"Do you know who you're talking to? I'm calling from NEW YORK!"
Thing that was just said to me by a social media "management" company/scam trying to get us to pay them to "manage" our Yelp, Trip Advisor, Facebook etc. accounts.
She'd called 3 times previously, angrier each time, trying to get to talk to the boss, and the girls in the store had told her the boss was busy (he was, it's the day before St. Patrick's and less than 2 weeks to Easter) and would call back later, and eventually hung up on her when she wouldn't take no for an answer. I took the fourth call and told her no, we're not interested in having them manage anything, at which point she went into some spiel about how this was "paid time they had blocked off specifically" to talk to the boss about our "listings" and I told her I didn't care what it was, we weren't interested, at which point she pulled that line out. To which I calmly responded "Lady, you're talking to an Italian in Chicago, I don't give a shit who you are, call again and we're filing an FCC violation" and she literally began screaming into the phone as I hung it up.
Tomorrow's my birthday, but I got my present early!
I got called by one of those "Hi i'm so-and-so with the IRS and you owe us taxes and we're sending the police over to your house RIGHT NOW to arrest you unless you give us your bank account info" scams a couple weeks ago
i said "how often does this scam actually work?" and they hung up on me
I regret trolling the "we are from microsoft you computer has a virus please give us root access" people because they called me nonstop for a month after I wasted like two hours with one guy.
"Do you know who you're talking to? I'm calling from NEW YORK!"
Thing that was just said to me by a social media "management" company/scam trying to get us to pay them to "manage" our Yelp, Trip Advisor, Facebook etc. accounts.
She'd called 3 times previously, angrier each time, trying to get to talk to the boss, and the girls in the store had told her the boss was busy (he was, it's the day before St. Patrick's and less than 2 weeks to Easter) and would call back later, and eventually hung up on her when she wouldn't take no for an answer. I took the fourth call and told her no, we're not interested in having them manage anything, at which point she went into some spiel about how this was "paid time they had blocked off specifically" to talk to the boss about our "listings" and I told her I didn't care what it was, we weren't interested, at which point she pulled that line out. To which I calmly responded "Lady, you're talking to an Italian in Chicago, I don't give a shit who you are, call again and we're filing an FCC violation" and she literally began screaming into the phone as I hung it up.
Tomorrow's my birthday, but I got my present early!
I got called by one of those "Hi i'm so-and-so with the IRS and you owe us taxes and we're sending the police over to your house RIGHT NOW to arrest you unless you give us your bank account info" scams a couple weeks ago
i said "how often does this scam actually work?" and they hung up on me
So that has to be tremendously illegal, holy shit
it is
there's been a rash of it here lately, it's been on the news and whatnot
the problem is it's difficult to police because the scammers aren't idiots. they're making calls from burner phones so it's really difficult to track.
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
if there ever was a union with the capability to become Fight Club style terrifying, it would be an IT Union
rise up, american server monkeys. Unite, and become like the Spacing Guild of the american empire.
Are you implying they don't already jerk everyone around already? Or alluding to their natural tendencies becoming a supreme fit for a terrifying global entity?
The second. Jerking people around separately is nothing compared to what could be.
Like some sort of circle...jerk?
like a circlejerk that focuses on hauling together and pulling a dick clean off
For one, nobody measures height that accurately. Also, that's a third of a cm. You're about a cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
I'm almost a full inch taller in the mornings.
Or at least I was in my teens, when I had that lamp I bumped my head into in the morning, but I could fit two fingers between it and my head in the afternoon.
"Do you know who you're talking to? I'm calling from NEW YORK!"
Thing that was just said to me by a social media "management" company/scam trying to get us to pay them to "manage" our Yelp, Trip Advisor, Facebook etc. accounts.
She'd called 3 times previously, angrier each time, trying to get to talk to the boss, and the girls in the store had told her the boss was busy (he was, it's the day before St. Patrick's and less than 2 weeks to Easter) and would call back later, and eventually hung up on her when she wouldn't take no for an answer. I took the fourth call and told her no, we're not interested in having them manage anything, at which point she went into some spiel about how this was "paid time they had blocked off specifically" to talk to the boss about our "listings" and I told her I didn't care what it was, we weren't interested, at which point she pulled that line out. To which I calmly responded "Lady, you're talking to an Italian in Chicago, I don't give a shit who you are, call again and we're filing an FCC violation" and she literally began screaming into the phone as I hung it up.
