I've never had any sympathy for business that screw up just because they want to save money. Business run entirely by young, barley trained teenagers because the owner doesn't want to pay any more for some experienced help or spend some time actually training it's staff. Then you find out your untrained employees are not charging enough or giving out too much change and you're loosing money, well what the hell did you expect.
Now things are online but not much has changed. Now they pay the lowest wage they can to programers to get the website ready for now, but they don't want to spend money for quality control. Sites go live with little testing and zero monitoring. My opinion is if you want a computer running your business, you make damn sure that it is doing it correctly and if it's not, that is your own fault and you need to suffer the consequences that go with that.
Many discounts are not properly advertised such as manufacture discounts, 2 for 1 sales or x% off after spending $y. Many price reductions are applied at the register so items will still have a $50 sticker on them when on sale for $40 so when scanned they show up for less. It is not uncommon for people to be surprised that items cost come to less than they expect when they find out something is on sale they were unaware of.
Oh, so they took care of that 16 billion dollar loss and fixed everything. My bad. Business as usual then. I'm sure the USPS won't have any more problems in the near future.
What are you talking about? Here in America, the USPS isn't reducing service at all, it's increasing service by delivering parcels on Sundays. While we definitely have big problems in other areas (*cough* healthcare *cough*), our postal service is doing just fine, unlike yours apparently.
Yea, other than that your doing fine. Package delivery is up everywhere, especially now during the holidays, but mail delivery is way down everywhere all year long. Things are going to change.
The best thing for Zawi to do is probably just call it a loss. They have done the chest thumping and legal threats and probably have gotten most units back. Going to court would probably cost more time and money than the value of the PS. Offer anyone that did send their units back a gift card to reward honesty for a decent amount so no one would think that they would have been better off keeping the PS. The next step is getting your shit together so that it doesn't happen again.
I see a whole lot of mail returned to sender for being abandoned, or being discarded for being abandoned, in those communal mailboxes. I also see a lot of people only visiting their mailboxes weekly, like how they take out their trash cans for the truck to pick up, so mailboxes will be even bigger targets for thieves as there'll be more payoff for the effort than before.
I really have no idea where you get the abandoned mail thing from. My first house I had I only checked the mail once a month so I can pay my monthly bills. Unfortunately the previous owner gave to many charities and received lots of mail from them soliciting more funds. PETA, UNICEF, Child sponsorship, SPCA, Cancer society, March of Dimes, if you can think of it, he probably gave to them at some point. When my box was full, the mail man just crammed more junk mail in there. I swear he was probably punching the mail just to get it in there some days. Anyway, I really have no idea why you think mail would be declared abandoned for sitting there for a few days. Most people just check their mail on the way home from work anyway.
Theft is always a possibility but the reality is that it is not really a problem. Yes there is more mail in once location but it's locked in small groups. By passing the master lock gets you 10 mailboxes. You need to repeat again for another 10. In these rural areas you are going from an unlocked box at the end of a driveway to a locked box down the road at a high traffic area. Theft is really not a concern.
No, that is how you justify your arrogance and and why you act so condescending. No true understanding of whats going on, you just simplify everyone as kids wanting free stuff. I bet when you saw the title you got so hard thinking about screaming "double standards" at the users and how morally superior you think you are.
I considered at this point explaining everything but frankly it would fall of deaf ears.
HA HA HA HA. Nice in theory but that is assuming you have intelligent teachers that know how to dissect something. Most can only follow the lesson plan as indicated and only will if it comes with an answer key.
An infallible God just means he dropped a tree on your car and crushed the fuck out of it for a reason. God wants me to make an insurance claim and buy a new car. It's good for the economy!
If accident rates go way down, so do the pay outs they need to make. They could probably stand to lay off a few agents with less work to do. Don't worry your pretty little head, the insurance companies are going to be just fine.
Wow, it's like you're going out of your way to be wrong. San Francisco's systems were so well set up and secured from anyone screwing around with them that they operated just fine without intervention with anyone. They feared that they couldn't fix anything if it was shut down but nothing broke. He refused to divulge the passwords to just anyone and the only person he would give them to was the mayor. Only when the mayor finally showed up to see him did they get the passwords.
Also once they were back into the system did things start fucking up.
I know reading the article is not required to post, as evidence of the entirety of Slashdot, but they specifically state, in the first damn line of the frigging article, they spent over a decade addressing and solving that problem.
This is what immediately springs to mind. There are two possible scenarios. Either the safety of everyone is being completely ignored due to paperwork and politics, or 90% or the staff is completely unnecessary to provide that safety. I'm sad about either scenario.
