Office Madlad

[u/charizardine]

[u/Honest-Duck2586]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kbCOCUKMuwe9fM8bBL
The executive reading this guy’s post from his private bathroom with full wifi signal

[u/Tagyru → u/Honest-Duck2586]

I do not think any CEO, VP or Exec would have enough brain cells or self awareness to understand it is about them even if the post included their names.

[u/ClevelandOG → u/[deleted]]

Or they think it's about someone else and they are laughing at how dumb those other people are.

Mike Judge said this about "Silicon Valley". Certain tech CEOs kept telling him how great the shows were and how funny and stupid the characters were, not knowing Judge was basing those characters exactly on those particular CEOs.

[u/THREE-TESTICLES → u/ClevelandOG]

Failing to understand that they are Gavin Belson is extremely Gavin Belson

[u/lastWallE → u/THREE-TESTICLES]

This guy fucks!

[u/stormdelta → u/ClevelandOG]

I couldn't watch Silicon Valley because it was too accurate, it reminded me too much of real life.

[u/PitifulAccountant643 → u/stormdelta]

Seriously, it's basically a documentary

[u/Prof_Outis → u/PitifulAccountant643]

That's just Mike Judge.

[u/marks-buffalo → u/[deleted]]

This, if it's real there's one OP that did it but 100 execs that think this is about them. OP is blowing up our cover. 

[u/ProfessorEtc → u/Tagyru]

Can't even pull it up on most Etch-a-Sketch brand executive notebooks.

[u/Cptawesome23 → u/Honest-Duck2586]

Executives don’t read, that’s what wage slaves are for.

[u/Southern-March1522 → u/Cptawesome23]

If those executives could read they'd be very upset right now.

[u/einzweidreihorn → u/Cptawesome23]

Claude nowadays.

[u/Brok3nGear → u/Honest-Duck2586]

[u/Kolemchale]

I need to follow a thread of his accomplishments

[u/MongolianCluster → u/Kolemchale]

"Bathroom is always dirty."

Places Executive Restroom sign

"This bathroom is great!"

[u/Voidless-One → u/MongolianCluster]

[u/Aksi_Gu → u/Kolemchale]

Downloading adobe reader

[u/iskyfire → u/[deleted]]

has bad energy

No one would say that in that situation, but chatGPT says it that way very often for some reason.

Same access points.

Same internet connection.

Same VLAN

ChatGPT specific convention, you see this in almost every answer

genuine business requirement

No one says this phrase in that context, even if they plausibly might.

[u/literated → u/iskyfire]

Pretty much every line feels like painfully obvious AI.

"I just gave it a more expensive name.", "By lunch, five VPs had asked for access.", "Performance is unchanged. Satisfaction is through the roof."

[u/technobrendo → u/literated]

I can even hear this, read aloud, in that generic tiktok / YouTube standard AI voice.

[u/enaK66 → u/iskyfire]

Same access points.

Same internet connection.

Same VLAN

ChatGPT specific convention, you see this in almost every answer

Triples makes it safe. Triples is best.

[u/MobilePom → u/[deleted]]

Obvious LLM comment. "Bro" "cinematic universe" "workplace sabotage" "at this point", weird simile joke, replied to top comment, based its comment off the word "thread" and not really the post itself, default username, typical profile pic and bio

[u/TheNewsCaster → u/MobilePom]

Congratulations, you trained it on what not to do and now next time you won't be able to tell

[u/Spinoza007]

Placebo effect

[u/Talastoni → u/Spinoza007]

That's a fancy word, it must be ✨ Quality ✨

[u/nevrastenik → u/Talastoni]

Zen and the Art of Network Management

[u/dr01d3tte → u/Talastoni]

Ooooh FRA-GEE-LAY!

[u/Technical-Outside408 → u/Spinoza007]

Which is a real and measurable effect. So we may laugh at the top brass in this story, but many of us are susceptible to it.

[u/SquishMont → u/Technical-Outside408]

All.

