to generate green energy so nobody else can use them and they can continue to make obscene profits selling oil and gas.
Similar strategy to software companies, who buy upcoming competing companies and then kill the products.
I’m not surprised but lord that’s bad
Those companies are just begging to be nationalized.
Food bank in the US. Food drives and individual donations of food don’t really mean shit to food banks and they result in overwhelmingly low quality food. Your local food bank isn’t hurting for your expired cans of coconut milk or your forgotten boxes of Kraft mac & cheese. Sugary junk and expired food will be sorted out and tossed. Most staple foods at food banks are distributed by the federal government or purchased by the food bank. Most other foods are donated in large volume by supermarkets and manufacturers. What food banks really need from you is donations of money, not food.
Another thing about food banks is that some supermarkets and manufacturers abuse them to dump their spoiled, expired or overproduced goods and get a tax write-off on them. I worked at a medium sized food bank that would throw away multiple pallets of sugary bakery items from Walmart every day because they didn’t meet our nutrition guidelines and Walmart had been told repeatedly not to donate them, but they did it anyway for the tax write-off. Ever walk into a Walmart and wonder how they can have so much bakery crap on display and sell it before it expires? Yeah, most of that stuff will be marked down multiple times and then trucked to the local food bank where it will be thrown away. Trader Joe’s also does this with their returns (most of their donations are unusable). Whole Foods on the other hand is really amazing about donating tons of high quality stuff on a daily basis.
This only makes me hate walmart even more
I wonder if you could get some kind of IRS tax fraud bounty on Walmart for that, but I’m guessing the odds are pretty low especially with the current administration.
The physical infrastructure of the internet (fibre and copper cables) is held together with string and ‘temporary’ fixes. Not a metaphor in any way.
Wait 'til you hear about the software infrastructure.
Hey that random dude from Nebraska should not be lumped in with this.
The last tech job I worked marketing for had a security product (you probably have used it without knowing it). They had a group in-house they called the “Tiger Team”: people who were supposedly tasked with testing the security of the product. You got into the “Tiger Team” by finding a flaw in the security.
The “Tiger Team” did nothing. At all. Didn’t even meet. Hell, half of them didn’t know who the other members were. The job of the “Tiger Team” was to sign the NDA that had dire consequences if you spoke to anybody else about the “Tiger Team” and/or the security flaws in the product.
So basically the “Tiger Team” existed only to conceal flaws in the product. Not to fix them or find more.
I swear, security companies have the worst security practices.
When does the NDA expire? I need deets
I didn’t sign an NDA, the guy I was dating did. And the company is long zombified (Entrust).
Then spill the beans!
What beans? I already spilled them: Entrust had “Tiger Team” that consisted entirely of people who’d found flaws in the security of the product; it existed entirely to NDA-bind the “team members” to squelch talk about the security failures.
You want me to spill the beans on the flaws? Can’t. I do marketing, not techie stuff. I just know about the “team”, not about the things people found to get into it.
Shell has caused a lot more oil spills, both big and small, than they’d ever admit. I didn’t work there, but I’ve been on ships around their oil rigs.
No one really cares if you have a nice day.
Similarly, strangers who greet you by asking how you’re doing also don’t care about the answer. People actually get really uncomfortable if you say anything negative.
I promise you I care, I don’t know who you are but the idea that you’re happy fills my heart with joy.
😱😱😱
I feel like this should be common sense, but goddamn does it come up often as fuck. If you’re going to a built-in bakery, like in a grocery store or Starbucks little bakery display, we don’t fully make 90% of that shit. It comes in pre-made. The shit we do put in the oven is mostly to warm it or just finish it off.
We most likely don’t even have the box to tell you exactly when the supplier baked it. We sell them that quickly. We just slap icing on.
We have to put out so much product in a day, on such tight timing, that if we had to mix and bake our own cakes and bread, we’d be constantly out. That is part of why our shit is cheaper than a high-end independent establishment.
We used to routinely disable safety interlocks on production machines. A guy almost got decapitated once while performing maintenance.
We as in you did? If so, Fuck you. I know too many people who have been injured because of assholes who disabled those interlocks. LOTO is a lifesaver.
Edit: ok I saw in a later post that you didn’t do that. But still - to anyone who considers disabling a safety interlock - just jump right in after doing so.
I tell all the new guys “if your manager doesn’t want you want to lock something out, call me. I’ll lock it out. There’s nothing in this place worth getting hurt for.”
Here, our equipment is old enough that sometimes powering things down means they don’t come back up properly. I’d rather fight getting a machine back up and running vs having to hear about someone being injured.
Calm the fuck down. This wasn’t a “Russian lathe accident” situation. We were trained professionals, and never left the machines unattended in an unsafe state. There were no injuries and only that one close call (which IIRC was traced back to a faulty e-stop button).
We never fell victim to complacency and I am quite proud of that.
What? Why? It only takes one guy to refuse.
Not the original post, but it’s usually speed. Manufacturing employees get pushed for more output, and usually that means that maintenance gets rushed.
A decade ago I was working somewhere with massive production machines with big rollers to pull the product through. One guy left the machine running to clean it so he could just sort of buff the rollers to clean them instead of scrubbing.
