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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Soren Iverson is great! He comes up with these unhinged app mockups all the the time

[–] [email protected] 141 points 3 days ago (2 children)

One of my favorites of his.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This recent one is great too 😄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I’d like this one haha.

[–] wise_pancake 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I’ve interviewed far too many pale where the interview went like this:

It says you worked on this huge project, how did it work?

Oh, I was on the team but I wasn’t really involved in [MAIN PART OF PROJECT].

Okay, well what did you work on then?

I was on the team. I coordinated with the team.

HR said I can’t abruptly end these interviewes anymore and there’s 50 minutes left on the clock. How did you get through the other screening emails again?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is why I can't seem to even get an interview. People just apply to any and all jobs using whatever cv/experience they have or don't have.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Can't really blame then when requirements have been artificially jacked up

[–] wise_pancake 14 points 3 days ago

Honestly I hate it.

I hate wasting my time interviewing these people. I hate that HR does such a shit job on the most basic of screening. I hate that every job gets 1000 shit ai generated resumes that are full of lies when there are good people out there struggling.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

hey man, it's not my fault i get stuck on test automation all the time

[–] wise_pancake 6 points 3 days ago

I don't care if your project was fancy or exciting, I just need to understand your technical contributions and skillset.

Starting off with lying on the resume is just a total non starter for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

“Well, I don’t interact directly with the customer. My assistant does that. Listen, I’m a people person, my job is important!”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

I laughed like a maniac when I saw this.

I am imagining someone bravely standing up and volunteering like something from Hunger Games.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would absolutely love this, I would never answer a call again and it would be completely justified.

"Sorry I didn't answer, I was just in the middle of an urgent task and didn't know how long you wanted the call to last"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Next iOS version: setting that forces calls to be automatically answered, and turns on the recipient's speakerphone at max volume

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

That's what we call a walkie-talkie.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Throws phone out the window

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Spammers would love this feature. they'll even pay for a subscription that makes your phone automatically pick up.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember landlines in the UK actually operating like this in the nineties. If you hung up, the line would stay open until the caller ended the call. It doesn't make any sense and I remember being surprised when it didn't happen when the caller was on a mobile phone.

Maybe our cable company's exchanges were misconfigured? I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen these days. You could never hang up on unsolicited sales calls for example.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

It happened with some analogue lines and particular phones. The line would stay active while a voltage was applied. Initially, the caller would provide it. It would then change to allow both to drop it. Some phones would keep the line high, hell or high water, basically jamming it open.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is there a preference that automatically end calls after 120 seconds?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Automatic driving-through-a-tunnel option. Perhaps also a spotty-connection option.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

"Hey Siri, set a 2 minute timer"

Answer call

Alarm goes off

Put phone into airplane mode

Problem solved

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I think there used to be an app to make fake background sounds in calls. Doubt it exists now due to higher security.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Slow your roll, Satan

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I expected an option that replaces Aunt Janet with an AI voice that summarizes each sentence. Gotta justify all this money on AI somehow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That AI is gonna be so cooked for multilingual conversations

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Easy fix, just have the AI summarize what happened in the last week for you so you don't confuse it with multiple languages. Now you don't have to talk and the other person doesn't have to listen!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Call center employees feel this pain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Omg yes. The "you can't hang up before the customer ~~dies~~ does" rule was painful. Some people really do call in to catch up with whatever friend picks up that day. I had one woman give me her entire medical history over the phone and I didn't know how to deal with that when starting off on the job.

(Funny autocorrection, leaving it in 😂)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Really? I'll start just muting and silencing telemarketers.

[–] HikingVet 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can't have a connected call if the power is off. Also terrible UI. If someone did this to me they would have a 10 hr phone call of whatever I was doing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"You cannot turn off this phone while a call is active."

  • places phone in microwave. (Faraday Cage)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Connection restored… reconnecting previous call”

[–] HikingVet 1 points 2 days ago

Well, they will learn the term forced education.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's a 10 hour toilet visit, right there. No mute.