Posted on 09/09/2014 10:07:13 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail! I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I Gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the money back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor. She became indignant and informed me she was Educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the Money back… same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64.
They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail! I walked into a Starbucks with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a Grande Latte. I handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little chalkboard that said “buy one-get one free.” “They’re already buy-one-get-one free,” she said, “so I guess they’re both free.” She handed me my free Lattes and I walked out the door.
They Walk Among Us! One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when one of them shouted, “Look at that dead bird!” Someone looked up at the sky and said, “Where”?
They Walk Among Us! While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn’t want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, “Does the sun rise in the north?” When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, “Oh I don’t keep up with all that stuff.”
They Walk Among Us! I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was open. I told him, “The number you...
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“she is correct. perhaps you had yours written down and found it after hanging up. or you hung up, remembered it and wanted to continue using it. so this could just be a reflex answer. when i go through the drive thru and ask for a black coffee , sometimes the response is “do you want cream?” but i think it’s just a response to asking for coffee.”
We were strictly forbidden from writing down passwords which is why I had forgotten mine.
The password guidelines were absurd and counter-productive. Each word had to be 10 characters long with multiple capital and lower case letters, special characters, and numbers. They were not to include complete words. We were told to compose passwords that matched cute little phrases which we could remember. And, not write them down. Also, each application should have it’s own unique password.
All fine and good when examined from a security point of view but completely unworkable from a human factors point of view. I had ten or fifteen passwords. So I was supposed to compose and remember 10 or 15 unique and cute little phrases? The end result was that people routinely disregarded these rules resulting in a far less secure infrastructure.
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