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Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1196538726257692682?s=21

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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Definitely a step up from last year’s “I Love Meth: Living Large, and Taking Charge”

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

here's the thing though: other directions didn't start being bad until our direction insisted it was the only, nay, the One Direction.

Bullshit.

Nitrox
Jul 5, 2002
Looks like they're trying to advertise meth to boomer generation. Amazing

Acute Grill
Dec 9, 2011

Chomp

Tall Tale Teller posted:

Elf on the shelf is teaching kids to be okay with a surveillance state in the same way that Paw Patrol is babies first indoctrination to fascism.

I’m raising my kids right. No naps, no masters.

Maybe it's just my busted rear end brain but if Elf on the Shelf was a thing when I was a kid, I'd have almost certainly interpreted it as being allowed to commit infinite crimes as long as they were in a different room than the immobile snitch.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Nitrox posted:

Looks like they're trying to advertise meth to boomer generation. Amazing

Stealth millennial psyop?

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
Got Meth?

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

I made a key at your kiosk like three weeks ago; I don't need a dinnertime email asking me about "my experience." What in the world are you expecting anyone to say about putting a key into a slot and standing still while waiting for a duplicate.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

Why did you even give them an email?

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Detective No. 27 posted:

Why did you even give them an email?

I don't even remember. It was one of those "aw, hell, I need a key now" things and I just wanted to be done with it.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Also, is emailing people at dinner time/other non business hours now considered rude? A friend of mine was complaining that a small business support person he wrote to at 3am for something got extremely pissed at him.

Are we just assuming that everyone has their phone sending loud shrieking email notifications to people no matter what time?

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Last Chance posted:

Also, is emailing people at dinner time/other non business hours now considered rude? A friend of mine was complaining that a small business support person he wrote to at 3am for something got extremely pissed at him.

Are we just assuming that everyone has their phone sending loud shrieking email notifications to people no matter what time?

Lol if you didn't set your email alerts to silent

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

Pastry of the Year posted:

I don't even remember. It was one of those "aw, hell, I need a key now" things and I just wanted to be done with it.

Sometimes they'll be all like NO YOU HAVE TO FILL THIS IN THIS IS REQUIRED WE TOTALLY NEED YOUR E-MAIL FOR THESE THINGS.

I've started putting in "no@no.com"

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


ToxicSlurpee posted:

Sometimes they'll be all like NO YOU HAVE TO FILL THIS IN THIS IS REQUIRED WE TOTALLY NEED YOUR E-MAIL FOR THESE THINGS.

I've started putting in "no@no.com"

I have to fill out some routing form about once a week to send BASF freight. And the company they route through decided to add a field for "person requesting PO" about 6 months ago. I've never been given that email from my customer despite asking so for 6 months I've been filling that field in as not@given.com. I haven't been yelled at yet so it must be fine :shrug:

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Last Chance posted:

Also, is emailing people at dinner time/other non business hours now considered rude? A friend of mine was complaining that a small business support person he wrote to at 3am for something got extremely pissed at him.

Are we just assuming that everyone has their phone sending loud shrieking email notifications to people no matter what time?

My phone isn't on "do not disturb" until 10 PM. If I hear an email notification, I don't know if it's from my brother or, alternatively, from Kroger telling me they have fourteen new ways to appreciate French bread pizza this holiday season.

ANYWAY I've clearly been a bit of a dumbass and will adjust accordingly; thanks, thread!

Moon Slayer
Jun 19, 2007

I mentioned at work once that I put my phone in airplane mode when I go to sleep and my boomer coworkers freaked the gently caress out. "What if a family member gets sick!?" Well what the gently caress am I going to do about it that I can't still do in the morning, Brenda?

ToxicFrog
Apr 26, 2008


Pastry of the Year posted:

My phone isn't on "do not disturb" until 10 PM. If I hear an email notification, I don't know if it's from my brother or, alternatively, from Kroger telling me they have fourteen new ways to appreciate French bread pizza this holiday season.

ANYWAY I've clearly been a bit of a dumbass and will adjust accordingly; thanks, thread!

I get so much email (from work and various automated newsletters and mailing lists and whatnot) that if I had email notifications turned on my phone would never shut up. Email gets silenced, if someone needs to contact me urgently they can IM me. And if it's late in the day that's silenced too. The only things that get through after bedtime are pages (if I'm on-call) and voice calls from close family members (which basically none of use unprompted except in emergencies).

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


Do not disturb on iPhones has a setting where you can allow calls from numbers you’ve labelled as favourites to still come through while on do not disturb hours. There’s also a setting you can switch on where a second call from the same person within 3 minutes of the first will be allowed through.
That helps solve the problem of missing emergency calls from family and friends.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Yeah I only allow Favorites through to notifications when DND is on, that seems the most sensible

Soysaucebeast
Mar 4, 2008




Helith posted:

Do not disturb on iPhones has a setting where you can allow calls from numbers you’ve labelled as favourites to still come through while on do not disturb hours. There’s also a setting you can switch on where a second call from the same person within 3 minutes of the first will be allowed through.
That helps solve the problem of missing emergency calls from family and friends.

It's the same thing for Android phones too. Basically the only time my phone isn't on Do Not Disturb are days I'm off, before 11pm. I have a few select people marked as able to bypass that, but I had to remove my mom from that list. She loves calling me just to chat at 2am. I figure if there's an emergency she'll call twice and auto bypass it.

Shut up Meg
Jan 8, 2019

You're safe here.
gently caress even that : my work phone is turned off the moment I leave the office and not turned on until I've had my morning coffee at my desk.


Getting a second, personal phone was probably the best investment in mental health I've ever made.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007


So what they're trying to do here is make meth not seem 'cool'? Like how marijuana is a 'dad drug' these days and not what hip people want to be seen with?