Tomorrow's my birthday, but I got my present early!
I got called by one of those "Hi i'm so-and-so with the IRS and you owe us taxes and we're sending the police over to your house RIGHT NOW to arrest you unless you give us your bank account info" scams a couple weeks ago
i said "how often does this scam actually work?" and they hung up on me
I regret trolling the "we are from microsoft you computer has a virus please give us root access" people because they called me nonstop for a month after I wasted like two hours with one guy.
fuzzy i hope you do not mind but your misfortune made me laugh audibly
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
"Do you know who you're talking to? I'm calling from NEW YORK!"
Thing that was just said to me by a social media "management" company/scam trying to get us to pay them to "manage" our Yelp, Trip Advisor, Facebook etc. accounts.
She'd called 3 times previously, angrier each time, trying to get to talk to the boss, and the girls in the store had told her the boss was busy (he was, it's the day before St. Patrick's and less than 2 weeks to Easter) and would call back later, and eventually hung up on her when she wouldn't take no for an answer. I took the fourth call and told her no, we're not interested in having them manage anything, at which point she went into some spiel about how this was "paid time they had blocked off specifically" to talk to the boss about our "listings" and I told her I didn't care what it was, we weren't interested, at which point she pulled that line out. To which I calmly responded "Lady, you're talking to an Italian in Chicago, I don't give a shit who you are, call again and we're filing an FCC violation" and she literally began screaming into the phone as I hung it up.
Tomorrow's my birthday, but I got my present early!
I got called by one of those "Hi i'm so-and-so with the IRS and you owe us taxes and we're sending the police over to your house RIGHT NOW to arrest you unless you give us your bank account info" scams a couple weeks ago
i said "how often does this scam actually work?" and they hung up on me
I regret trolling the "we are from microsoft you computer has a virus please give us root access" people because they called me nonstop for a month after I wasted like two hours with one guy.
yeah the problem with most of those scams is the first call is just to see if there's a person on the other end so they can open the floodgates
"Do you know who you're talking to? I'm calling from NEW YORK!"
Thing that was just said to me by a social media "management" company/scam trying to get us to pay them to "manage" our Yelp, Trip Advisor, Facebook etc. accounts.
She'd called 3 times previously, angrier each time, trying to get to talk to the boss, and the girls in the store had told her the boss was busy (he was, it's the day before St. Patrick's and less than 2 weeks to Easter) and would call back later, and eventually hung up on her when she wouldn't take no for an answer. I took the fourth call and told her no, we're not interested in having them manage anything, at which point she went into some spiel about how this was "paid time they had blocked off specifically" to talk to the boss about our "listings" and I told her I didn't care what it was, we weren't interested, at which point she pulled that line out. To which I calmly responded "Lady, you're talking to an Italian in Chicago, I don't give a shit who you are, call again and we're filing an FCC violation" and she literally began screaming into the phone as I hung it up.
Tomorrow's my birthday, but I got my present early!
I got called by one of those "Hi i'm so-and-so with the IRS and you owe us taxes and we're sending the police over to your house RIGHT NOW to arrest you unless you give us your bank account info" scams a couple weeks ago
i said "how often does this scam actually work?" and they hung up on me
I regret trolling the "we are from microsoft you computer has a virus please give us root access" people because they called me nonstop for a month after I wasted like two hours with one guy.
fuzzy i hope you do not mind but your misfortune made me laugh audibly
I convinced him I was using a Penguin OS! They were very mad at me for a while.
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
So girl chatting with me on okc turned out to be also trans.
Which is totally fine! I have zero problems dating a trans person, but it has alerted me to an observation: I only seem to attract other trans women. I think I might be cis kryptonite.
"Do you know who you're talking to? I'm calling from NEW YORK!"
Thing that was just said to me by a social media "management" company/scam trying to get us to pay them to "manage" our Yelp, Trip Advisor, Facebook etc. accounts.
