The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

Not sure where this goes but this will do:

TikTok video of woman getting fired by CloudFlare.

(right-click, open in incognito if you are worried about TikTok cookies)

TL;DW: some director she’d never met launches into it by saying you aren’t meeting CloudFlare’s expectations for performance so we are letting you go. Chick being fired cuts him off right there and tells him how she’s exceed expectations based on blah, blah, blah. Director dude backs off immediately saying, you aren’t being singled out etc.

I think it’s a pretty shitty way to terminate someone (blaming their performance), if they are just shit-canning everyone or a bunch of people. I’d take that message that my performance wasn’t good enough to heart and, when I was younger, maybe beat myself up over it for some time afterwards. It would have sapped my confidence going in to job interviews for a replacement job.

Jam

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I like Amex actually. I don’t really need the card I have but keep it because I have not had problems with them like I have with other cards. My citibank card was the fucking worst.

Amex is pleasant to use while traveling as they are travel-friendly. Citi is not far behind.

Citicard does quite a few more fraud checks than does Amex, and this can be a pia at times. They’ve both caught fraud as well so perhaps the process is justified in the end.

It’s a bit annoying when they hard-sell it as the program exists to protect me. I give it right back politely because the schlub doing the 'splaining is likely underpaid and not at fault. “If Citi pays out on fraud, Citi takes the hit. Perhaps fees may go up in the long run, but what you are really doing is protecting Citi at the expense and inconvenience of the client. Now please play this back for your supervisor. Thank you and have a great day.”

Tazz

Jam

Seldom do we check out any of the 127,000 pages past the first.

Tazz

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Seldom do we check out any of the 127,000 pages past the first.

Which might sound strange because when I research a product review I always go to the one star ratings first to find out potential problems. Five stars reviews usually include statements like “I liked it so much I bought one for my wife!!” when they’re reviewing chainsaw.

Google has been known to push stories down a few pages.

Gators1

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I like Amex actually. I don’t really need the card I have but keep it because I have not had problems with them like I have with other cards. My citibank card was the fucking worst.

Amex is pleasant to use while traveling as they are travel-friendly. Citi is not far behind.

Citicard does quite a few more fraud checks than does Amex, and this can be a pia at times. They’ve both caught fraud as well so perhaps the process is justified in the end.

It’s a bit annoying when they hard-sell it as the program exists to protect me. I give it right back politely because the schlub doing the 'splaining is likely underpaid and not at fault. “If Citi pays out on fraud, Citi takes the hit. Perhaps fees may go up in the long run, but what you are really doing is protecting Citi at the expense and inconvenience of the client. Now please play this back for your supervisor. Thank you and have a great day.”

Citi wanted me to pre approve all my transactions at best buy and over a certain amount in Puerto Rico and would reject the transaction if I didn’t. I both had my card with them and banked with them. Never again.

Tazz

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I like Amex actually. I don’t really need the card I have but keep it because I have not had problems with them like I have with other cards. My citibank card was the fucking worst.

Amex is pleasant to use while traveling as they are travel-friendly. Citi is not far behind.

Citicard does quite a few more fraud checks than does Amex, and this can be a pia at times. They’ve both caught fraud as well so perhaps the process is justified in the end.

It’s a bit annoying when they hard-sell it as the program exists to protect me. I give it right back politely because the schlub doing the 'splaining is likely underpaid and not at fault. “If Citi pays out on fraud, Citi takes the hit. Perhaps fees may go up in the long run, but what you are really doing is protecting Citi at the expense and inconvenience of the client. Now please play this back for your supervisor. Thank you and have a great day.”

Citi wanted me to pre approve all my transactions at best buy and over a certain amount in Puerto Rico and would reject the transaction if I didn’t. I both had my card with them and banked with them. Never again.

CITI Knows more about Puerto Rico than you do. Ha. And anyone who steals a credit card heads straight to Best Buy.

tigger

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I like Amex actually. I don’t really need the card I have but keep it because I have not had problems with them like I have with other cards. My citibank card was the fucking worst.

Amex is pleasant to use while traveling as they are travel-friendly. Citi is not far behind.

Citicard does quite a few more fraud checks than does Amex, and this can be a pia at times. They’ve both caught fraud as well so perhaps the process is justified in the end.

