And yet I’ve dealt with $15 (and I believe less) chargebacks on more than on occasion. Chargebacks that Stripe charges me $15 even if I win the dispute.
The banks don’t seem to care one bit about and evidence you do provide anyway, I just imagine their dispute system is just “sleep(10 days); return DENIED;”
Not sure if you are implying that by adding tipping you will get the employees to be more personable/pleasant. If you are:
I can assure that is not the case. I would love to know what the secret is to getting people to show an ounce of enthusiasm. A family member has a bakery and getting the front of house to engage with the customer at all is like pulling teeth, and this is an above-minimum-wage job with tips. They aren't on "commission" (it's been tried) but their tips are directly influenced by the ticket price (obviously).
This isn't really true, most people do want pleasant and welcoming interactions. That doesn't mean jumping through hoops, just little things like saying hi and smiling.
The opposite - silence and stares - is uncanny, and has gotten much more common in the past 10 years. Everyone notices, and it brings down the vibe.
That doesn't mean forcing your workers to do X Y Z. What it means, IMO, is hiring workers who are pleasant. That would require a pay raise though, because you can't be picky at 10 bucks an hour.
The secret is paying them more (sometimes via tips) and firing them easily. This only works if you're very successful, of course. High end restaurants don't have this problem because the number of waiters wanting tips on $500 bills is very high, and the poor performers get the boot immediately.
I used to work for a company that did "Electronic Monitoring", the nice name for monitoring people with ankle bracelets. One thing that never ceased to amaze me is how almost everyone I talked to about it or showed the device (I wore one occasionally for testing purposes) assumed or asked there was a way to shock the person wearing it.
I guess on the face of it that's not a crazy thing to think but I was always struck by how "normal" people seemed to think that would be. Maybe it's TV/Movies that have done something like that and make people think it's a real thing but more importantly (disgustingly?) that it's perfectly reasonable.
I once worked for a company that had a bad habit of not announcing employee departures (for both firing or quitting). At one point they let the VP of sales go and told practically no one. It came out that he was no longer with the company in an All Company meeting, not even on purpose. Someone asked “Where is X?” and the CEO was like “they are no longer with the company”.
After that I lobbied, successfully but not easily, to have them send out an email that just said “X is no longer with the company” regardless of how/why they left.
The “winning” argument was that if that VP had emailed me (or probably any of the developers) and asked for an export of data (our client list, stats, etc) we would have sent it to him. Probably even with him reaching out from a personal email address or via sms. What IC is going to tell a VP to “follow procedure”? Same deal with if he had followed me to the keycard door and told me he forgot his key card. No one is going to thank the IC who tells the VP they can’t let them in.
I get a lot of value from 1Password but the software quality has fallen.
There was a period of time that 1P would constantly grab window focus on macOS, they must have finally fixed it because after months of it randomly happening I don't think it's happened for at least 4 months. Then there is stuff like adding a new item, the search "Try searching anything", well, at least as long as "Anything" is not the _type_ of new item you want to create...
If I search "API" because I want to create an API key entry it shows be a bunch of worthless suggestions of websites (why would that be useful?) and at the bottom just injects my search term into the name of the 3 top "types" of item you can make. I have to expand it and scroll down to find API Credential. This is maddening to me. In part because of the mocking "Try searching anything", which is just clearly BS, and in part because I find the website search 100% useless and the only thing I care to search on is the types of new 1Password item I might create.
These articles are a complete waste of time. They cherry-pick examples from a literal handful of people and declare "Old thing is new again!" and people upvote it here like it's at all based in reality.
This is just like the "Teens are starting to use flip phones" or "Teens are starting to use paper maps" BS stories we've also seen on HN.
It's the laziest form of "journalism", it's just clickbait trash. A handful of people is not a trend. Please stop upvoting this nonsense.
There's an abundance of young people looking to get away from apps, smartphones and being constantly online. Sure landlines are not making a huge comeback, but these young people are looking for alternatives. You hear some revival attempts for old tech because it's focused on doing one thing like making a call or playing music while not taking over your attention and time. People want to stop doomscrolling. Meta, Apple and other huge corpos are betting on wearables and are already using marketing that emphasizes unobtrusive tech. We'll see what happens.
> There's an abundance of young people looking to get away from apps, smartphones and being constantly online.
Press X to doubt.
I believe that people are, slowly, waking up to the dangers of all these things but I don't believe for a second there is an "abundance" of young (or old) people who feel that way. I wish that was the case, but it's clearly not. And I'd love to see more articles about that but on-off or small groups of people throwing the baby out with the bathwater aren't helpful IMHO.
I am in favor of not allowing students to use phones in school, of banning social media for young people (though age verification is a can of worms), etc. I just think articles about "Landlines are ringing in homes again" are silly, not based in reality, and a waste of all our time.
I can’t see, or I’m missing, the list of companies included but I couldn’t help but, snarkily, think “I guess you could leave Apple in that index” seeing how I don’t think their their valuation factors in “AI”, given their stumbles/failures thus far.
The banks don’t seem to care one bit about and evidence you do provide anyway, I just imagine their dispute system is just “sleep(10 days); return DENIED;”
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