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[–] 88 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

Caught a CT ad before the game last night. It had a completely unrealistic number of employees in a store. That's how I knew it was false advertising.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    There's always more than one but the others are busy chasing clients to put them into debt without their knowledge.

    That's how I got one of their outrageously high interest MasterCard. They approach clients in the aisle, ask if they would like to save on their purchases, then ask a few personal questions, and and tell you that you're approved!

    The moment you realize they are making a credit card request on your behalf, it's already too late. They told me I could just cancel the card afterwards.

    I really despise how they are trying very hard to put their clients into debt.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Lmfao they have less than one employee per department, there generally aren't more than 6 employees, including management, in their massive store.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah them prics is there. They just gotten so good at hiding in plain sight that you never see them. It's actually quite the feat to stock the shelves and not be seen at the same time. Plus you got the credit card hounds chasing you around the store. So it goes two ways. Is that an employee or is that the weeping mastercard angel? Better stay away. Or if you make eye contact with them, you moving too damn fast trough the isles to ask for help if you even do see someone.

    Now home hardware, on the other hand, is like playing minesweeper where every damn tile is a mine. You can't walk a meter in any direction with out someone dead stare into your eyes asking if you need any help? You beter know what fuck you came in here for son. Half the time, the panic sets in and now you buying shit you don't need like door mats or fuses when you came in for a damn Robertson bit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh my god fuck the credit card hounds, they just keep creeping that fucking desk closer and closer to the entrance, now it's literally next to the gate with a plexiglass in front of them.

    They used to send me into panic attacks, and I've gotten into verbal altercations with them in the past because they're selling predatory financial services to vulnerable people with no financial literacy, now I just recite "no thanks, I'm just here to shop" if I can't ignore them and it seems to work, but fucking hell, that alone made me switch from Canadian Tire to Rona for most of my needs.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Hey, at least they man the customer service desk.

    Can't say the same about my local Sobeys. Their bathrooms are locked and customer service has the key. The one time they had someone there was when I needed to deal with the bakery and that department was vacant.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Why do corporations imagine people will like this shit? Does anyone like this shit?

    P.S. If you're the one that likes it, go away.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    They don’t care if we like it. They care about reducing staff and cost

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    But they could do that without this:

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know things are cooked when even the mascot looks AI generated

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Just use our chatbot bro I promise it will get better, we simply need ten septillion gigabytes of your data to train it bro, it only hallucinates if you use it wrong, the amazon forest will just grow back over time, trust me bro

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    If I could actually trust that responses were well researched, correct and any answer it gives is honored I would love a lot LLM help desks. Give it a rough budget, what my needs are and such, and we can discuss pros and cons of each option. But arguably all AI's fail all three of those requirements and it's up to me to fact check.

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    Middle management blows their load over an employee that can't be sexually harassed and always tells you that you're right.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    It's asking me for nudes what do I do?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Its asking me to stop sending nudes what do I do?

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    I’ve hit the gym several times and it’s about to collapse… what do I do now?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Park your cat car next to it and call insurance

    Edit car*, not cat

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Show this to anyone not yet convinced we're in an AI bubble

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    This looks like literal corporate parody, like the Ficsit AI:

    Or crowboy TLJ Dreamfall Chapters:

    Or the 2077 vending machine, you know the one:

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Fuck this shit.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago

    A privacy policy is really a surveillance policy

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Time to get it into erotic RP

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    This is what happens when IT contracting companies sell their slop to upper management who has people deal with customer service for them.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago
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    One thing I recently learned: Canadian Tire stores are franchises. 🀯

    This doesn’t relate to AI directly but you can imagine a bunch of franchisees who know nothing about AI β€œwanting it”.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    Shoo, haunted red guitar pick!

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  • Tell me you don't want my business without telling me to fuck off.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That thing definitely has Badgey code in it

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Jumping on the bandwagon are they. I don't see a problem if they use AI to assist with customer service. Spares the employees using their brain cells.

    Hopefully the enshitification of CT isn't exorbitant.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The problem is when you need something specific from customer service. In other words most customer service calls.

    As someone who's worked in IT I understand a lot of people are really stupid. Putting them on the phone with a system that recommends eating a few rocks each day will not improve the situation. Though it's probably nice if the person feels like screaming at you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If "agent" gets you through to someone then all is good. When they make that impossible is the real issue.

    I was tracking a package that for some reason went from BC to Ontario when I'm in Alberta, so I wanted to ask why but when I tried to connect to AJ agent the damn page fully reloaded and took me back to the beginning of starting a chat. You could never reach an agent, likely by design

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't see a problem if they use AI to assist with customer service. Spares the employees using their brain cells.

    Except we both know the corporate bean counters will use AI as an excuse to reduce the number of employees to as close to zero as they think they can get away with.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The best part is, this is so lazy the mascot is AI generated. 4 fingers vs 3 fingers. Looool, no one bothered to clean it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cartoons are usually 3 fingers.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Putting the CTE in Canadian Tire Experience.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Hahaha omg wtt

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    Canadian Tire?

    Why am I not surprised.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Crappy tire at it again.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Why do you have a gun?"

    "Don't worry, it's only for your protection."

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Make it say something horrible and submit it to a local news outlet. They will probably shut it down right quick.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Nope. No. Uh-uh. Nope. No. HELL no.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Shoo, you red guitar pick’s Clippy reincarnation

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