It’s a bit annoying when they hard-sell it as the program exists to protect me. I give it right back politely because the schlub doing the 'splaining is likely underpaid and not at fault. “If Citi pays out on fraud, Citi takes the hit. Perhaps fees may go up in the long run, but what you are really doing is protecting Citi at the expense and inconvenience of the client. Now please play this back for your supervisor. Thank you and have a great day.”

Citi wanted me to pre approve all my transactions at best buy and over a certain amount in Puerto Rico and would reject the transaction if I didn’t. I both had my card with them and banked with them. Never again.

CITI Knows more about Puerto Rico than you do. Ha. And anyone who steals a credit card heads straight to Best Buy.

Actually, walgreens in my experience.

Pakoon

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Seldom do we check out any of the 127,000 pages past the first.

Which might sound strange because when I research a product review I always go to the one star ratings first to find out potential problems. Five stars reviews usually include statements like “I liked it so much I bought one for my wife!!” when they’re reviewing chainsaw.

Google has been known to push stories down a few pages.

Try Marginalia search engine some time.

Jam

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I like Amex actually. I don’t really need the card I have but keep it because I have not had problems with them like I have with other cards. My citibank card was the fucking worst.

Amex is pleasant to use while traveling as they are travel-friendly. Citi is not far behind.

Citicard does quite a few more fraud checks than does Amex, and this can be a pia at times. They’ve both caught fraud as well so perhaps the process is justified in the end.

It’s a bit annoying when they hard-sell it as the program exists to protect me. I give it right back politely because the schlub doing the 'splaining is likely underpaid and not at fault. “If Citi pays out on fraud, Citi takes the hit. Perhaps fees may go up in the long run, but what you are really doing is protecting Citi at the expense and inconvenience of the client. Now please play this back for your supervisor. Thank you and have a great day.”

Citi wanted me to pre approve all my transactions at best buy and over a certain amount in Puerto Rico and would reject the transaction if I didn’t. I both had my card with them and banked with them. Never again.

I wonder whether you were a victim of brown-skin “brown-lining”?

I have had a run-in with them over their KYC policies & practices and I filed complaints with the NYS-DFS and the Federal CPB. I “gave both barrels” to their “Executive Response Unit” based in Texas and they now know my name down there.

I’ve banked with Citi since about 1980, so I’m working with the devil I know rather than with the devil I have not gotten to know yet - Chase. I like my loan officer and my financial guy, but the Citicard operation in Sioux Falls functions on it’s own . . . and pretty much sucks.

Jam

I could tell a story about how the KYC program works at Citi that would amuse at least two people in here. ;-)

Pakoon

PM your credit card details and I’ll fix all your problems.

Tazz

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

PM your credit card details and I’ll fix all your problems.

This should be a group effort to help a brutha out.

Kilemall

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I could tell a story about how the KYC program works at Citi that would amuse at least two people in here. ;-)

Don’t tease, please.

Jam

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I could tell a story about how the KYC program works at Citi that would amuse at least two people in here. ;-)

Don’t tease, please.

Just one more expression of sincere interest and I’ll tell the story!

Gators1

I have contacts at your credit card company and/or bank. Give me the details as well.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/companies-hard-line-stance-on-returning-to-the-office-is-backfiring/ar-BB1hH0pZ

It’s a stark shift from the company’s pre-pandemic approach, which allowed a sizable portion of SAP’s workforce to be remote.

So, before anyone had even imagined the pandemic, many SAP employees could work fully remote but, now, because it’s fashionable for CEOs to hate on WFH they’ve got to go into the office 3 days a week. Fuck these uninspired clowns running big companies.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/companies-hard-line-stance-on-returning-to-the-office-is-backfiring/ar-BB1hH0pZ

It’s a stark shift from the company’s pre-pandemic approach, which allowed a sizable portion of SAP’s workforce to be remote.

So, before anyone had even imagined the pandemic, many SAP employees could work fully remote but, now, because it’s fashionable for CEOs to hate on WFH they’ve got to go into the office 3 days a week. Fuck these uninspired clowns running big companies.

We were already WFH most days due to a DR initiative to give everyone laptops and remove the office as a failure point of losing admin control of apps and systems. I wish we would still meet once a week as working face to face in a concentrated time is like getting two days in one, but no one else is biting.

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

as working face to face in a concentrated time is like getting two days in one

You’ve said something similar before. I don’t agree but not in the way that means I think you’re wrong. Maybe my experience has been different. Or I’ve been WFH for so long I can’t even remember what it’s like to be able to do that face to face stuff. I find Teams, screen and document sharing etc to be a pretty effective way to collaborate.