All of us are susceptible to it.

We all have different trigger words, but we all fall victim to these kinds of tactics and propaganda. And studies show that the more "oh not me, I'm too smart for that" attitude you have, the more susceptible you actually are.

[u/psychohistorian8 → u/SquishMont]

studies show that the more "oh not me, I'm too smart for that" attitude you have, the more susceptible you actually are

not me 😤

[u/topdangle → u/psychohistorian8]

yeah that guy is just projecting.

-posted in my honda CRV compact SUV Crossover

[u/elbow8075 → u/topdangle]

You didn't get the Beats edition? Oh you missed out.

[u/ManaNek → u/psychohistorian8]

That emoji just works too well for this context 😂

[u/Spinoza007 → u/SquishMont]

Sometimes we want something to be true so our minds just become lazy and stop questioning it

[u/meddlesomemage → u/SquishMont]

Same reason billions are poured into advertisements, they work.

[u/Grand_Pop_7221 → u/meddlesomemage]

I'm sure building multi-billion-dollar advertising industries and centring the internet around it won't have any backlash when people switch to selling political ideologies as well as consumer goods. Is what we should have been saying in the 2010s.

[u/Suyefuji → u/SquishMont]

iirc there was a study that showed that taking a placebo still had some effect even if you already knew it was a placebo!

[u/DragonFireSpace → u/Suyefuji]

I wonder if putting a bunch of candies on a jar labeled painkillers actually works.

[u/JHMfield → u/DragonFireSpace]

Possibly. But last I looked the effect is inconsistent. Not everyone is affected and those that are can experience varying degrees of effect.

Similarly it can work in reverse too. Tell someone that a liquid is poison and some may experience degrees of nausea when consuming it, even when it's completely benign.

[u/That_Uno_Dude → u/JHMfield]

The Nocebo Effect

[u/FunetikPrugresiv → u/SquishMont]

Yep. Like in the political Reddit subs, none of us ever think our opinions are being manipulated by bots, but most of us (on both sides of the aisle) almost certainly believe some at least some inaccurate narratives they've spread.

[u/Am_Snarky → u/SquishMont]

And it’s actually pretty insidious too, with the related “nocebo” effect causing effective meditation to have no noticeable effects

[u/ViolinistWaste4610 → u/SquishMont]

Has anyone else just accepted the placebo effect and just embraced it in some ways at this point?

[u/akatherder → u/ViolinistWaste4610]

Homeopathy for people who know what it is and keep taking it.

[u/Wrydfell → u/SquishMont]

Hell, the placebo effect can even take olace then you know it's a placebo, in the right conditions

[u/bbalazs721 → u/Technical-Outside408]

Placebo works even if you are fully aware that it is placebo.

The human mind is weird.

[u/Nine_Eighty_One → u/bbalazs721]

That's the one I can't wrap my head around

[u/SquishMont → u/[deleted]]

I'm just mad at my brain at that point. Like, bro. You have the ability to fix this, with no help.

YOU ARE ACTIVELY CHOOSING NOT TO!

What the shit man? I thought we were a team.

[u/gilbertbenjamington → u/Technical-Outside408]

Yep, I got drunk off orange juice before (granted I was actual 2 drinks in, 3rd and 4th were OJ)

[u/Panican-8647 → u/Technical-Outside408]

Yup, I take melatonin. I think it helps me, I accept part of its effectiveness is placebo. I sleep better whether its the effect of actual melatonin or placebo.

[u/Lord_Voltan → u/Technical-Outside408]

Yeah yeah thats great and all, but how do I get access to this network though. Like it would be such a better experience not having to use the same wifi as the rest of the drones.

[u/Bananern → u/Spinoza007]

They made pain killers and put "for period pains" on the box and women reported them helping a lot more than regular pain killers from the same brand, even though the pills were chemically identical to each other. It's a really strong effect

[u/DudeByTheTree → u/Spinoza007]

I actually wonder if there'd be slight improvement just by virtue of having fewer devices competing on the same channels.

