Is there a word for the recent phenomenon where us customers get tracking systems that show staff gaming their impossible-to-meet performance targets in real time?
Like that notification for a delivery attempt that your doorbell camera somehow completely missed.
I haven’t seen it, but between your tweet and this one, I think I’ll give it a shot!
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Trump is busy destroying that uniqueness.
Apparently my payroll account gets deactivated due to inactivity if I don’t log in to it at least once a month.
Who is downloading their (monthly) payslips more than once a month?! 🤪
Curling
I went curling yesterday while on a work trip to Toronto. 🥌
It was great fun! I thought it would be like bowling but it’s much more in depth.
Surprisingly physical, and now every part of me hurts. (to the point where I’ve been told at home to stop moaning!)
Monzo you literally lost 3 new customers who would have signed up today, by being harder to get in touch with than high street banks to answer a simple question.
Being impossible to contact is a huge red flag.
Probably doesn't matter as it seems there's nobody there to answer once you're through the maze of options.
And no human gets back to you on their in-app chat (waiting 24h so far).
This is worse customer service than the high street bank my parents are trying to switch away from.
It seems like @monzo.com's phone menu doesn't recognise tones being sent from any iOS device I've tried. Phone bug? Monzo bug? Works on an Android device.
I’m not falling for that. The one with the egg isn’t a real chicken! 😉
I’ve been vibe coding a thing that I’m really pleased with so far.
If you own a stack of domains for side projects you’ll get to one day, you might enjoy this too!
False advertising from Europcar:
I booked an EV for a holiday in Spain. Website says "no recharge required" – the collection desk argued I must recharge it before returning it, and finally caved when I showed them the website.
I get home, and – surprise surprise – they charged me for recharging. 🤷♂️
AI voice cloning scam calls – where scammers can record your voice to make an AI clone of it and then use that to scam your relatives. 👇
Presumably even your outgoing voicemail greeting might be enough for them to use if you don't answer their call. I've just deleted mine. 👀
If anything, it *teaches* them that 'their' can be used to refer to somebody when you don't yet know their gender.
Incredible memories! Loved it :D
It wouldn't store your content (other than in the browser cache for that one user) and it might give the user a rephrased version of your content if they've asked for it to be simplified or explained. But again, only for that one user, and never sent anywhere away from their device.
Ooh I'll share this with my team making AI features for Firefox. Thanks Remy!
(Also hello! Long time no see 👋 we've moved back to Brighton after years away)
This is the kind of thing I’m working on at Mozilla, but from a UX perspective.
I’ll share this with the engineering team. 👍
I took my 8-year-old daughter to the office on 'Take Your Kid To Work Day'.
But when we walked in the office she started to cry.
As concerned staff gathered round I asked her what was wrong and she said: "Daddy where are all the clowns you said you worked with?"
It's bad. You're being assimilated!
Help! I’m looking for an expert in neurodiversity (in adults, in the workplace) to come and do a talk and raise awareness. Does anyone know someone who can do this? 🙏
Zoom need to make it so that if your dog or cat is on your lap, they're not blurred as part of the 'blur background' setting.
I want to see your dogs and cats!
Hello Jeremy 👋 Any upcoming gigs for the new album? Been
listening today.
And we're back living in Brighton so it'd be nice to see you!
Stop eating your lunch at your desk. Go and have an actual proper lunch break. Nobody gives a shit that you keep working on your lunch break, least of all your boss. It's not going to get you a promotion, but it is going to burn you out.
Saying somebody “will be missed” is so passive and inauthentic, like there’s a silent “but not by me” at the end.
If it was heartfelt it would be “I will miss them” or “many of us will miss them”.
Same with saying “my apologies” instead of “I’m sorry”.
We all know that 6 was scared of 7 because 7 8 9...
…but 7 was scared 2, 4 6 8 10.
Best tweet on Bluesky so far 😂
"Hennimore it's vital I stay alert during this meeting so I'll need you to bring me my caffeine pills halfway through they're in a white bottle with a blue lid. On no account should you confuse them with my sleeping pills which have a blue lid & white bottle. I'll just leave them on this lazy Susan"
A frustrating conversation with Claude AI, where it acknowledges that its response ignored my repeated and very clear instructions.
This is my life now. Thanks @anthropic.com 🤦♂️
