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makingStuffForFun ,
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In Australia, if it scans higher than the price on the shelf, it is free.

young_broccoli ,

Im a locksmith.

Customer: Do you make duplicates?
Me: Yes
C: How much?
M: Depends on the type of key
C: The normal one
M: -_-

Or, after opening a customers door who was locked out:

C: Why so expensive tho? It only took you five minutes!
M: -_- (Thats exactly why you dumb fuck, and I told you the price beforehand)

I also hate when people tries to haggle the price because I know for a fact that Im the cheapest locksmith in the area.

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

Who are you and how did you get in here?

young_broccoli ,

Im a locksmith and... Im a locksmith.

never gets old.

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

I’d be tempted to lock them back out and leave.

young_broccoli ,

Yeah, I have thought about it. Perhaps some day when I get really tired of that BS I will do it but for now, I need the monies.

Zerlyna ,
@Zerlyna@lemmy.world avatar

Meanwhile you’ve spent 30-60 minutes driving for their problem. I feel ya.

young_broccoli ,

Those are the worst! Thankfully my drive times arent usually that long.

Sanctus ,
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When I join into a call with one if our software vendor support teams and they waste 45 of my minutes cause they dont know wtf is going on in our SaaS environment they control. Like get it the fuck together or let me host it.

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

My husband is a DBA and I hear him on his work calls sometimes. Same shit, weakest link on the call holding up everybody’s work day.

xmunk ,

My executive saying “Revenue is up 30% YoY! […] Due to budget cuts we’re limited to a 4% raise+CoL adjustment this year.”

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

The places where corporate decides to penny-pinch is truly infuriating.

Reverendender ,

You get CoL adjustments?!

xmunk ,

Baked into our medicore raises… yeah!

PonyOfWar ,

“Can we integrate AI into this app?”

“Can you do a browser version of this high-end VR training application?” somehow makes a browser version “Why isn’t this running on my iPhone 3GS?!”

bjoern_tantau ,
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To be fair, WebXR does make VR stuff possible in a browser. But I guess that wasn’t what they wanted.

Reverendender ,

“I’m trying to identify a source of truth”

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

What’s your job?

Reverendender ,

Process Manager

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

I googled “identify a source of truth” and was treated to a plethora of buzzwordy tweets and articles worthy of Deepak Chopra.

I’m so sorry.

Reverendender ,

Let’s put a pin in it, and we can circle back when we have more bandwidth. Hopefully it’s not too heavy a lift.

BearOfaTime ,

Oh Ffs kill me I hate this nonsense.

flamingo_pinyata ,

It’s supposed to be a good practice … in theory. In practice nobody knows what exists and who’s in charge of what and there’s exceptions and exceptions to exceptions.

Speaking for software engineering perspective. I see in other comment you’re doing process engineering, I assume the term is used in a similar way

bjoern_tantau ,
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As someone who had to work on syncing multiple databases of customer and order data this was actually very important for me to know. Turned out that it could vary on a field by field basis and could also depend on the type of customer and where they came from.

To sync up our new and shiny SAP CRM with several Access databases and our customer-facing software I ended up writing a script that would collect all data field by field with varying hierarchies and writing it back out to everything. Worked surprisingly well.

EleventhHour , (edited )
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

“These Samsung appliances look nice…”

Yes they do— and that’s all they do well. That, and break in expensive ways, often and early.

Avoid Samsung appliances.

Edit: I sell appliances

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
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That’s disappointing since Samsung is such a big and well-known brand. Good to know though, so thanks.

EleventhHour ,
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Even as an iPhone guy, I’ll say that their consumer electronics are just fine. Very good, even.

But their appliances are crap. Apparently, they used to be quite good, but once they got a bug up their ass about sticking a bonkers amount of tech into them, they started cutting costs on build quality, so they just don’t last more than a few years before parts start crapping out.

Companies like LG and GE are much better at balancing tech, quality, reliability, and price points.

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

I can’t stand “fancy” electronic appliances. I hate all the musical beeping and half the time the panels don’t even recognize my finger taps. It makes doing chores more frustrating than it already is.

We recently bought a fixer-upper and have had to replace a bunch of old appliances. I told my husband the simpler/cheaper the appliance is, the better. Knobs over digital displays.