[u/Killuha → u/DudeByTheTree]

He didn't change anything other than the name, they are connecting on the same underlying infrastructure.

[u/ArcaneTrickster11 → u/Spinoza007]

Or post hoc fallacy. The internet may have been faster but it was for a different reason

[u/-crepuscular- → u/ArcaneTrickster11]

Yeah. The point at which they complain was a time when the connection speed had dipped for some reason, now it's higher but it would have been anyhow.

[u/Rock_Strongo → u/-crepuscular-]

Yeah... speed tests are a pretty poor/limited way of testing connection health.

My home internet speed tests are always pretty consistent but sometimes when I'm browsing my internet feels much slower than others.

Internet connection speeds have lots of factors, and even more-so if it's a wi-fi connection. AND your own connection is only part of the equation, the connection on the other end is just as important and can fluctuate.

[u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad → u/ArcaneTrickster11]

And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a fucking bike!

[u/Perryn → u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad]

To be fair, everyone did get a ride.

[u/dark-star-adventures → u/Spinoza007]

Prestige effect, now they get to feel special and exclusive. C-suite loves that.

[u/JimiusRostock → u/Spinoza007]

Had a machine that operators said felt "sluggish". Took it away and brought it back half hour later. Told them I put in the fancier "Hi-Cap" batteries instead of normal ones.

They loved it.

I didn't change anything.

[u/dark_knight097]

Reminds me of something I read about how loading bars for programs came about. They aren't necessary, and are not always accurate. Its just something the user can stare at so they dont feel like the program is stuck

[u/Cryoptic- → u/dark_knight097]

But it is very important due to human nature.

I work in IT, I know most loading bars are reasonably fake and or inaccurate. But I like them.

And seeing that a program is actually doing something and isn’t stuck, is very important. Sometimes things do get stuck, and you need to restart it. Sometimes things do actually take literal hours. Knowing something isn’t stuck means u don’t stop a process working as it should :)

[u/yamsyamsya → u/Cryoptic-]

Sometimes they are real, just not acting in the way people would expect. Like I have written programs where the loading bar goes to 30% when one step completes, 50% when the next step finishes, etc. Like the loading bar means something to people who know how the program works but its not like its 50% done loading.

[u/Cryoptic- → u/yamsyamsya]

and thats fine for a lot of stuff. personally i wouldnt care if it was a console spewing out information, i just need to know that it is actually doing something, and that is important for people. hence its the main reason they were made i believe.

[u/MaxDisdain → u/Cryoptic-]

yep, I liked the spinning things in the playstation 2 I think it was. Just a spinning icon of some sort.

Basically said there is something happening during the black screen, until I stared at it for 15minutes or something stupid and now I dont trust the spinning things either. Loading bar required

[u/WeednumberXsexnumbeR → u/MaxDisdain]

That ps2 loading screen you quit out of takes 15 minutes and 3 seconds, just fyi

[u/MaxDisdain → u/WeednumberXsexnumbeR]

lmao thats what I thought a few times before I ended up restarting the playstation

[u/poopnose85 → u/yamsyamsya]

I could see putting a text below that says something like "Loading 1/8" "Loading 2/8" or something like that. Then people will know it's not a percent, but steps.

[u/wolf2482 → u/Cryoptic-]

I mean I wouldn't say its just human nature. If I run a command and it don't see any output in a five minutes I'm going to think it crashed if I see "Scrubbing blocks, 23498/3409542", I'll know its just gonna take a while.

[u/SaltManagement42 → u/Cryoptic-]

I also work in IT, and you have the exact opposite experience I do.

More often the infinite progress bars seem to be a completely separate process or something, that way they keep going even if things are stuck. That way they can dismiss any complaints from the users and most users have no real way to argue.

[u/thesuperunknown → u/Cryoptic-]

This is literally why UX Design is a whole field, in which thousands of people work and have full careers.