She'd called 3 times previously, angrier each time, trying to get to talk to the boss, and the girls in the store had told her the boss was busy (he was, it's the day before St. Patrick's and less than 2 weeks to Easter) and would call back later, and eventually hung up on her when she wouldn't take no for an answer. I took the fourth call and told her no, we're not interested in having them manage anything, at which point she went into some spiel about how this was "paid time they had blocked off specifically" to talk to the boss about our "listings" and I told her I didn't care what it was, we weren't interested, at which point she pulled that line out. To which I calmly responded "Lady, you're talking to an Italian in Chicago, I don't give a shit who you are, call again and we're filing an FCC violation" and she literally began screaming into the phone as I hung it up.
Tomorrow's my birthday, but I got my present early!
I got called by one of those "Hi i'm so-and-so with the IRS and you owe us taxes and we're sending the police over to your house RIGHT NOW to arrest you unless you give us your bank account info" scams a couple weeks ago
i said "how often does this scam actually work?" and they hung up on me
I regret trolling the "we are from microsoft you computer has a virus please give us root access" people because they called me nonstop for a month after I wasted like two hours with one guy.
i am distressed by the idea that there are people who think they're really justified in somehow being angry that you're refusing to give them your business (or that you're not falling for their scam, although that seems more like just a pressure tactic in that case)
these alien mindsets
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
We get the fucks that go around saying they're from ConEd. They want to see your bill so they can change your electricity provider.
The movie theaters let the cockgoblins set up shop in the lobby and pitch FREE MOVIE TICKETS in exchange for signing up for the scam.
IT won't unionize, there's always "my brother's kid, that's good with computers" so they'd just fire us.
Some software engineer will revolutionize the OS by describing things people want to do in actual real words with a GUI that doesn't obfuscate the important stuff.
No, what's going to happen is people will be using their own devices to connect to platforms as a service (PaaS) style shit, and everything will be azure or AWS or Salesforce and general purpose IT wonks will be deprecated in favor of contracted field services to fix desktops and monitors, and a single administrator to handle the cloud app deployments for tens of thousands of seats.
It is fast becoming D-day for the old IT guard.
I think so, but that shit is expensive. Until it can come down another factor of 10, it'll still be cheaper to have IT on staff dealing with their own inhouse stuff.
Also none of that shit works right.
You're just switching from IT admins who are good at managing server rooms and hardware to admins who are good at managing cloud services and making them play together.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
if there ever was a union with the capability to become Fight Club style terrifying, it would be an IT Union
rise up, american server monkeys. Unite, and become like the Spacing Guild of the american empire.
Are you implying they don't already jerk everyone around already? Or alluding to their natural tendencies becoming a supreme fit for a terrifying global entity?
The second. Jerking people around separately is nothing compared to what could be.
Like some sort of circle...jerk?
like a circlejerk that focuses on hauling together and pulling a dick clean off
So girl chatting with me on okc turned out to be also trans.
Which is totally fine! I have zero problems dating a trans person, but it has alerted me to an observation: I only seem to attract other trans women. I think I might be cis kryptonite.
Cistonite
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
We get the fucks that go around saying they're from ConEd. They want to see your bill so they can change your electricity provider.
The movie theaters let the cockgoblins set up shop in the lobby and pitch FREE MOVIE TICKETS in exchange for signing up for the scam.
Yeah we get the power resellers, and we got a "I'm with the power company, we're coming to shut your power off right now unless you buy a bunch of Visa gift cards and give me the numbers to pay your bill" scam a couple months ago too.
In my area there's a similar phone scam, but in this case they claim they are from the local utilities/power company and threaten to cut power if you don't give a credit card or bank number, saying your bill's past due.
BronzeKoopa on
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
So girl chatting with me on okc turned out to be also trans.
Which is totally fine! I have zero problems dating a trans person, but it has alerted me to an observation: I only seem to attract other trans women. I think I might be cis kryptonite.
Cistonite
i was going to make this pun but it sounded too gross
"Do you know who you're talking to? I'm calling from NEW YORK!"
Thing that was just said to me by a social media "management" company/scam trying to get us to pay them to "manage" our Yelp, Trip Advisor, Facebook etc. accounts.
