Posts by Derezed 199 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2012
Sadly they seem wise to this. I repeat “Human Now” but have been defeated by chat bots with no get out clause. It used to be stay silent until the system put you through to a human to find out what’s going on with the line…then they started venting people to dial tone. I had a battle of will with a chat bot that obstinately refused my human now request. I had to play its game.
To be fair Jeremy Corbyn does have a portion of the blame. If he wasn’t so unelectable the Tory scum might not have had such a large majority. A useful idiot to the end…glad his political career appears to be over. We can now get rid of the tories and replace them with something slightly less blue.
“ Yeah, yeah. Until someone moves on or gets hit by a bus. The reason they use the big boys is because they know when the shit hits the fan they have the resources to step up to the plate and fix things.”
This one is not true. Large companies don’t have lots of idle highly skilled resources to jump in when it all goes tits up. The only thing they have is the ability to take the hit when it goes to shit and provide a barely alive level of service to try to unfuck stuff. So they won’t go under but your project is still gonna die. Smaller companies often have more skin in the game and can’t afford to just write off their million pound customer like your Deloitte, ibm, Microsoft’s can…or just tell them to sit in line.
I think you fixed the wrong thing. He has a good reason not to work from the office like his drones: he’s rich and can’t be arsed. This will be BAU for senior management, their friends and tennis partners and GET BACK TO YOUR FUCKING WORKSTATION OIK! For everyone else. It’s a lose/win situation!
2023 and this shit still happens?
Good for me for what I do…bad for people fucked over by an unbelievably poor system.
AI will replace us all…yeah right…this was a problem 20 years ago…another 20 and I’ll retire and people will still be pulling shit like this.
Do better!!!!
Saying they should have used MS Access instead of Excel for this application is like saying the person responsible for cleaning the Golden Gate Bridge should use a hairbrush instead of a toothbrush…these are desktop applications not enterprise data management tools!
Sounds valid and rational to me.
Not sure on actual cost savings vs not paying for stuff. I'd be interested to see what twitter needs data centre wise vs what it has vs what it pays for. You can't just stiff your suppliers indefinitely.
On the engineering solutions front, do Twitter have an R&D function that would be able to progress those engineering solutions to reduce costs? That sounds like something someone else would do and Twitter would lease/buy in whatever they manufacture. Wouldn't this be largely what any competent company would do, not specifically Twitter?
I don't know about the business focused leader thing...I'll take your word for it, but the upshot appears to be:
1) Twitter had too many staff that cost too much and weren't required
2) Twitter had too much hardware that cost too much and wasn't required
I guess the proof of these statements will be in whether the service continues to be a service in the medium/long term.
We need to look closer to home for a real low point.
Namely the Lancashire town of Nelson.
Patricia Hannah-Wood was named the winner but...er...she didn't win...the wrong name was announced. The Tory Julie Green expected Pat to step down (since she had lost), but Pat is not for turning! Win or not, she's got her seat and it's her constituents' problem! ...local democracy in action! Your vote really does matter...unless it doesn't.
I guess there's no IT angle to this shit show though.
What's your point? They still "saved" the money...all that's happened is all of their employees personal data is all over the internet...no biggie...a year's supply of Experian credit checker will be enough to sort all that out.
The cost to the business of this breach is...zero. They don't care.
What meat is there? Does Twitter have an R&D department? Does it control lots of IP/Patents? Genuine question. Not sure ex ad revenue can be liquidated. Maybe it was that tat that the chief twat was flogging on ebay...ebay signs and merch and such...might be a lean corpse for the creditors to fight over.
Sounds like envy. Influencers are a tiny percentage of the overall work force and most people don’t give a toss about what they do.
Your analysis is likely overly simplistic. The other day when banks offered 100% mortgages as a solution to the deposit problem , some dick head said they can’t buy a house because one isn’t available local to them. That’s a massive fail and shows a cringey level of entitlement.
Under 30s are more than capable of being crippled by mortgage debt just like over 30s.
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