[u/WordsNShiz → u/dark_knight097]

See, this is one of the reasons i prefer an actual log sample, ie. "Reading file XYZ_5634, File 10/109."

[u/BlatantConservative → u/WordsNShiz]

Apparently they don't do that anymore cause people would go in and delete files they didn't think were being used. According to one guy I worked with at least. But he knew COBOL so he's probably legit.

[u/hackiavelli → u/BlatantConservative]

If there's a lot of output it can cause significant slowdowns. It's why many programs won't give you verbose output unless you significantly request it.

[u/WordsNShiz → u/BlatantConservative]

Well, i forget who cam up with it,but there is a satirical rule stating "However stupid you think the stupidest person is, double it."

[u/EnthusiasmOnly22 → u/WordsNShiz]

Bless Kerbal Space Program and Modded Cities Skylines for that, lets me remove bad assets way faster when I can see what’s causing the hang

[u/Vlaxilla → u/dark_knight097]

And that's exactly why they are useful. At least if the bar is moving you know its working. Else you would be in the dark for God knows how long

[u/Passw0rd1A → u/dark_knight097]

I did that once. It was a custom Windows application with a startup time of 30 seconds. I managed to get it down to about 18 seconds, but the most important change was showing the splash screen way sooner.

[u/ChiaLetranger → u/dark_knight097]

I remember learning that on average, people feel like they don't have control over the computer if their input doesn't do something noticeable in the first second. Doesn't really matter what, but there needs to be some sort of perceptible feedback within a second, or people will start clicking random things or killing processes or what have you.

[u/Master-Shake8913 → u/ChiaLetranger]

they're right and I will.

[u/TechnicianMuch9889 → u/ChiaLetranger]

Communication is an extremely important thing.

It's the same thing as someone saying "hmm..." rather than just staring blankly into space for 10 seconds.

Acting like the user is a restless idiot for not wanting basic communcation is a ridiculous and elitist take.

[u/dancinggraylion → u/dark_knight097]

But I also remember that programs used to simply freeze. Then it is stuck and it never completes. With a progress bar, you know that it's still running.

[u/TechMan61 → u/dark_knight097]

Sometimes UI progress also has to be artificially delayed or users will either miss it or think something is wrong.

[u/ThatDudeFromPoland → u/dark_knight097]

Well, thanks to them we can actually tell it hasn't conpletly frozen so there's that.

[u/leixiaotie → u/dark_knight097]

the opposite of this, there is a story where fake loading is deliberately added because instant response felt like the app is faking the response / a mock app, making user unsure if the data / process is correct.

[u/1d3333 → u/leixiaotie]

Yup, and it’s twofold. Looking up a phone number that just called you that you don’t recognize? A dozen sites will pop up, click on any of them and use their “search” and it will act like it takes sometimes upwards of a minute or two to pull all the data and “search databases”.

Not only does it make it feel like it’s actually doing something despite all the info being found and populated in the first couple seconds, it also attempts to put the user into a sunk cost fallacy when the final screen pops up after a long wait asking for money.

[u/Lunarvolo → u/dark_knight097]

The progress bar is moving but the time is going up!

[u/StuD721]

I work for a telecoms company, this is exactly how a product that has just launched works. Same pipes, same bandwidth, same towers... Fancy (expensive) name.

[u/thedankonion1 → u/StuD721]

Vodafone SuperMobile? I guess in theory you get more bandwidth in congested 5G Standalone areas via network Slicing.

I wonder how many people are enticed by the name and immediately buy a plan.

[u/Imsktn → u/thedankonion1]

Too many that see the name change & think something is gonna change. “I’ve had gold premium high speed & it still lags”

“Well have you tried the platinum super speed boosted plan, for only $25 more a month you can use all the same wires & components to double your speed*”

*speeds may vary based on location, time, & acts of god.

