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mrgoosmoos

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  • been both sides of that counter

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  • but what fraction of those people are those that wouldn't just go the day before or after closure instead?

    The only gain the store is making is customers who need something that day and will go to another open store instead

  • been both sides of that counter

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  • in the winter, I push my errands out until there's enough snow to slide around in, if I have to drive

    you're telling me that I get to go drift (reponsibly, of course), I get a basically empty store with nobody blocking the aisles or anything, the parking lot is wide open, and the checkouts have no lines? fucking sign me up

    I really think the argument that "people who go into stores are the reason the store is open" is kind of dumb. The reason the store is open is because the owners want to make more money, and they think they can do that by staying open. I had to do the errand sooner or later anyways, it makes no difference to the amount of money I am spending at your store if I go in today or tomorrow. but it's more fun and convenient for me to go today. if you were closed because of the weather, I would be mildly disappointed, and then forget about it in 3 minutes because I'm having fun sliding around.

    blaming the customer in this situation is like blaming the customer for your boss paying you below minimum wage.

  • Real Struggle 😔

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  • you can still do that

    it's buggier than it used to be, though

  • Real Struggle 😔

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  • depends

    are they trying to export a PDF from Microsoft Word? because Microsoft makes that difficult nowadays

  • Anyone find this? I'm old so don't

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  • oh god

    we still regularly get comments "I don't have access to the [whatever local drive letter OneDrive is using for the user] drive"

    like motherfucker IT'S ALL THE SAME FUCKING DRIVE, JUST LOOK AT THE PATH AND FOLLOW THAT ON YOUR LOCAL ONE

    I have no idea why Microsoft removed the ability to map OneDrive to a drive letter. we have a third party tool but it sucks.

    I've even made a two page document (big font and pretty pictures) to explain the difference, and people don't look at it when they're onboarded. or their supervisor didn't add it to the onboarding package.

  • Anyone find this? I'm old so don't

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  • that's what pisses me off about going the extra mile and making such clear instructions

    like why the fuck am I doing it if you're not going to read it

    a separate issue to this is the feedback I've been getting from management lately

    • "so and so needs more clear instructions, you need to accommodate that as a supervisor"
    • "your messages are too long, they need to be more concise" — meanwhile it's literally a flow chart in bullet point form of "if this do that, else go to next bullet"

    like what the fuck do you guys want from me, I'm doing extra here to make it simple, if people are fucking stupid that's not my problem

    a guy who just quit routinely turned in work that had some shit wrong with it. just today I found something that was wrong in yet another way every time I looked a bit deeper at. the short version is: "this thing needs to be able to move in the positive x direction. here is a message that this guy sent me showing that he intends for it to move in the positive x direction. here is what this guy designed, that moves in the negative x direction." okay I'll go fix that, wait the way this is set up clearly shows that this was not a simple mistake and that he simply fundamentally misunderstood what this thing is supposed to do, even though he sent me a diagram of what it's supposed to do.

    /rant

  • Anyone find this? I'm old so don't

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  • dude we have to do the same shit with people, and it's not always young people. Some people just don't fucking understand stuff

    literally step by step instructions with screenshots and they sometimes still don't get it, and usually it's not because the instructions were unclear, they simply did not follow what it clearly said because they fundamentally lack understanding or something I don't fucking know

    I used to think it was an unreasonable challenge just to get people to paste values and not formats in Excel. it seems like that's going to be even more difficult going forward. I fucking hate it when I'm looking at a table with a half column of cells with a border on the bottom because my dumbass coworker doesn't give a shit about quality and just dragged the first row cell down. like it takes no extra effort to do it cleanly, that shit pisses me off. and it's not for lack of knowledge, they've been taught this and shown it explicitly and told that it's the expectation to have cleanly formatted files. I couldn't imagine handing in work that just had a giant shit stain on the front and thinking that's okay.

  • Anyone find this? I'm old so don't

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  • not in my workplace

    we have to teach people how to navigate directories. mind-blowing

    fuck, yesterday I had to explain a local drive map and the user-specific OneDrive folder location to our IT guy (who is 20-25). although I am pretty sure he is a jr tech

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • if working with my hands like a peasant paid what my job does, I'd do it in a heartbeat. fuck this mental exhaustion and stress, I'd rather be working the field eight hours a day for the same pay

    AI is not coming for my job, which leads me to believe it's not coming for that many other 'skilled' jobs

  • I've Hit The Perfect Weight

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  • damn. well congrats on the progress so far

    hope it goes well. your knees and ankles will thank you

  • Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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  • siege was pretty cool for the first two years

  • Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

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  • I will try that (if I remember). good proposal

  • its a 1999 nissan actually

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  • my 'new' car is four years newer than my older car

    I've had my older car for like seven years now

    the jump from ~2012 to whatever my next car is will either be an even bigger relative step backwards in age, or be huge because of how many years of vehicles are simply not an option due to shitty tech, touchscreens, bad UI design, and LED headlights

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  • I was there for a while. I finally got around to it and played semi regularly for a year and a bit, took a year or two off, and then finished off what was apparently the last quest of the base game lol

    it's a decent game. you don't need to a ton of time to make it worthwhile but you do need to play it in slightly longer individual chunks (playing 30 min at a time isn't very viable).

    if you can, give it a try. but yeah it does require some time, it's not like popping into minecraft for a bit or mini metro for a round. but it's also not like civ's 'just one more turn'

    I liked the story, environments, and gameplay. I found I enjoyed it best when I actually relaxed into it instead of trying to rush through and complete stuff, so again yeah maybe won't be possible for your available time. but it's not necessary to complete it to get enjoyment out of it. around a third of the way through to halfway through is probably where I enjoyed it the most. maybe even earlier?

  • Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

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  • copilot keeps making a "copilat chat files" folder in my documents folder without my consent and I keep deleting it, and that's enough for me to never ever want to deal with it

  • A new quest appears...

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  • yeah we don't tend to have logical home choices like that over here in Canada

    we also like to design bathrooms in such a way that the sink is immediately in front of the opening door, which means you're not allowed to put the light switch adjacent to the door knob of the closed door position where it would be really convenient and intuitive, which means it's usually awkwardly beyond the door knob in the open door position, because we never have light switches outside of the room they control

  • A new quest appears...

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  • why, is your landlord coming by to check if you've extended a switch circuit outside of the wall?

    tape that shit to the wall and live in the future with your light switch right next to your bed

  • A new quest appears...

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  • getting up to grab my phone from across the room where I keep it so I don't doomscroll in bed

    because I forgot to turn off the smart bulbs that are also controlled by the switch on the other side of the room

  • 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI

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  • there's no chance my company stops using Windows any time soon

    and until then, I need MS to stop doing their goddamn best to make it impossible for me to do my job