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[–] 89 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Soren Iverson is great! He comes up with these unhinged app mockups all the the time

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  • [–] 135 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    I’ve interviewed far too many pale where the interview went like this:

    It says you worked on this huge project, how did it work?

    Oh, I was on the team but I wasn’t really involved in [MAIN PART OF PROJECT].

    Okay, well what did you work on then?

    I was on the team. I coordinated with the team.

    HR said I can’t abruptly end these interviewes anymore and there’s 50 minutes left on the clock. How did you get through the other screening emails again?

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

    This is why I can't seem to even get an interview. People just apply to any and all jobs using whatever cv/experience they have or don't have.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Honestly I hate it.

    I hate wasting my time interviewing these people. I hate that HR does such a shit job on the most basic of screening. I hate that every job gets 1000 shit ai generated resumes that are full of lies when there are good people out there struggling.

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    [–] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I would absolutely love this, I would never answer a call again and it would be completely justified.

    "Sorry I didn't answer, I was just in the middle of an urgent task and didn't know how long you wanted the call to last"

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is there a preference that automatically end calls after 120 seconds?

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

    I remember landlines in the UK actually operating like this in the nineties. If you hung up, the line would stay open until the caller ended the call. It doesn't make any sense and I remember being surprised when it didn't happen when the caller was on a mobile phone.

    Maybe our cable company's exchanges were misconfigured? I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen these days. You could never hang up on unsolicited sales calls for example.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    It happened with some analogue lines and particular phones. The line would stay active while a voltage was applied. Initially, the caller would provide it. It would then change to allow both to drop it. Some phones would keep the line high, hell or high water, basically jamming it open.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Spammers would love this feature. they'll even pay for a subscription that makes your phone automatically pick up.

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

    I expected an option that replaces Aunt Janet with an AI voice that summarizes each sentence. Gotta justify all this money on AI somehow.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have this friend that talks in essays she got very pissed off when I pulled out my phone to provide a summary of what was said.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I would be too. People can talk how they want. They don’t need assholes pulling out their shit AI to get in the way of that. If you don’t like talking to them, just find new friends, but don’t insult them like that.

    I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and I’m assuming you know this person well and it was a joke, but a lot of people are starting to treat LLMs as their lazy way around real conversation.

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

    "You cannot turn off this phone while a call is active."

    • places phone in microwave. (Faraday Cage)
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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Call center employees feel this pain.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Omg yes. The "you can't hang up before the customer dies does" rule was painful. Some people really do call in to catch up with whatever friend picks up that day. I had one woman give me her entire medical history over the phone and I didn't know how to deal with that when starting off on the job.

    (Funny autocorrection, leaving it in 😂)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Slow your roll, Satan

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