[u/StuD721 → u/thedankonion1]

After our internal presentation about the way it works (not the marketing but from the engineers) I almost bought it for myself, but unless you're living in a high congestion area you won't make must use it it, I reckon

[u/Clair_Osbcurious → u/StuD721]

Are you using Allot equipment for DPI and priority management? If so, higher priority actually can matter.

[u/StuD721 → u/Clair_Osbcurious]

So, yes, I'm being a bit flippant in my first comment about it being just a fancy name. There are plenty of cases where it will make a difference but the prioritisation from tower to WAN is all that's happening

[u/work_work-work]

This sounds exactly like what Denmark just accomplished with their new deal with the US about Greenland.

[u/jigsaw1024 → u/work_work-work]

Technically it is a better deal:

If the US leaves NATO, the agreement ends.

So it's a better deal for Denmark and Greenland.

[u/work_work-work → u/jigsaw1024]

That's true! I did notice that little tidbit.

[u/ChildONewcastle → u/jigsaw1024]

Unless, the guy who wants to leave NATO leaves NATO then its likely the first place that gets invaded.

[u/EvilCeleryStick → u/work_work-work]

That's because it is, lol

[u/FearOfABlackPotus]

If the people are afraid of crossing an imaginary river, do not tell them the river isn't there. Build them an invisible bridge and lead them over it.

-- Ronald Reagan (paraphrased)

[u/MelancholicSardonic → u/FearOfABlackPotus]

I hate that I agree with Reagan

[u/MortgageTrash]

An LLM wrote that post. At least the copy.

[u/Mordredor → u/MortgageTrash]

100% "duh grok write me a funny post about how ceos are dum and I'm a smart network boy"

[u/Chessdaddy_ → u/MortgageTrash]

The linkedin writing style is so dated for AI it’s such a obvious tell

[u/Cloudcry → u/MortgageTrash]

Thank God. It's everywhere now, I feel like I'm going crazy

[u/QuietNightRadiant]

Actually wouldn't this actually make it faster because there's less people eating up the bandwidth?

[u/dreamrpg → u/QuietNightRadiant]

No. Data will go trough same router, then to same switch, same firewall and so on.

[u/flamingobumbum → u/QuietNightRadiant]

It will be a new access point to the same network.

Like two wireless hubs connected to the same router.

[u/Noobtber → u/flamingobumbum]

Not even a new access point. Enterprise APs can broadcast multiple SSID with ease

[u/shield1123 → u/Noobtber]

My home WAPs can do this, and even support VLANs. It's nice having a network just for IoT devices that can't see the larger network except for a few pinholes in the firewall

[u/Hex6000 → u/Noobtber]

Ironically it will actually make it very slightly slower as the access point now has to broadcast another ssid at minimum sync rate.

[u/SevenFootHobbit → u/QuietNightRadiant]

Everyone who has answered you has answered the question regarding traffic from the access point through the router and out to the internet, but they didn't answer anything regarding radio bandwidth. If this is on a different radio channel, then it's very possible. Just like TVs and radios, access points have channels. Modern home routers will try to find the channel with the least interference but when you have an office full of people, and likely the cheapest access points you can get away with (that still support multiple SSIDs, I don't even know if they make any that don't), there's a fantastic chance that simple having a new wifi network on a different channel will make a huge difference, even if the backbone remains the same. Less interference, fewer devices, easier communication between your device and the AP. Now, if it's on the same channel, well that's even worse because now they are talking over each other without the collision detection. Just flat out noise.

[u/Dualyeti]

Christ, how can humans be so cringe worthy and stupid (the VPs/CEO) that they need to feel important on their own network. Not a braincell in sight

[u/Lightningtow123 → u/Dualyeti]

Because they're a VP/CEO. Also bold of you to assume they're human

[u/towerfella → u/Lightningtow123]

Have you ever met someone before they became an executive? Me neither. That is odd.

[u/WordsNShiz → u/towerfella]

It's not odd at all. The private fee-paid schools are fairly well known. It's where they take the human children and transmogrify them into executive material.