The only time I like the newer digital versions is with microwave ovens.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

I hate to break it to you, but even with the knobby versions, it’s still electronic under the hood. But I know what you mean about the annoying bleeps and bloops. Again, though, the Samsungs were always the worst offenders in that regard, omg…

GEs make little noise, and LGs are pretty low-key. Whirlpools and Maytags just beep a couple of times.

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

Of course they’ve been electronic for decades, but lately it seems they have overdone it so the thing actually becomes less convenient. Kinda like in cars.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

And some of the high-end models yes, but there’s still a wide range available with different levels of “functionality.”

You should check out Electrolux. They make some really nice laundry appliances without any smart features at all. They’re great.

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

My husband and I literally just unwrapped a new Whirlpool washer.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

enjoy!

over_clox ,

Have you ever rebuilt and repaired old electrical appliances? An old microwave with a turn dial timer is most certainly not electronic. Electrical sure, but not electronic.

Those only basically have a mechanical timer dial, high voltage transformer, high voltage diode, magnetron, light, fan, turntable motor, fuse, and some safety switches for the door.

Absolutely nothing electronic about them, they’re as dumb as an old-school toaster, they just happen to use high voltage to generate microwaves instead.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

i’m not referring to old appliances

over_clox ,

Well, generally speaking, most people discussing the benefits of appliances and stuff with turn dials are referring to older/simpler appliances, back before they started adding in unnecessary electronics and ‘features’ and stuff.

I’ve never actually seen any microwave with a turn dial that has any sort of electronics in them, those are all built almost identical in schematics, aside from different sizes and wattages.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

Well, generally speaking, most people discussing the benefits of appliances and stuff with turn dials are referring to older/simpler appliances, back before they started adding in unnecessary electronics and ‘features’ and stuff.

i don’t know why you’d assume that. lots of current/new appliances are still made with dials and knobs. in fact, most are.

also, you’re the only one here discussing microwaves. so far, others and myself have been discussing refrigerators and laundry appliances.

over_clox ,

OP mentioned microwave ovens in the comment that you responded with “I hate to break it to you…”, so yeah guess you missed something there.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

i guess you missed the part when i said “i wasn’t referring to old appliances,” because you’re only talking about old microwaves.

and since you’re clearly just here to troll and argue. i’m blocking you.

bye.

BearOfaTime ,

Get commercial washer and dryer, Speed Queen, on the used market.

A used model will cost as much as a new Samsung consumer model, but it’ll last far longer and has replaceable hardware inside.

cheesymoonshadow OP ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

We literally just today unwrapped a new Whirlpool washer. I’ll keep that in mind next time though.

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

it will also tear your clothes apart while using 3x the water and power as a newer model LG or GE without an agitator

no thanks!

Hugh_Jeggs ,

Note for those reading -

This doesn’t apply in Europe, or large swathes of the planet. Samsung appliances are excellent.

The US has virtually nonexistent consumer protection laws, so companies will get away with selling poor quality, because they can.

See the Hyundai scandal. Only happened in one country, because it could

Breathe easy, EU folks

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

Really? How can a company make terrible appliances for a single country? They’re not made domestically.

Slippery_Snake874 ,

Same factory just send the units that normally wouldn’t be sellable (defects and such) but still function to the US

EleventhHour ,
@EleventhHour@lemmy.world avatar

The massive volume of sales for North America is too big to be met by factory defects. They’d have to have entire factories making defects.

Deadrek ,

It only works if that one country is the good ol’ US of A. Lol

tomalley8342 ,

Just because all defect stock are routed to the US inventory, doesn’t mean that US inventory is made up of all defect stock.

EleventhHour ,
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as someone who deals with this professionally, i assure you: they are.

every samsung appliance consistently fails in one of a few ways, so much so that it’s not simply a matter of by-chance defects. they’re design flaws.

scytale ,

Less regulations means more shortcuts. Another example is Hyundai/Kia. Why do the Kiaboyz exist only in the US when Kias are sold all over the world? Because it’s only in the US where they sold cars without immobilizers because they weren’t required to.

Reverendender ,

I never even considered this and now I am enraged.

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