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Google search doesn't provide real world experience with at product. You could buy a car with a google search, but I bet you would prefer to talk to someone you trust about their experience with the vehicle you're looking at.
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Well, have you found anyone with real world experience, here at the lounge on mass text bombing? And if so, did that experience help you make mission critical, command decisions on this topic? Just curious is all...
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In a Union shop?! You're going to eliminate someone's job!
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A manager's, lol. Just kidding. No jobs will be lost in this
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milo-xml wrote: I like receiving a text when I schedule a haircut confirming the time of the appointment Usually it is confirmed when you make the appointment. Why would you wait for a text to confirm it?
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I have a huge distrust of people doing things right (including me). The text message shows that they've entered everything in correctly, plus I get the appointment reminder the day before via text too. Being absentminded as I am, this is a godsend for me.
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Most smartphones have some form of calender with reminders. Not really a reason to share data with a salesman.
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I trust the pretty lady who cuts my hair How do you know they entered it into their calendar correctly? Have you ever shown up for an appointment and there was a mix up?
modified 5-Jan-17 8:08am.
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milo-xml wrote: I trust the pretty lady who cuts my hair I don't even trust my bank.
milo-xml wrote: How do you know they entered it into their calendar correctly? I don't care. If they make a mistake once, they lose a customer. Not my problem.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I don't even trust my bank.
As you shouldn't, lol Try a credit union
Eddy Vluggen wrote: I don't care. If they make a mistake once, they lose a customer. Not my problem.
I prefer not to waste my time. Get it right the first time. There's been times I've screwed it up, so it's a good check and balance. But if they still screw it up...
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Because people forget.
When I was working for Ocuco Ltd. one of the most requested modules was Recall, because opticians could remind patients of the appointments.
It happens all the bloody time.
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But I'll bet you'd be right p1ssed off if the Christmas party went by without your knowing about it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That would be the least of all problems. If you only had an idea how I spent the holidays...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The word "service" implies something useful that people want...
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Isn't that a matter of perspective? Who wants this service? The sender or the receivers?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Even worse, laying them all off and closing the business.
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I'm with CDP on this. Try an experiment. Record a message on your phone, call 100 employees, and play it back to them. Keep a record of how many listen to the whole thing, compared to slam the phone down, swear at you, or physically try to kill you.
Then using that data, put your feet up for a few months and relax then tell you boss it's done. Since noone in their right mind will sign up for it, you shouldn't get found out...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I can understand that. That's why we would give the employee the option to have a text sent to them. I don't know how other people are, but texts aren't as annoying as phone calls and I do sleep through my text alerts anyway.
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So do it all by email. It's free (which texts mostly aren't) and the subscriber can always set a rule to bin them unread or feed them to a particular folder.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'd like that but we have an older workforce and I'd bet about 50 to 60 percent of them don't have email on their phone. (the manager sitting next to me has a flip phone ) Plus, I don't know how you are about your personal email, but mine gets ignored until I have time to read it. Some of these messages will be urgent as in like, don't show up for work today kind of thing.
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Some of these messages will be urgent as in like, don't show up for work today kind of thing.
In that case, I would think that a proper phone call was important, in order to be sure the message was received.
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Good Point! Mostly this is going to be used as a overtime notification to show that we did our due diligence.
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Oddly, most USA plans anymore have free text messaging while data (which would include email) is metered. I think texts are great; very easy to ignore. Agree with those who point out automated phone calls are INCREDIBLY annoying.
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