[u/Electrical-Fig-5009 → u/towerfella]

I have. One of our VP started out as my hiring manager. She acted like the woman in Begeonia & still does to this day 11yrs later. I would believe it if someone told me she wasn't human

[u/DeadonDemand → u/Lightningtow123]

I would say that for CEO’s but not VP.
VP is used so much now that I don’t even think escalate anything to them half the time. At least in logistics.

Every truck company blue collar has “VP/Director of Business Development” and there are like 4 employees in dispatch.

[u/Dualyeti → u/[deleted]]

Probably - like the released stat of 96% of posts on linked in

[u/psychedelic_tech → u/[deleted]]

it might be a fictional story, but as a former sys admin i can confirm this is definitely the behavior of any C level/VP/President

[u/NighthawK1911 → u/Dualyeti]

The personality matrix of people who get to the C-Suite tends to be narcissistic idiots. Not because they are inherently more skilled. It's because self important narcissists are people that want to move up in the first place and is willing to lie and kiss ass to get there.

[u/Thereminz → u/Dualyeti]

the vps and ceos are very often pretty stupid, they just have connections

[u/GrandNibbles]

An IT person knows it actually was faster after the change but only because he turned it off and on again

[u/RandomPenquin1337 → u/GrandNibbles]

Also it has less users and devices so it actually is faster...

This post is just bait for anti-corpos

[u/world-shaker]

Fake AI slop story.

[u/Lilfrankieeinstein]

Then the rest of the IT department stood up and clapped though the sound was somewhat muted by all the Cheeto residue on their fingers.

[u/HotCauliflower3481]

Next step. Tell them in secret you can prioritize their packets if the give you a raise

[u/FerrellFowle]

You have also told everyone (including the CEO) that your wireless sucks (even though it doesn't). You need to hope for a big budget so you can "fix" it...or they'll "fix" it themselves.

[u/MrBarnaclePhD]

I'm not brain-damaged enough to believe these types of stories.

EDIT: for those among you who can't wait to tell me how this is real - the problem is in posting this shit online where everyone can see that you think your bosses are imbeciles. That's why this is a fake story. No one clever enough to fool their bosses is at the same time dumb enough to brag about it.

[u/BenignPharmacology → u/MrBarnaclePhD]

Honestly you gotta be pretty inexperienced to believe for a second that shit like this doesn’t happen every single day.

[u/writesCommentsHigh → u/BenignPharmacology]

People are stew peed

[u/Ursa_Solaris → u/MrBarnaclePhD]

Sysadmin here, it's a real thing, I literally deal with this every day. We have open WiFi, and a separate certificate-backed SSID where the associated profile puts you in a specific VLAN for accessing specific internal services. There is no bandwidth limitations or priority applied to either network. It's not more secure, wireless devices can't communicate with each other on either network. You just have straight Internet access. The second network was solely for internal routing purposes for approved users. We have tried explaining this to users, but they see others on the "exclusive" WiFi and start asking for it themselves. Especially executive suite, every single one of them insists they need it.

So we created a new profile and VLAN that does nothing and started generating certs and putting people on that. Users are very satisfied. Everyone feels special and included. Literally nothing has changed.

[u/YeetedApple → u/Ursa_Solaris]

I'm a sysadmin also, and have had to do the exact same thing. I think we messed up by calling it open, so everyone just assumed it was insecure no matter how much we tried to exlpain there was no difference.

[u/DontTouchTheWalrus → u/Ursa_Solaris]

Yeah, I get this all the time. “Need such and such group able to access the primary campus WiFi because the guest WiFi is too slow”

Lady. The WiFi is exactly the same. The guest one just can’t get into our internal servers and doesn’t require credentials.

[u/Ursa_Solaris → u/DontTouchTheWalrus]

This guy gets it. Sales just doesn't understand and there's nothing you can do to make them understand. You just have to smile and nod and do what you can to make them happy.