That was a road to nowhere. They built a road in Alaska to nowhere that was meant to go to a bridge but they already decided to not build the bridge there. The paper work for the road contract was signed and to far gone that no one was smart enough to figure out how to cancel the contract so it was just easier to build the road.
The question is, "why did I pull you over?" not, "do you know how you fucked up?" I'm not a mind reader so I honestly don't know which of several possible reasons you decided to select. Maybe I did make an infraction, maybe you are looking for someone else that drives a similar car to the one I'm in, maybe you need to warn me about road conditions ahead or some other unusual event. So no, I honestly do not know why you pulled me over and it is not a crime for me not to know.
Hahahahhaaaahhahaha! Really? You obviously have not worked with a union workforce before, and have NO IDEA how often this kind of crap happens. Yes, as a group, union workers are a good group of men and women dedicated to doing their jobs in a professional manner. 95% of them will give you 8 hours work for 8 hours pay. But, there are the 5% out there that will expend more effort looking for ways to avoid work than they will actually doing work. It's unfair to me as an employer. It's unfair to the person paying the bills, my customer. And it's unfair to the 95% of the people that don't abuse the system.
I get that, I get that it happens. But what your telling me is that 100% of the workforce is willing to follow the union, oppose their employer, possibly strike in the near future, all so that 5% of their work force can continue to abuse the system? That makes no sense. I was looking for other reasons both for or against the systems.
Using computers and touch screens because they are new and fancy is stupid when a pen and paper will do.
How about using technology to improve a process? Yeah, pen and paper will most certainly get the job done. That doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. Five years ago my company would have told you there is absolutely nothing wrong with their paper time sheets. Now that they have a touch-screen based time-keeping system, they understand how old and broken their paper time-sheet system was.
I'm not against technology, technology can be great when used correctly. What I don't like is technology for the "just because" Things like voting machines that are less secure and less accurate then pen and paper. Things like $100,000.00 automated public toilets that are supposed to take care of them selves and fix so many problems but the just end up having an out of order sign on them 4 months later. In the end the only thing they really do is make the seller a lot of money.
I'm currently undecided if this is a good thing or not. On one hand, I'm against technology for the sake of technology. Using computers and touch screens because they are new and fancy is stupid when a pen and paper will do. It's one thing to have biometrics in clean areas like banks and office buildings, it's another to have then in maintenance areas. How long before they start to fail and workers are not getting paid because they can't clock in due to dirt and grease build up.
On the other hand, They have really failed to outline how their civil liberties are being attacked. To what extent can someones thumbprint be abused and how will this affect workers and their rights. None of that was even attempted to be explained.
To anyone saying that the workers just want to fraudulently sign in for someone else and abuse the system needs to try again and come up with a real argument. The assumption that workers just want to screw over employers is elitist and is a part of the same poor logic of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about." It completely side steps the real issues and disguises the technology as only hurting the bad people. While I don't deny that fraud probably happens, there is no way that fraud is the sole reason for rejection of biometrics. Give real reasons for it, not made up reasons for why the are against it.
Wow, what a fuckload of masturbatory feel good bullshit. I'm talking about a restaurant and their fucking COFFEE options but of course that must mean that must be my opinion about every major public issue. Nice that you need to bring up your political leanings so everyone can know what a great fucking person you are. I think you forgot to mention that you are against Hitler and the Nazis were a bad thing.
You sound like the sort of loud mouth idiot that jerks off to the American flag every night proclaiming how good freedom feels. Just because I used the word minority, doesn't mean I'm referring to every TYPE of minatory, but never fear, you will be there wearing a cape telling everyone how great you are not realizing there is no one needing your help.
That's easy. It should be at a temperature that is less than what would cause severe physical damage if someone had it spilled on them, a not uncommon accident. The line between "ow ow ow thats hot" and "Ahhhhhh I need surgery" is easy enough to draw.
As for what a minority of people want. I don't give a flying fuck. That is what thermoses and microwaves are for. Still not good enough, brew your own fucking coffee.
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I've never had any sympathy for business that screw up just because they want to save money. Business run entirely by young, barley trained teenagers because the owner doesn't want to pay any more for some experienced help or spend some time actually training it's staff. Then you find out your untrained employees are not charging enough or giving out too much change and you're loosing money, well what the hell did you expect.
Now things are online but not much has changed. Now they pay the lowest wage they can to programers to get the website ready for now, but they don't want to spend money for quality control. Sites go live with little testing and zero monitoring. My opinion is if you want a computer running your business, you make damn sure that it is doing it correctly and if it's not, that is your own fault and you need to suffer the consequences that go with that.
