[–] 1 point 2 months ago

"seat's taken"

"there is no poo"

"to pee or not to pee"

Just any variety of bathroom humor is appropriate in this space. We all have our pants down, why feel shy or embarrassed that we need to relieve ourselves?

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    People get mad when they feel like they weren't ready for training, but to your point, that's why we train. To make you more aware when the real thing comes. Check all of your links. Verify it's real before just clicking through.

    The issue has come from some companies threatening jobs when people don't perform properly. I would love it if people saw this as just training and not a personal attack. You fell for the trick now how do you not get tricked next time? It might help if we did a quarterly report and put it on the intranet for people to see how many got clicked. Don't make it a Wall-of-Shame, but a report to see how good things have been going. Put out sample emails that were the trickiest and what were the tells. Make Security a thing that is a growth aspect, not a shaming tactic.

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  • [–] 243 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Oh man. This is brilliant for phishing training. Get through some armor. Don't let your biases get in the way. You can do a variation around this theme. One could be similar to above. Another is one that says you can opt-into this kind of thing by "Managing Preferences". You'll hit a large swath of people without them paying too much attention. I like this.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You see, I'm the guy who gives his opinion in those. The trick is to be actionable. Don't complain about things you can't give direct advice on how to correct. Be kind in how you communicate and give the benefit of the doubt in all of the language.

    Don't: Your management style is shit

    Do: It is difficult to complete my work with the lack of understanding on the business direction. I would like this communication to come from my direct manager.

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  • [–] 167 points 6 months ago (20 children)

    "Secret" just like those emails I get from HR asking my opinions about management that are completely anonymous, but don't forward this email or share the link with anyone else because it's just for me....

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  • [–] 143 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Can't put the laptop down because he's next to a pool to free up at least one hand.

    The best I can advise for him is to chew up the cigar and chase it down with the espresso martini. Then throw the laptop into the sea like a discus and get into the pool to wait for the authorities to charge him with littering.

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  • [–] 86 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    How much money would one presume 5 beers would that it would cover this many beers? Even if you're buying at a local convenience store or at your local alcohol store this would be around $50? Who walks up to a place, sees an order of what they assume is 5 beers for that price and thinks, "Yeah that's a fair price."

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    It doesn't always need to be useful. If the businesses are bought in, the students got the tools for free or were required to use them during their uni experience, and it's now listed as a requirement on job listings it's suddenly a need in society. That is already happening whether we like it or not.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This is how Microsoft has always done this adoption stuff. I'm surprised this is only coming out now. Probably has been happening to the larger institutions for much longer. They get the "next generation" hooked on free product that is part of the education system and then it's just part of what they do naturally.

    I was in college when .Net was just being rolled out and we all got free licenses to Visual Studio. Also had licenses for Adobe products and pretty much any other major player. Just had to ask the right IT person how to get a disc and license key. They only worked for 4-5 years before going dormant, but some of us kept in touch with internal staff and got it for several years after that as well.

    If you're in college, don't fall for the free taste. There's always a catch.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    It's carsinisation but for cars. Everything evolves into a type of SUV. It makes sense since physics kind of dictates how aerodynamics works and engineers just have to work around that.

    I'm looking forward to the day when we don't have rear-view mirrors and just use cameras. Kind of surprised we haven't just gone that direction already. Screens and camera tech has gotten good enough that we can do that pretty efficiently.

    The issue I have with some of the more "modern" cars is getting rid of the door handles on the outside. These pop-out things are just a hazard for people in colder climates or places where dust and other ingress can cause problems opening the door. Although, it would be nice to have my kids walk up to the door and not jerk on the handle 2-3 times before I can get the keys out to unlock it.

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