First Android considering an S22. I have some questions.
Never mind that. You're the first android doing a lot of things! You're posting on lemmy, you're asking for help, you're comparing quasi-tangibles between products and you've got free will and permission to follow it; this is a landmark moment!
Consider what you want, android person, and we welcome your questions about humanity and anything.
Having spent too much time in OS security, I wish people building today's products could realize and internalize just how their project is a house of cards built on top of a house of cards, security-speaking. We've normalized a seriously insane amount if sketchy shit that the critique of a modern product core to many linux OS distributions was seen as just old people ranting ... and the shady shit continued.
One day we're going to run into a series of deep-seated security exploits that will blow our mind and cause a chernobyl of damage, and we may not even link it to a particular weak link among SO MANY weak links; but that's what we're looking at. And the fact that we're ignoring common-sense, best-practice rules to develop core apps is leaving a hole in the proverbial fence that we're ignoring as well.
Jobs were scarce and this ghetto startup had openings, so I took something to perpetuate that eating thing.
I regretted it. I wasn't a mall cop, thank god, but I was there to pit-lamp hobos at one construction site and the next week moved up to patrol a pulp mill after-hours.
In those two weeks of skulking about I saw a lot of nature - mink and eagles and such - but I couldn't take the mediocrity and shady management; so when another opportunity came up I bolted.
I never yell at these people but I will often hang up on them after the first “sorry not interest” gets ignored.
Nah. Here's the rules:
don't yell so they have an excuse to hang up
ask them to repeat things, and parts of things, and more things, as some sweatshops have rules that say the customer must understand the pitch before they can be hooked legally.
never say yes
never hang up; let them
question everything
remember not to give out ANY personal information - not even confirming they have the number they think they dialed - until they can concretely prove whom they are. (This is a bailout for legit organizations that call you and accidentally sound like scam calls. They should immediately ask you to look up their 800 number and call a given extension within that publicly-advertised phone tree to somewhat confirm their identity)
now the game is on. Your goal is to rack up the minutes they spend on you. With enough players, it finally becomes a losing proposition to run a phone sales/scam organization; but it's gotta be a lot of people.
My record is 75 minutes with a 'Bell Atlantic' rep who was fluid with details and gave me an edge to contrast the data-points, and who finally hung up claiming she wanted to validate my information, Mr Thomas, to which I replied "Thomas, who the hell is that?" before the line went dead. I loved rocking out phrases like "well are you lying now or were you lying then?" I sometimes hope she took a different job the next day and hope she's seen success. My name isn't Thomas.
got yelled at a lot too, be nice to people who call they likely don’t want to call you any more than you want to receive the call
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I hate being mean or obtuse to callers using my phone to sell me things or defraud me too. I'll bet the humanity on the other end eventually caused you to change jobs too -- because the seediness was a known quantity at the start but being in the line of return fire was definitely the catalyst. This is the goal.
I love how, within 5 years, we've gone from calling it 'support', as in help, to 'supports', like trusses. This isn't what wrongly pluralizing 'email' got us, but it's the same mental defect. We'll be talking about 'the trafficks' next.
It's a way of saying "these are wrong and should be deprecated."