Humanity just lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years, report says - eviltoast
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      1 year ago

      Letting a crazy through is usually a result of them acting normal with the receptionist, then going crazy once they get on the line with someone else. The end call button doesn’t prevent that.

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        1 year ago

        Can’t they press the red button? This is literally the cyberbullying thing again, literally close your screen, walk away from the computer, press the red button, wtf

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          1 year ago

          Yes, once the crazy person starts spouting their crazy the scientist they’ve connected to can hang up. but it’s still embarrassing for a receptionist to accidentally let one get through.

          I’m not sure why you’re so confused about this.

          • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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            Why is any of that a problem? A crazy dude comes up, gets by reception by not showing signs of an unhinged lunatic until he gets further down the line and then whenever someone is like yeah this dude’s dumb, just click the red button it’s not that hard and no one should feel bad about it. Except for the crazy fella of course.

            It is confusing. I mean if she’d let crazy people walk in, yeah that’d suck since you can’t make them disappear with a click of a button but phones literally have the red thing for these situations. None of this makes sense.

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              1 year ago

              Because it’s a waste of their time when they could be doing something more important? Are you really this dense?

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                1 year ago

                Sure, but how is it embarrassing for whoever let them through? Or how much time really is wasted, it takes like a second to press the button

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                  1 year ago

                  Context switching, if it ends up being an irrelevant phone call even if it’s short, it can throw off your flow. It’s embarrassing because they were tricked into letting through a bad call. Are you like an alien trying to understand humanity or something?

                  • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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                    1 year ago

                    I wouldn’t call it tricking, more like deceiving with a clear intent to be a nuisance to everyone involved. Presumably even the scientist down the line was deceived into talking to them before inevitably hanging up. Nothing embarrassing about that. But yeah I don’t disagree with the flow thing, that sucks but again it’s no ones fault but the callers.

                    Are you like an alien trying to understand humanity or something?

                    You say that as a joke (?) but this honestly is my lemmy-experience so far in a nutshell lol.

        • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.world
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          This is literally the cyberbullying thing again, literally close your screen, walk away from the computer, press the red button, wtf

          Yeah, if people stalk you around the internet and bully you, just don’t use the internet, duh!

          Oh good, well, at least you’ve outed yourself?

          • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            if people stalk you around the internet and bully you

            How the hell would this happen? Change your username if you feel concerned. Or don’t use the internet like you said.

            at least you’ve outed yourself?

            Outed myself as a what?