She'd called 3 times previously, angrier each time, trying to get to talk to the boss, and the girls in the store had told her the boss was busy (he was, it's the day before St. Patrick's and less than 2 weeks to Easter) and would call back later, and eventually hung up on her when she wouldn't take no for an answer. I took the fourth call and told her no, we're not interested in having them manage anything, at which point she went into some spiel about how this was "paid time they had blocked off specifically" to talk to the boss about our "listings" and I told her I didn't care what it was, we weren't interested, at which point she pulled that line out. To which I calmly responded "Lady, you're talking to an Italian in Chicago, I don't give a shit who you are, call again and we're filing an FCC violation" and she literally began screaming into the phone as I hung it up.
Tomorrow's my birthday, but I got my present early!
I've gotten the weird hostile calls back from companies like this before (some twerp from a credit card company got all butthurt after i blew off his 3rd call) and it's just like
You really think getting angry with a bunch of different employees is going to get you business?
What the fuck?
Typically? They think the lowly peasants answering the phone are interfering with their business transactions with the boss.
Xerox and shit cold call me all the time.
Oh wait did I say cold call me? No they show up at the fucking door asking to see me.
Then get all indignant when they find out I'm busy. One even offered to wait here for 4 hours for something to clear up in my day. Listen my day is 100% busy every day (mostly true) I don't really have time to dedicate a complete 1 hr block to listen to your shitty pitch for expensive garbage.
Then they think going around me is going to work out for them, and that I'm, for some reason, not the deciding factor of IT equipment in this office. One of them went around me and tried to tell the boss I was ignoring him (I was) and that we needed to upgrade our equipment (we don't) like he had requested (he never did, but forgot). So the boss comes roaring in asking why I'm ignoring people that he had called.
As soon as I explained it was a sales guy trying to drum up new business and he hadn't actually called this person who was like "oh, well, do you think we need to do it anyways? That stuff is (X) years old." and then I say, "Well, if and when we do, it won't be (company name)'s products."
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
So girl chatting with me on okc turned out to be also trans.
Which is totally fine! I have zero problems dating a trans person, but it has alerted me to an observation: I only seem to attract other trans women. I think I might be cis kryptonite.
I think there are also a lot of other reasons for this, including match correlating.
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
been crazy busy at work recently but I should be able to take a look at the size checker this weekend. I haven't touched it in months so there must be some new manifest requirement or some such from Google.
Automation isn't scary. We adjust. We always have.
The end result, in the long term? We have so much stuff. Like, holy shit, the abundance we live in.
Everyone in my field thinks translation will never truly be automated. The director of operations was pushing machine translation tools and everyone is like "nah this is pointless"
but... no, guys
all non-creative translation is going to be replaced by automated translation within the next decade(s). absolutely. creative translation is hugely more difficult and would rely on AIs that are much closer to genuine, conscious minds, so that's more of a sci-fi thing, but corporate/government/technical docs? absolutely. we mock google translate but it has made huge leaps in the last few years.
and it will come with an abundance of easy communication! a babel fish for simple communication is not too far away as language software improves.
IT won't unionize, there's always "my brother's kid, that's good with computers" so they'd just fire us.
Some software engineer will revolutionize the OS by describing things people want to do in actual real words with a GUI that doesn't obfuscate the important stuff.
No, what's going to happen is people will be using their own devices to connect to platforms as a service (PaaS) style shit, and everything will be azure or AWS or Salesforce and general purpose IT wonks will be deprecated in favor of contracted field services to fix desktops and monitors, and a single administrator to handle the cloud app deployments for tens of thousands of seats.
It is fast becoming D-day for the old IT guard.
I think so, but that shit is expensive. Until it can come down another factor of 10, it'll still be cheaper to have IT on staff dealing with their own inhouse stuff.
Man, it's coming down every. Single. Quarter.
And part of the "cost" involves firing all your IT management staff and paying for premium support from the service vendors instead, which is much cheaper.
And when you aren't paying benefits, healthcare, salary and salary tax, etc etc you could spend 60k a year on licenses and service contracts and still come out waaaay ahead (and probably get faster results) by firing the one IT guy making 65-70k a year.
Yes and no. You can't get rid of the IT guy because there's a good chance your infrastructure can't exist 100% in the cloud. You still have local PCs, routers, switches, etc.