Many discounts are not properly advertised such as manufacture discounts, 2 for 1 sales or x% off after spending $y. Many price reductions are applied at the register so items will still have a $50 sticker on them when on sale for $40 so when scanned they show up for less. It is not uncommon for people to be surprised that items cost come to less than they expect when they find out something is on sale they were unaware of.
They ignore every other right granted by it so why not?
Oh, so they took care of that 16 billion dollar loss and fixed everything. My bad. Business as usual then. I'm sure the USPS won't have any more problems in the near future.
What are you talking about? Here in America, the USPS isn't reducing service at all, it's increasing service by delivering parcels on Sundays. While we definitely have big problems in other areas (*cough* healthcare *cough*), our postal service is doing just fine, unlike yours apparently.
Well either you haven't been paying attention or you have a short memory. There is this little thing how the USPS is loosing a bit of money,
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/1440224/usps-reports-159-billion-loss-asks-congress-for-help
And the bit where they cut out Saturday mail delivery...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/06/1738249/us-postal-service-discontinuing-saturday-mail-delivery
Yea, other than that your doing fine. Package delivery is up everywhere, especially now during the holidays, but mail delivery is way down everywhere all year long. Things are going to change.
Unless you want to take away a few guns, then that is all they care about.
The best thing for Zawi to do is probably just call it a loss. They have done the chest thumping and legal threats and probably have gotten most units back. Going to court would probably cost more time and money than the value of the PS. Offer anyone that did send their units back a gift card to reward honesty for a decent amount so no one would think that they would have been better off keeping the PS. The next step is getting your shit together so that it doesn't happen again.
I see a whole lot of mail returned to sender for being abandoned, or being discarded for being abandoned, in those communal mailboxes. I also see a lot of people only visiting their mailboxes weekly, like how they take out their trash cans for the truck to pick up, so mailboxes will be even bigger targets for thieves as there'll be more payoff for the effort than before.
I really have no idea where you get the abandoned mail thing from. My first house I had I only checked the mail once a month so I can pay my monthly bills. Unfortunately the previous owner gave to many charities and received lots of mail from them soliciting more funds. PETA, UNICEF, Child sponsorship, SPCA, Cancer society, March of Dimes, if you can think of it, he probably gave to them at some point. When my box was full, the mail man just crammed more junk mail in there. I swear he was probably punching the mail just to get it in there some days. Anyway, I really have no idea why you think mail would be declared abandoned for sitting there for a few days. Most people just check their mail on the way home from work anyway.
Theft is always a possibility but the reality is that it is not really a problem. Yes there is more mail in once location but it's locked in small groups. By passing the master lock gets you 10 mailboxes. You need to repeat again for another 10. In these rural areas you are going from an unlocked box at the end of a driveway to a locked box down the road at a high traffic area. Theft is really not a concern.
Those are packages. While package delivery is up, letter volume is way down. Over all the post office is still making less money.
Do you guys hear that? That is the sound of Canadians not flipping out and loosing their shit and calling for the end of times due to reduced service.
It's quite a pleasant sound up here in Canada, unlike the noise Americans made a short while back.
They just want their free stuff. That's it.
No, that is how you justify your arrogance and and why you act so condescending. No true understanding of whats going on, you just simplify everyone as kids wanting free stuff. I bet when you saw the title you got so hard thinking about screaming "double standards" at the users and how morally superior you think you are.
I considered at this point explaining everything but frankly it would fall of deaf ears.
HA HA HA HA. Nice in theory but that is assuming you have intelligent teachers that know how to dissect something. Most can only follow the lesson plan as indicated and only will if it comes with an answer key.
An infallible God just means he dropped a tree on your car and crushed the fuck out of it for a reason. God wants me to make an insurance claim and buy a new car. It's good for the economy!
If accident rates go way down, so do the pay outs they need to make. They could probably stand to lay off a few agents with less work to do. Don't worry your pretty little head, the insurance companies are going to be just fine.
Or acts of god. Or stupid people around your parked car. "Hey! A baseball, hold my beer and watch this..."
Wow, it's like you're going out of your way to be wrong. San Francisco's systems were so well set up and secured from anyone screwing around with them that they operated just fine without intervention with anyone. They feared that they couldn't fix anything if it was shut down but nothing broke. He refused to divulge the passwords to just anyone and the only person he would give them to was the mayor. Only when the mayor finally showed up to see him did they get the passwords. Also once they were back into the system did things start fucking up.
