People really do seem worse online than in person

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[–]trident765[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I had shut down a real estate business and sold the properties. I had a bank account with multiple sub-accounts, one for each property. So I went to the bank to close this. I got one cashier's check for each sub-account. My personal bank (different bank) used to allow deposits by mail but now requires an app. I tried using the app to deposit the checks but got an error that the checks are too large. My bank has no branches where I currently live. My wife called them and they said to go to a branch in some other city which basically requires a flight. So I went back to the bank that issued the cashier's checks and got them to exchange the checks for multiple checks of smaller amounts so that I can deposit them.

Something similar happened with my prescription for my glasses. I moved out of state and the optometrist (which is part of a big corporation) wouldn't mail me or email me my prescription, saying they do fax or in-person only. And since the cost of a plane ticket or a fax machine make obtaining the prescription prohibitively difficult, since they would be more than the cost of getting another eye exam done, I left them a 1-star review saying they are witholding my prescription (which is illegal). After this they called me to apologize, informing me that they would mail me my prescription, so I deleted the review. I hate that this is the world we live in, but market forces seem to no longer work, and businesses aren't willing to lift a finger to make things more convenient for their customers. The only thing anyone seems to respond to is the force of government.

[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I guess my point is that all of my experiences are like this. The only place outside my home where I meet people who I don't feel like killing are in a mosque or Mennonite church.

These coworkers of yours, do they recognize that Git and other modern software are horrible? I don't see any difference between Git and any other senseless bureaucracy described in this thread.

[–]trident765[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They use git but I don't know them well enough yet to know their views on git. At my previous workplace though, they hated git and used mercurial for years, using an internal mercurial server, until finally last year they were forced by upper management to switch to git. This happened after another group of modern scum programmers convinced upper management to turn everything to shit and persecute the good programmers. This is why I left (and it worked out because I got a decent pay increase as well).