Unless your company is smaller than 20, good luck.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
been crazy busy at work recently but I should be able to take a look at the size checker this weekend. I haven't touched it in months so there must be some new manifest requirement or some such from Google.
for some reason it still works in Chrome on my home computer but not my work one
which is signed in to the same account and presumably both are updated so i dunno why
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
i guess the "in chrome" part was redundant since it's a chrome extension but
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You don't think someone would do that, do you
Just get on the phone and tell lies
it is
there's been a rash of it here lately, it's been on the news and whatnot
the problem is it's difficult to police because the scammers aren't idiots. they're making calls from burner phones so it's really difficult to track.
i just offered to shit on an innocent social media manager's elevator. Internet Justice: not even once.
like a circlejerk that focuses on hauling together and pulling a dick clean off
I'm almost a full inch taller in the mornings.
Or at least I was in my teens, when I had that lamp I bumped my head into in the morning, but I could fit two fingers between it and my head in the afternoon.
fuzzy i hope you do not mind but your misfortune made me laugh audibly
yeah the problem with most of those scams is the first call is just to see if there's a person on the other end so they can open the floodgates
you use it when your measureables correlate directly to more money
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Which is totally fine! I have zero problems dating a trans person, but it has alerted me to an observation: I only seem to attract other trans women. I think I might be cis kryptonite.
But you were doing God's work, fuzzy
tortellini, put in an oven thing and sprinkle pounds of mozarella on top
these alien mindsets
The movie theaters let the cockgoblins set up shop in the lobby and pitch FREE MOVIE TICKETS in exchange for signing up for the scam.
Also none of that shit works right.
You're just switching from IT admins who are good at managing server rooms and hardware to admins who are good at managing cloud services and making them play together.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I have that dvd
The end result, in the long term? We have so much stuff. Like, holy shit, the abundance we live in.
Cistonite
you are a visionary
Yeah we get the power resellers, and we got a "I'm with the power company, we're coming to shut your power off right now unless you buy a bunch of Visa gift cards and give me the numbers to pay your bill" scam a couple months ago too.
i was going to make this pun but it sounded too gross
lifehack also sprinkle some seasoning on top
Typically? They think the lowly peasants answering the phone are interfering with their business transactions with the boss.
Xerox and shit cold call me all the time.
Oh wait did I say cold call me? No they show up at the fucking door asking to see me.
Then get all indignant when they find out I'm busy. One even offered to wait here for 4 hours for something to clear up in my day. Listen my day is 100% busy every day (mostly true) I don't really have time to dedicate a complete 1 hr block to listen to your shitty pitch for expensive garbage.
Then they think going around me is going to work out for them, and that I'm, for some reason, not the deciding factor of IT equipment in this office. One of them went around me and tried to tell the boss I was ignoring him (I was) and that we needed to upgrade our equipment (we don't) like he had requested (he never did, but forgot). So the boss comes roaring in asking why I'm ignoring people that he had called.
As soon as I explained it was a sales guy trying to drum up new business and he hadn't actually called this person who was like "oh, well, do you think we need to do it anyways? That stuff is (X) years old." and then I say, "Well, if and when we do, it won't be (company name)'s products."
$100,000
They will likely be a Kirby sales team using a pretend name to get in your house.
Kirby sucks....a lot....
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I think there are also a lot of other reasons for this, including match correlating.
im already working on step 2
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
been crazy busy at work recently but I should be able to take a look at the size checker this weekend. I haven't touched it in months so there must be some new manifest requirement or some such from Google.
http://www.kirby.com/selling-kirby-vacuums-is-not-a-scam/
protesting too much :rotate:
Everyone in my field thinks translation will never truly be automated. The director of operations was pushing machine translation tools and everyone is like "nah this is pointless"
but... no, guys
all non-creative translation is going to be replaced by automated translation within the next decade(s). absolutely. creative translation is hugely more difficult and would rely on AIs that are much closer to genuine, conscious minds, so that's more of a sci-fi thing, but corporate/government/technical docs? absolutely. we mock google translate but it has made huge leaps in the last few years.
and it will come with an abundance of easy communication! a babel fish for simple communication is not too far away as language software improves.
Yes and no. You can't get rid of the IT guy because there's a good chance your infrastructure can't exist 100% in the cloud. You still have local PCs, routers, switches, etc.
Unless your company is smaller than 20, good luck.
for some reason it still works in Chrome on my home computer but not my work one
which is signed in to the same account and presumably both are updated so i dunno why