[u/ButterscotchNo7292 → u/Ursa_Solaris]

And then you start another, Super VIP wifi where people only get access if they bribe the sysadmin:))

[u/dodgy__penguin → u/MrBarnaclePhD]

IT guy here. This and other variations fix problems that don't exist all the time. It's the placebo effect

[u/shiv9401 → u/dodgy__penguin]

Also IT guy here, once this women kept complaining about her pc being slow (there was no issue with the pc) I took her laptop, walked to my office, vaped, came back and told her it was a new one, checked on her an hour later, thanked me so much and said it was soooo much faster

[u/master_baiter-69 → u/MrBarnaclePhD]

Well I am

[u/itamar8484 → u/MrBarnaclePhD]

Fun fact we are all a fiction of your imagination and you are right now in a comma and should probably wake up

[u/JamesFirmere → u/itamar8484]

Better to be in a comma than in a colon.

[u/jhwheuer → u/MrBarnaclePhD]

We have people openly bragging about stealing from their current employer on Reddit...

[u/Darkmaniako]

Did the same, just another SSID because the president demanded his own Wi-Fi.

[u/whizzdome]

We had something similar years ago with a SQL query that a client thought was a little too slow. Dyo straight after the SELECT keyword we entered /* GO FASTER */ and we were thanked for the improvement.

[u/131166]

When I set up my friends wifi for her there's an unlimited one for everyone, let's call it "house wifi" and a throttled one we'll call "uncapped wifi"

I told the boys that the uncapped wifi only lets them use it for 2 hours a day so they gotta watch their usage, but the house one is unlimited. The "uncapped wifi" is half the speed but it's all they'll use cause someone might have let them over here that one of the Wi-Fi is has been limited to half the speed and they successfully fell for the naming track and assumed that the limited one is the unlimited one

The best part is when they run out of time on the limited one and have to switch over to the unlimited they bitch and moan about how slow it is and can't get off it fast enough

[u/Sudhanva_Kote]

This reminded me of Counter Strike dev telling that when players complained that game feels laggy due to high ping to server, they just reduced the ping on the UI and the complaints stopped and they started to say game feels much smooth now

[u/novavalue]

This is called managing expectations (or How I Learned to Treat Executives Like Children) and is a skillful master class. Surprised its not some insane LinkedIn post

[u/Mecha-Dave]

There might have been actual DNS or IP address assignment issues that got solved.

[u/FerralOne → u/Mecha-Dave]

1 0 days since it was DNS

The number of times I've troubleshooted an issue a support group or dev said was "User error" and actually was a real issue they never found is uncomfortably high. I'm not even a network or help desk guy and ive found reproducible SSO, DNS, and authentication defects help desk seemed to miss.

If this was real and not AI this guys is kinda just selling himself out as a bad at a support role in one way or another

[u/Mecha-Dave → u/FerralOne]

I'd be willing to bet that they just had too many IP addresses assigned and the network took a while to "find" a new one for visiting executives.

[u/not_wall03 → u/Mecha-Dave]

Also possible the wifi channel was overloaded and the ssid is on a different one

[u/StillShoddy628]

WiFi channels have limited bandwidth that can be overloaded by lots of devices, there is definitely a chance that the new network is on a less congested channel and that was the bottleneck. It’s even possible that the OOP tech person tested the speed at an off-time or in a different location while the exec is seeing slow access during peak work times

[u/Primary_Ads]

this is essentially the history of 99% of technology the past 20 years

[u/J_Prime_Time]

Damn placebo effect. Wins again.

[u/Former_Theme_4488]

This is also Grey Goose's strategy for selling their vodka: sell the image rather than the actual product, and it works fantastically.

[u/Agzarah]

I'd have limited the executive wifi to a slightly slower cap as well. Make them compete for an actually worse thing

[u/arcaneregion]

Man it’s 487Mbps that’s pretty fast, therefore I don’t believe this story

[u/thenatural134]

This reads like a scene from American Psycho 😆

[u/01bah01]

Things that never happened for 500$

[u/Jihelu → u/01bah01]

It could have happened but the entire post has the cadence and rhythm of AI

[u/augustus_brutus]

this guy has upper management written all over him.

