Slapfight breaks out in /r/jailbreak when a user messes with a display iPad in an Apple Store. Downvotes abound and everyone gets offended on behalf of everyone else. (np.reddit.com)
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67 comments submitted at 16:37:05 on Sep 30, 2014 by god_uses_a_mac
Making someone's job harder just to make their job harder is a shitty thing to do.
But that's not really whats happening here. It's just a harmless prank and the fix for it is spending a minute or two navigating menus and then letting the device do its own thing for a couple of hours.
If it really bothers someone enough to argue about it online, they need to chill out.
Not that any of that matters, because the only thing the person did was argue with the idea that it's going to be hell to undo it when it's not and he wasn't actually trying to support the OP at all.
This thread has been linked to from elsewhere on reddit.
^(I am totes' unyielding will.)
I think there are a lot of "geniuses" around here downvoting people. I mean, really? How is this not a complete non-issue? And you are right about the guy not even defending OP. If the worst part of your day is restoring a display model to default settings because it apparently couldn't survive contact with the general public, I would suggest you have it quite easy.
People are obsessed things being black and white. Either it's entirely wrong and completely unacceptable, deserving all the effort in the world to fight against or it's completely OK and should be supported.
"Eh, it's not a good thing to do but it's not really that shitty, not really a big deal, and kind of interesting" is too much of a grey area for most of people, even the people of reddit.
If it were funnier, reddit would probably have upvoted it beyond belief. OP should have put the screen on something redditors like. Like memes or kittens.
Your "even the people of reddit" made me laugh. In my daily life I rarely meet people that are as opinionated and unjustifiably confident in their minimal reasoning powers as the average poster in the default subs.
Anonymity and Wikipedia.
That sounds reasonable. I think it's hilarious. I sometimes get into physics discussions on the defaults, where I get downvoted and some idiot who says blatantly untrue things gets upvoted. I have written papers that are published in peer reviewed journals, but apparently someone who sometimes scrolls through the "I fucking love science" Facebook page has a better grasp on quantum mechanics. Insert the gif of Jennifer Lawrence nodding here.
No, that means one less person on the floor helping people.
Not for very long. You don't even have to restore it at a time when there's enough customers for that to be an issue.
Right, the reason I have to wait 45 minutes for a 20 year old with an iPad on his hip to come read instructions off of the iPad is specifically caused by shenanigans throughout the 20'X20' lobby/sales floor. Get fucking real.
Yes, people dicking around with displays takes employees away from other tasks.
If this incident stops someone from being helped, Apple stores need a new service model.
Yes, Apple should hire more employees. Or you could just stop vandalizing displays.
Lol. I didn't touch a display, and it's not vandalized. And it's not about hiring more employees. If your store can be noticeable bogged by one display being fucked up, you've got some issues.
It's not my store, and no one is getting bogged down. Simply stated, vandalizing the display will mean there is one less person to help until it is fixed.
Oh, the humanity. Seriously, what's the big deal? I mean, I don't think what the guy did is especially cool or even interesting, and it's kind of a dick move to not put it back like you found it. But people in that thread act like he deep fried a battered baby to take to a miscarriage support group pot luck lunch.
I never said it was. It's a shitty thing to do though.
Then what exactly was the "no" in you post referring to?
That restoring an iPad is the worst part of the day. It's not but it means one more person has to wait or one less person gets helped.
My sympathy is limited, but I see your point ;)
Fuck, this is why I hate retail. This could easily be done after hours, but of course the store manager(s) wouldn't want to pay for the overtime.
Fuck staying after hours to reset a machine because some dicknugget screwed with the settings.
Because it's such a hard thing to do. If it's part of your job, quit bitching and do your damn job, it's as simple as that.
When I was younger I worked at a massive clothing store and sometimes the changing rooms would be a disaster; I'm talking a pile of clothes up to your thighs on super busy days. We'd have to hang everything up and put them back, usually at the end of a long ass day. Was it cancer? No. But it still fucking sucked and the fact that it would have taken that shopper an extra second or two to bring the clothes out of the dressing room instead of throwing it on the ground made it suck even harder. It always seemed to happen after you've been on your aching feet for 12 hours and, in the end, all you had to show for that extra hour you spent dealing with it was 6 fucking bucks after taxes.
It being "part of the job description" doesn't mean people can't complain about it and it certainly doesn't justify making someone's life harder. Dealing with former prosecutor judges that hate defense attorneys, deny my motions and scream at me just because they can is part of my job description now, am I not allowed to be frustrated by it? Am I not allowed to think that judge is a fucking douche because "oh well I knew what I signed up for."
Seriously, I wonder how many of you have actually had jobs that require you deal with people. Or maybe any job, since anyone who has been in the workforce for any significant amount of time understands this.
> How is this not a complete non-issue?
Because there's a lot of shit that needs to be done when you're running a store and adding to that workload just for a lark is a dick move. The sign works just fine when in contact with the general public - someone with specific knowledge was able to bypass their lockouts. The respectful thing to do would have been to explore what he found, re-open the Smart Sign app and leave it alone. Instead he vandalized a public display because he thought it would be funny. The issue isn't just that he made someone's life marginally more difficult.
Yes, apparently it's necessary to add that I get that. But if you read the linked thread, people are acting like it's literally worse than people using literally instead of figuratively. I agree that it's a dick move, I (literally) said that. But as far as dick moves go, this ranks somewhere between not flushing the toilet after you took a shit and having those slightly bluish headlights on your car.
To be fair, having HID headlights on your car when they're not designed for them isn't just a dick move. It's straight-up dangerous to other road users. So that ended up being a pretty wide spectrum of dickishness you offered there. :P
Fair enough though, I get what you mean. Having an aneurysm about it is silly.
Shit, I spent almost a minute coming up with the boundaries of that range. Think of all the useful things I could have done with that time instead! I only see those headlights on BMWs and Mercedeses around here, so that's what I was going for. But you got that, so I don't know why I'm writing this. Anyway, I'm not going to not post it now, might as well have something to show for my wasted time.