Shut up Meg
Jan 8, 2019

You're safe here.

The Lone Badger posted:

So what they're trying to do here is make meth not seem 'cool'? Like how marijuana is a 'dad drug' these days and not what hip people want to be seen with?

They're trying to drive traffic to their website that explains how they are tackling the problem of meth.

and as this is about the 5th time I have seen their campaign on various sites and I don't even live in the States, they are doing pretty well.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Not the first time South Dakota had a weirdly-worded campaign.



This is about jerking your steering wheel when on an icy road, by the way.

Shit Fuckasaurus
Oct 14, 2005

i think right angles might be an abomination against nature you guys
Lipstick Apathy

Last Chance posted:

Also, is emailing people at dinner time/other non business hours now considered rude? A friend of mine was complaining that a small business support person he wrote to at 3am for something got extremely pissed at him.

Are we just assuming that everyone has their phone sending loud shrieking email notifications to people no matter what time?

Support people are often put in a rough situation with regard to metrics. I manage social media for a small financial services company, and we're trying to get Facebook to show our Message Response Time on our page, because the CEO wants that for all of the branches. The only problem is that Facebook is only willing to show it if our average response time is under an hour, and Financial Services aren't the sort of thing that you get messaged about a lot so a 3am message that isn't responded to for 5 hours tanks those metrics for about a month.

I was able to convince my branch manager not to care by explaining that, but the CEO is pretty personally invested in it. If my boss were more of a bootlicker I could see him requiring the CSRs to respond to those things in the middle of the night, or worse, me, and if that happened yeah I'd be pretty upset with any 3am customer messages.

It sucks but that's how it is for people at the bottom a lot of the time.

Nitrox
Jul 5, 2002
Sounds like really stupid problem to have. Auto send an immediate response, something like "We received your message. Our support specialist will respond to your inquiry as soon possible (during business hours). Your message is very important to us". And that's it. Problem solved

Fishstick
Jul 9, 2005

Does not require preheating
Aka literally every proper ticketing system

fisting by many
Dec 25, 2009



Nitrox posted:

Sounds like really stupid problem to have. Auto send an immediate response, something like "We received your message. Our support specialist will respond to your inquiry as soon possible (during business hours). Your message is very important to us". And that's it. Problem solved

I'm pretty sure you can set up a Messenger bot to do exactly that through Facebook itself and it will make your displayed response time "immediate".

Which makes that statistic completely useless, but makes CEOs happy!

Shit Fuckasaurus
Oct 14, 2005

i think right angles might be an abomination against nature you guys
Lipstick Apathy

fisting by many posted:

I'm pretty sure you can set up a Messenger bot to do exactly that through Facebook itself and it will make your displayed response time "immediate".

Which makes that statistic completely useless, but makes CEOs happy!

It's a very simple chatbot, and if they break out of your chatbot by saying something that It doesn't know how to respond to by, for example, misspelling a trigger word, your response time starts ticking again.

It helps my case of not giving a poo poo about metrics that one of my LOs would message our page on Facebook to say he wasn't coming in, or was stuck in traffic or whatever. Chatbot's trying to sell you a loving mortgage and has no idea what to tell you about I4 traffic duder. It can respond to one uncaught trigger, but if you do two in a row it gives up, because Facebook is a worthless pile of poo poo unless you're paying them a ton of money, at which point it upgrades to merely unintuitive and difficult to use.

My favorite part is getting a "we're sorry" popup after making changes, which means some or all of your changes may not have applied, and the only way to tell is to refresh and lose everything.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Plastik posted:

My favorite part is getting a "we're sorry" popup after making changes, which means some or all of your changes may not have applied, and the only way to tell is to refresh and lose everything.
I'm assuming it's web based? When I'm using similarly lovely program I check the settings in a new tab so worst case scenario I still have the original tab to copy-paste from.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

Maybe in a better world.

RabbitWizard
Oct 21, 2008

Muldoon

Last Chance posted:

Also, is emailing people at dinner time/other non business hours now considered rude?

http://www.emailsfromanasshole.dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=99

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
Nice marketing moves: Every 30 seconds (2880 times a day) this unique and stylish gold watch will flash "TIME TO gently caress"

Doggles
Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/engadget/status/1197752957250523136

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

calm down, Columbus.

Acute Grill
Dec 9, 2011

Chomp

The fictional watch company from GTAV does have terrible ads.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

Last Chance posted:

Are we just assuming that everyone has their phone sending loud shrieking email notifications to people no matter what time?
A lot of people either don't understand that you can turn certain notifications off and/or use Do Not Disturb, or refuse to because what if it takes me more than 30 seconds to respond to something urgent??

Meanwhile I have my notifications pruned to a minimum because I don't need my phone bleeping at me every 3 minutes all day long.

The MSJ posted:

Not the first time South Dakota had a weirdly-worded campaign.



This is about jerking your steering wheel when on an icy road, by the way.
No Nut November looking good.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Haifisch posted:

A lot of people either don't understand that you can turn certain notifications off and/or use Do Not Disturb, or refuse to because what if it takes me more than 30 seconds to respond to something urgent??

Meanwhile I have my notifications pruned to a minimum because I don't need my phone bleeping at me every 3 minutes all day long.

No Nut November looking good.

I have friends who leave their phone on DND all day because "i don't like all the notifications" but they won't trim them because "i read all of those notifications"

I don't get it

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Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

Len posted:

I have friends who leave their phone on DND all day because "i don't like all the notifications" but they won't trim them because "i read all of those notifications"

I don't get it

Mine’s on DND all day unless I’m expecting a call.

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