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Yeah there's a lot of replies here missing the subscription fee part, aren't there? Why do you have to subscribe to a CCTV camera?

The shop I went to every lunchtime had to do that, I could see on the screen they were ringing it through as a 'sale' even if you didn't take it. So the circulation figures are even lower than they report, it's crooked AF.

I asked someone that exact question and their response was "I don't hate it, I hate what it has become". But also bear in mind this was about twenty years ago, so it's just the same old bullshit.

The machine is quite noisy so people do use earplugs as well.

Sounds like you're writing on Linkedin.

Yeah, a lot of those mistakes don't even need a formal NDA to cover them up, just implicit threats about the consequences of discussing certain things. Like 'why did do-and-so leave suddenly?' - oh it's just one of those things we don't talk about.

A well-engineered solution wouldn't require any 'boilerplate code'.

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A good engineer would have worked out how to automate the 'donkey work' years ago.

Just assume they are, it's called being polite.

Even worse is when someone is speaking to you in person then interrupts the conversation to answer the phone, like the cunt on the other end of the line is more important than the person right there in front of you.

Food in Wetherspoons ain't so cheap any more.

Someone at my work left under a cloud, put a scathing review of the department and company on Glassdoor and ultimately ended up dropping out of the industry entirely. I sometimes wonder if it was my shitty gift that pushed them over the edge.

Love are country, but don't want to walk around it too much.

Thank goodness we imported the potato.

A classic of the "why won't you vermin piece of shit people take me seriously?" genre.

How do you eat a conker anyway? They're famously quite tough.

Yup, just a middle-class very-real-concerns version of the old missing cats story.

Interesting how many of the replies here are basically "NO, we live in the best possible world and nothing along the way could have been done differently". So tempting to post the 'guy popping up from the well' meme.

Probably closer to a scrum half, if you can call someone who's never touched a ball and isn't about to start now but is standing around saying some vaguely encouraging words that.

A hectoring Sea Lion from the Wondermark comic strip

Oh but you can make a case for your utterly pointless Raspberry Pi project which has now cost you more than a decent laptop.

I'm not really a car expert, but did anyone actually Consumer Demand a car that looks like a massive Tonka Toy / Transformer cross, or is it another one of those things we've just been lumbered with because it's convenient for the industry?

HR will be speaking to you presently.

No, not things like that.

A worrying number of data jobs I've seen advertised or spoken to people about are all about getting hold of some non-identifiable data and finding a way to join it with identifiable data - and GDPR be damned.

I do wonder if the LO advocates have ever had a job that involves *using* software to do something their boss has tasked them with, as opposed to just installing it and checking it runs.

Amstrad was still selling the things in 1990 so - someone, presumably.

Calm down mate, it's not going to shag you.