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I spend at least 6 hours a week arguing with bots owned by other teams, as I’m unable to reach a human before I bypass their bot. 10k person company, clients ar

• RA_Fisher 3mo ago
  It may be that they’re protecting their time.
  • evenhash 3mo ago
    Right. Somewhere there’s a dashboard which lists those 6 hours as time saved.
  • soared 3mo ago
    They are, eng makes 600k/yr and I make 2, so their times is worth triple mine. It’s cost effective to make me toil and drown in frustration if it reduces ticket volume.
• sevenzero 3mo ago
  Corpo bullshittery is the best kind of work. Get paid without actually ever doing anything. Its heaven.
  • marcosdumay 3mo ago
    That's some odd image of heaven.
  • vovavili 3mo ago
    Being alienated from the outcome of your labor is far from my idea of heaven.
  • fasterik 3mo ago
    Not if you enjoy making things and take pride in your work.
    • sevenzero 3mo ago
      Actually having to work and take responsibility is extremely exhausting compared to corp life, I experienced both, I currently have no corp job, am responsible for a lot of apps and hate every part of it. Boreout is so much better than burnout and I never worked a job that allowed me to have none of them.
• btbuildem 3mo ago
  I would be tempted to send my own bot to do that drudgery
• cbg0 3mo ago
  Just build a bot to bypass their bot.
• anoyomoose 3mo ago
  Soon all communication will start with bots talking to bots trying to find a human. It's already happening with phone calls.