I don't think that's what he meant. I think he means that individual employee hours are being cut back. Reduce the number of concurrent employee hours during the work week. I can't confirm that this is the case, because I haven't entered a blockbuster in about two years, but the intent of his statement is clear.
I can confirm this. I work at a blockbuster in Orland, FL. We have received NUMEROUS memos, phone calls, etc. to cut ALL extra hours (basically leaving that minimum 1 employee and 1 manager per store at a time). I expect layoffs or quitting soon as many employees are getting only 0-1 days of work per week.
I would think your in a minority. I would be willing to bet a large segment of the internet population gets regular email from AOL users. Whether they be clients or family members, who you can't simply tell "AOL is a piece of crap, get a different ISP." Why? Because either they'll ignore me or I'll have to spend every other weekend having to show them how to do what they used to do on AOL.
Indeed, I would love to see something where you could choose out of a few different profiles (Minimal, Power User, Everything, etc.) which would add certain extensions preinstalled with the browser. Another idea would be to be able to select what packages to add on before you download and install it. This raises a serious issue though. This then puts the burden of support on the Firefox team to support any bundled software, which I'm sure they have no interest in doing so. Granted they could put in some disclaimer before download about third-party support, but I doubt "Joe User" is going to read it, and if something breaks will still attempt to contact the Firefox team for help.
I think the more important difference to note is that with speeding, there is a decent chance of not getting caught. With hacking the PSP I think the majority of those doing so will wish to share their creation with others, thus admitting their "guilt."
That is a possible, but inlikely scenario. How many people have active credit cards in their name that they can not locate? Besides, even in this event, explaining it to the manager would likely get you a refund anyway (speaking as a former manager at Blockbuster).
I can't speak of the training other employees might have received, but as part of my training for the No More Late fees rollout, I (and the rest of my store) watched a video presentation from Blockbuster corporate expressly stating the OPPOSITE of what you just said. At no time were we told not to reveal details except for the sake of brevity. If any customer asked for details we were asked to share as much as we knew (which included the full information about the post 7 day purchase + restocking fees) to insure the customer was comforatable with the promotion.
That's just plain untrue. Any store that is participating in the No More Late fees promotion should gladly refund the price of the movie back to your credit card (minus the restocking fee of $1.25).
Unfortunately for the uninformed, Blockbuster had already established a program like NetFlix (called the Movie Pass) where you pay a monthly fee to keep a movie as long as you like and tried it out as many times as you wish. Therefore trying to apply NetFlixes business model to this promotion is just plain ignorance.
I agree, I was a Verizon customer when this first occured and I was maxing my connection out daily downloading all kinds of things, though most of it was not P2P.
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I don't think that's what he meant. I think he means that individual employee hours are being cut back. Reduce the number of concurrent employee hours during the work week. I can't confirm that this is the case, because I haven't entered a blockbuster in about two years, but the intent of his statement is clear. I can confirm this. I work at a blockbuster in Orland, FL. We have received NUMEROUS memos, phone calls, etc. to cut ALL extra hours (basically leaving that minimum 1 employee and 1 manager per store at a time). I expect layoffs or quitting soon as many employees are getting only 0-1 days of work per week.
Why is this overrated? This is TYPICAL Adams humor!
While yelling "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
Not out of the box no, but it seems like it could be possible with third party plugins.
I would think your in a minority. I would be willing to bet a large segment of the internet population gets regular email from AOL users. Whether they be clients or family members, who you can't simply tell "AOL is a piece of crap, get a different ISP." Why? Because either they'll ignore me or I'll have to spend every other weekend having to show them how to do what they used to do on AOL.
I agree, probably the only other book that has been that funny to me was Catch 22.
Indeed, I would love to see something where you could choose out of a few different profiles (Minimal, Power User, Everything, etc.) which would add certain extensions preinstalled with the browser. Another idea would be to be able to select what packages to add on before you download and install it. This raises a serious issue though. This then puts the burden of support on the Firefox team to support any bundled software, which I'm sure they have no interest in doing so. Granted they could put in some disclaimer before download about third-party support, but I doubt "Joe User" is going to read it, and if something breaks will still attempt to contact the Firefox team for help.
I think the more important difference to note is that with speeding, there is a decent chance of not getting caught. With hacking the PSP I think the majority of those doing so will wish to share their creation with others, thus admitting their "guilt."
I think it's more a matter of memory than inconvenience.
OT but couldn't you use a series of multiplexers/demultiplxers?
That is a possible, but inlikely scenario. How many people have active credit cards in their name that they can not locate? Besides, even in this event, explaining it to the manager would likely get you a refund anyway (speaking as a former manager at Blockbuster).
Actually Blockbuster split (or is in process of splitting) with Viacom, and is now its own corporate entity.
I can't speak of the training other employees might have received, but as part of my training for the No More Late fees rollout, I (and the rest of my store) watched a video presentation from Blockbuster corporate expressly stating the OPPOSITE of what you just said. At no time were we told not to reveal details except for the sake of brevity. If any customer asked for details we were asked to share as much as we knew (which included the full information about the post 7 day purchase + restocking fees) to insure the customer was comforatable with the promotion.
That's just plain untrue. Any store that is participating in the No More Late fees promotion should gladly refund the price of the movie back to your credit card (minus the restocking fee of $1.25).
Unfortunately for the uninformed, Blockbuster had already established a program like NetFlix (called the Movie Pass) where you pay a monthly fee to keep a movie as long as you like and tried it out as many times as you wish. Therefore trying to apply NetFlixes business model to this promotion is just plain ignorance.
Are you new here? Real geeks don't like sports! ;)
I agree, I was a Verizon customer when this first occured and I was maxing my connection out daily downloading all kinds of things, though most of it was not P2P.