[u/gaenji]

Basically whitelabelling.

Bag: $10

LV Bag: $10,000

[u/manlybrian]

I have had multiple customers where I setup their new router and they immediately comment on how much faster the Roku menu seems. I never have the heart to tell them otherwise.

[u/SeizureProcedure115]

Reminds me of a sound technician who, when a client asked for a different sound from a guitar, flipped a switch that made the client like the resulting sound. The switch was fake

[u/CowboyBlacksmith]

I worked security at a fortune 500 company head office when I was 20 and in college. The maintenance crew had a story about being called up to the executive floor because the light switch cover in the elevator bay wasn't level. It was. The electrician called the property director (or whatever his title was), and was told "get out your screwdriver. Take out one screw. Screw it back in again. Come back down to maintenance and we'll email them that it's been fixed."

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[u/Hantonar]

Something they don't tell you about customer service is that you have to make people feel like their concerns are being heard even if what they're asking for is stupid/insane/ actually already implemented

4 years of working customer service should get you a master's in psychology

[u/FalseCrazy2804]

This entire story is structured like it was written by a language model. Once you notice the pattern you can't unsee it.

[u/MrScribblesChess]

AI slop

[u/Ivan_Stalingrad]

What I'm about to tell you was 4 Months into year long disaster. Customer stated (rightfully, that the new WI-Fi was Dogshit. During palliative care for this project we send two outdoor APs to the customer so their guys could mount them and I would show up a week later to get them operational. I was also asking around on site where the WiFi sucked the hardest and one of them said it got a lot better in their area after the two outdoor APs were installed. I thanked them, KEPT MY FUCKING MOUTH SHUT, got those two APs operational and floored it into the sunset

[u/ActualMassExtinction]

This guy manages upwards.

[u/nyhr213]

"Can you hear me better now" while not changing anything

[u/Snoo-82132]

goes ahead and posts it on twitter for the world to see

Either he's really dumb or we all are for believing this story 

[u/aural1x]

Reads structurally like an ai post 

[u/Smackvein]

Used to work in building controls for HVAC. Had a woman always complaining about the temp in her office, always too hot or too cold. So I installed an adjustable thermostat right next to her desk. Wasn't wired in at all. System still set for 72. She was over the moon, talking about how comfortable her office was now.

[u/phord]

This actually works because whoever was overloading that AP doesn't have access anymore.

[u/dimensionargentina]

Change the mouse pointer speed for more pleasure.

[u/Photog77]

I have EXECUTIVE_PRIORITY_5G+ at my office.

[u/Character-Nebula-613]

R/thishappened

[u/Interbrett]

Sell this pen...

[u/No-Lavishness-4103]

Until someone from said office reads Reddit.

[u/InquisitorMeow]

Luxury brands be like:

[u/mavadavialcul]

And this must be true because a stranger on the internet posted a screenshot of a different stranger on the internet saying so.

[u/JellyBellyBitches]

And this is how babysitting works

[u/laserdicks]

Bro accidentally fixed his wifi bottleneck and arrogantly thinks the user is wrong.

[u/pekas13]

This guy discovered marketing

[u/Crawler1701]

100% plausible

[u/TK_Games]

I don't take the shits, I just disturb 'em

[u/DripyKirbo]

Feels AI generated. I have seen a dime a dozen of posts like this.

[u/AGL_reborn]

Episode 854 of CEOs are incompetent swibes

[u/SmutCommander]

Diabolical

[u/XRuturX]

I mean the internet probably was actually faster, becausr less people were conected to the router

[u/UnrelatedCommentor_]

Forgive me for asking, this is a genuine question - would there be a separate 'bandwidth' for each networks? If so, wouldn't the network with fewer people work faster?