He got his arm sucked in up to his shoulder before someone was able to hit the e-stop
Sometimes for maintenance, sometimes because manual intervention was necessary. The machines where we did this were built in the 90s and have been in near constant operation. Moving parts are worn out and the tolerances are gone. Replacement parts are difficult to find and expensive to manufacture, so if something more complex than a ball bearing or axle got out of alignment, we had to pound it back into place (sometimes literally).
I personally never bypassed the interlock, I wasn’t paid enough to take on that responsibility. I would just file a downtime notice and call the on-site mechanic when needed. I didn’t give a shit about reduced output.
Tagging @Remorhaz@lemmy.world
80-90% of the entire cybersecurity business is because Windows is still being used.
Pretending Linux doesn’t have vulnerabilities?
That’s about 2% of the entire cybersecurity industry. So - sure, knock yourself out on that, but the $ isn’t as big.
Tell me you don’t work in large enterprise environments without telling me.
Heheh. No.
Many SQL servers use scripts that run as domain administrator. With the password hard coded in.
Several of the various servers are very old. W2K, 2003, 2008. SQL server, too.
Several of the users run reports via rdp to the SQL server - logging in as domain admin.
Codebase is a mashup of various dev tools: .net, asp, Java, etc.
Fax server software vendor has been out of business for a decade. Server hardware is 20 years old. Telecom for fax is a channelized PRI carrying POTS - and multiport modem cards. Fax is used for processing checks.
About a 3rd of the ethernet runs in the office have failed.
Office pcs are static IP. Boss says that’s more secure.
They were hacked about a year ago. They changed the domain admin password and restored the backups. That’s it.
They processed money to/from the Fed.
Many moons ago I was getting my W2K certs. I dropped a vanilla box into my home lab, installed W2K server, connected it to my LAN, and left to take leak and get a cup of coffee. By the time I got back 10 minutes later, some enterprising soul had installed SQLServer and Exchange 5.5 over the Internet in preparation for fuck knows what. I burped, farted, and disconnected my router. Then I sat down to reconsider my career choice.
The thing limiting it most is the last sentence, the rest I’ve seen as well :D
I’ve worked for the government. However chaotic, beaurocratic and badly managed it is, it’s 1000 times worse. Laziness is endemic and so many people just won’t work
It is truly incredible when you see how someone can make themselves be such a roadblock. Like how are you even this way?
How long have you been alive?
Shocking
Automation is so incredibly resource intensive and generates so much waste. I can’t see how letting ourselves become more dependant on automation is as beneficial as businesses and mislead common people make it out to be.
As demand increases, so does maintenance, upgrades and power consumption. Everything electronic requires plastic. Which is shipped in more plastic. Which is shipped on skids wrapped in more plastic. And when those electronics fail, then that is just more waste plastic because it’s easier, quicker and cheaper to replace rather than fix.
Electronics and automation are so fun and interesting. It’s amazing watching a line run at full speed in production. But it’s so painfully depressing how awful it is for our environment. The dust and oils are awful for the living beings that work in those environments. The repetitive jobs that it creates is absolutely awful for the mental wellbeing for the people who work there.
The mental damage of being there was so bad to me that when it came time to discuss severance pay at the labour board meeting after my wrongful termination, I purposely let the lawyers keep in a part in the contract/paperwork saying I could no longer work at any company under that international organization. They thought I would fight that so they would have reason to lower my severance pay. Nah. I took my winnings, which included getting the HR manager fired, and fucked right off.
Years later and I still feel a deep shame and regret for the time I spent in the automation industry and for all the damage and waste I caused while being in there.
Along with eliminating wealth hoarders who generate extreme amounts of waste, lessening our dependence on technology and automation are things I personally believe will be key to a liveable future. It’s a bit shocking to me how often I receive negative or angry criticism when I share these thoughts though.
The Factory Must Grow…
/s
They paid for the CEO to have an expensive townhouse downtown even though they only visited the area like 2 weeks total per year and lived on the opposite coast.
It’s really insane how some truly wealthy people waste everyone else’s money. Like, claw and fight to get more and screw everyone else over, then just waste their money on stuff like that. I know a guy who got very wealthy from starting a health insurance plan in the 80s (first PPO in a Midwest state). He owns this gigantic 20 million dollar house in the mountains in Colorado and is there for sale, like 2-3 weeks a year. Pays people to watch it, clean and maintain it. Such a stupid waste of resources.
YMMV:
- Dollar General: nobody watches the cameras unless someone reports something
- USPS: exploitative. Has the ability to manipulate politics (political ads are not guaranteed to be delivered)
- Amazon Warehouse: exploitative
- Amazon DSP: exploitative. DSPs were created to bypass labor laws
- Restaurants: most fried foods, and many not fried, are frozen. This is not just fast food, think steaks.
Tons of restaurants serve premade stuff from US Foods or Sysco. Lie about it, too. I worked at a BBQ restaurant whose secret sauce recipe was adding smoke flavoring and red wine vinegar to 5 gallon buckets of Cattlemen’s.
What is a DSP?
Delivery Service “Partner”
It’s the outsourced delivery drivers.
I don’t know why I read Delivery Service Panther and got excited. I would probably be dead after the first delivery, but still.
Your sandals are here. Fight me, human.
Reading this in an ad tech context (Demand Side Platform, where businesses pay money to get their ads into the marketplace) read equally true. Their margin is roughly 50-60%
Edit: Amazon is a DSP in the advertising space