I know reading the article is not required to post, as evidence of the entirety of Slashdot, but they specifically state, in the first damn line of the frigging article, they spent over a decade addressing and solving that problem.
This is what immediately springs to mind. There are two possible scenarios. Either the safety of everyone is being completely ignored due to paperwork and politics, or 90% or the staff is completely unnecessary to provide that safety. I'm sad about either scenario.
That was a road to nowhere. They built a road in Alaska to nowhere that was meant to go to a bridge but they already decided to not build the bridge there. The paper work for the road contract was signed and to far gone that no one was smart enough to figure out how to cancel the contract so it was just easier to build the road.
The question is, "why did I pull you over?" not, "do you know how you fucked up?" I'm not a mind reader so I honestly don't know which of several possible reasons you decided to select. Maybe I did make an infraction, maybe you are looking for someone else that drives a similar car to the one I'm in, maybe you need to warn me about road conditions ahead or some other unusual event. So no, I honestly do not know why you pulled me over and it is not a crime for me not to know.
Exxon-Mobil's argument that saw no whales only fortifies the suspicion that they were driving the whales away.
I have this rock that keeps bears away that I'm willing to sell you. It works because I don't see any bears around here.
Hahahahhaaaahhahaha! Really? You obviously have not worked with a union workforce before, and have NO IDEA how often this kind of crap happens. Yes, as a group, union workers are a good group of men and women dedicated to doing their jobs in a professional manner. 95% of them will give you 8 hours work for 8 hours pay. But, there are the 5% out there that will expend more effort looking for ways to avoid work than they will actually doing work. It's unfair to me as an employer. It's unfair to the person paying the bills, my customer. And it's unfair to the 95% of the people that don't abuse the system.
I get that, I get that it happens. But what your telling me is that 100% of the workforce is willing to follow the union, oppose their employer, possibly strike in the near future, all so that 5% of their work force can continue to abuse the system? That makes no sense. I was looking for other reasons both for or against the systems.
Using computers and touch screens because they are new and fancy is stupid when a pen and paper will do.
How about using technology to improve a process? Yeah, pen and paper will most certainly get the job done. That doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. Five years ago my company would have told you there is absolutely nothing wrong with their paper time sheets. Now that they have a touch-screen based time-keeping system, they understand how old and broken their paper time-sheet system was.
I'm not against technology, technology can be great when used correctly. What I don't like is technology for the "just because" Things like voting machines that are less secure and less accurate then pen and paper. Things like $100,000.00 automated public toilets that are supposed to take care of them selves and fix so many problems but the just end up having an out of order sign on them 4 months later. In the end the only thing they really do is make the seller a lot of money.
I'm currently undecided if this is a good thing or not. On one hand, I'm against technology for the sake of technology. Using computers and touch screens because they are new and fancy is stupid when a pen and paper will do. It's one thing to have biometrics in clean areas like banks and office buildings, it's another to have then in maintenance areas. How long before they start to fail and workers are not getting paid because they can't clock in due to dirt and grease build up.
On the other hand, They have really failed to outline how their civil liberties are being attacked. To what extent can someones thumbprint be abused and how will this affect workers and their rights. None of that was even attempted to be explained.
To anyone saying that the workers just want to fraudulently sign in for someone else and abuse the system needs to try again and come up with a real argument. The assumption that workers just want to screw over employers is elitist and is a part of the same poor logic of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about." It completely side steps the real issues and disguises the technology as only hurting the bad people. While I don't deny that fraud probably happens, there is no way that fraud is the sole reason for rejection of biometrics. Give real reasons for it, not made up reasons for why the are against it.
Wow, what a fuckload of masturbatory feel good bullshit. I'm talking about a restaurant and their fucking COFFEE options but of course that must mean that must be my opinion about every major public issue. Nice that you need to bring up your political leanings so everyone can know what a great fucking person you are. I think you forgot to mention that you are against Hitler and the Nazis were a bad thing.
You sound like the sort of loud mouth idiot that jerks off to the American flag every night proclaiming how good freedom feels. Just because I used the word minority, doesn't mean I'm referring to every TYPE of minatory, but never fear, you will be there wearing a cape telling everyone how great you are not realizing there is no one needing your help.
Please, go fuck your self you elitist asshole.
That's easy. It should be at a temperature that is less than what would cause severe physical damage if someone had it spilled on them, a not uncommon accident. The line between "ow ow ow thats hot" and "Ahhhhhh I need surgery" is easy enough to draw.
As for what a minority of people want. I don't give a flying fuck. That is what thermoses and microwaves are for. Still not good enough, brew your own fucking coffee.