Mercuri

I get what you're saying but the forgetful customer is explicitly what they said they want, which is dumb any way you look at it. Many times you're forced into signing up for subscription, or coerced under the guise of a free trial. Now this wouldn't be as bad if they came back and were like, "hey we see you haven't used our service in a while, do you still need it?" rather than just leeching money from the user. The system is designed to purposely allow the user to make these errors and that's wrong any way you want to shape it.

"If buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing."

I heard this before and it is becoming more true each day.

I worked at Amazon and the head of Ring said their best customers were people who bought a subscription and then put the camera in a drawer and forgot about it. They don't even want to provide you a service. They want you to absentmindedly give them money every month because you forgot to cancel.

You should. The next time you want to use it, it'll probably do some bullshit. Better to be rid of it now than be coerced into giving HP money in the future. If you need a printer, replace it with whatever Brother laser printer is on sale at the moment.

Fucking PHONES had more RAM. It was so fucking stupid. And despite their arguments, it was proven time and time again 8GB was not enough.

I think you're confusing Thunderbolt with the lightning cable. Hell, even basic USB-C is faster than lightning cable.

False. I was issued that mouse at a previous workplace and it pissed me off so much I brought in my own mouse. And my experience was that when the mouse was fully dead it needed to charge a long time to be usable again.

If it just simply let you use it while it was plugged in there'd be absolutely no issue. It's a dumb design.

The candidate said they were going to use Java. I asked them if perhaps they weren't coding in Python instead? They insisted it was Java. I forget the details but they proceeded to "fix" their code by doing some stuff that made absolutely no sense no matter what language they were using.

It's so fucking stupid. If you can sign up with a click, you should be able to cancel with a click. There's no justifiable argument against that other than corporate greed.

I do remember one of my most satisfying cancelation calls though. I just kept saying, "No." Just "no". No added explanation. No added reasoning. It frustrated the retention employee so much. They were like "but WHY?" They couldn't try to convince me not to quit since I didn't give them any reasons for why I didn't want it, just that I didn't want it.

At the time it was like watching a train wreck. This was much earlier in my career and I was like, "there's just no way, right?"

I did get lunch out of it.

lol. I kid you not, someone did that. Then completely imploded when I pointed out that it'd just print the object reference and not the list contents.

Can you start next Monday? :p

Dude, so much of your experience resonates with me! I was applying to a small start-up and they were like "oh, our new CEO is former Amazon so you'll be doing a half-dozen hour-long interviews over the course of a couple days." Wut? Other times the company would claim they don't care that most of my experience is in Java and then after final interviews they'll turn me down because most of my experience is in Java and they think it's not possible for someone to use a different programming language or something. And people who reach out to ME then ghost me.

Sadly I'm still trying to find a new role.