Stumblinbear @ Stumblinbear @pawb.social

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Without question

The first all hands meeting (within three days of being hired) I had at my new job was the CEO talking about legal allegations and indicating he's going to be much less involved in the day-to-day. Apparently he was pretty well known for being a massive dick and berating employees.

On the bright side, I've not had to deal with him once! In the last year-plus I've seen him comment on two tickets regarding bugs, but that's about it. We've not had a single all-hands since then. I just started at an unlucky time, haha

I started saying emojis out loud. I don't even use emojis when typing

A quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag busting it down sexual style is not necessarily goated with the sauce

Yeah, why do we allow changing the names in their birth certificate? That's weird, too.

I already addressed that and I'm not going to go in circles with you

You can... look at the disk?

Besides, who cares if the car looks fresh? The doors were opened, and gasp taken for a test drive! So therefore it's no longer new!

All I'm saying is technically speaking "new" doesn't mean "absolutely an unequivocally untouched." It just means it hasn't been sold or used by anyone else. Open box isn't "used," it's "open box" and effectively new, and can generally be treated as such. You're free to be skeptical, though, as would I

Go try selling an open copy of a game on eBay or Craigslist as “new”. You won’t get people paying “new” prices for it.

Yeah big difference between some random seller and an actual company that can get the book thrown at them for being shady. New requires closed box for p2p sales because you can't trust anyone at all. If I could somehow definitively prove that I've not actually played a game and the only thing removed was the plastic covering then, yeah, I could easily sell it as new.

GameStop wouldn't take it back because they can't take your word for it, where they themselves know that it's effectively "new" even if it's open box for display reasons. Consumers can somewhat reasonably assume that they aren't selling you a used product as new due to potential false advertising claims.

An item that is open but never used is still new. A new car that has yet to be sold to anyone but that has been on numerous test drives is still new.

That wouldn't be used, that would be open box which is very different. GameStop doesn't trust consumers when they say something is new, but realistically if they're selling a "used* item as new then that's false advertising and they'd get in huge trouble. They're selling an open box item as new, which is fine, because it is unused.

A new car that has yet to be sold to anyone but that has also been on numerous test drives is still a new car.

We have very different definitions of used

When working in teams, merging in two pull requests with seemingly unrelated changes is common practice. If I had to rebase and re-run tests every time another PR got merged in while mine was awaiting reviews, I'd spend most of my time running tests

You know it's not terribly difficult to save a couple hundred a month so long as you're not making minimum wage and budget for it

So you don't want to report a company for breaking the law? What have they ever done for you?

I used the official app but fuck reddit so I'm here

You know you could just report them yourself right

Oh man, guy saved 3k a year, so rich /s

It's ok, just do what my company does and write no tests at all!

He says as though he's never had two PR merges conflict logically with each other

If the alternative is 1/4 or 1/5 voting, then it is a "win." Every step in the right direction is a win.