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Hell I didn’t have to print anything after we went back in person in college either. People just don’t print as much as they used to in general. HP sucks, but they aren’t the reason printer usage is tanking | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
As someone who started to work at HP when John Young and Lew Platt were CEO's and Dave Packard was still Chairman...to watch firsthand as Carly Fiorina (and later Mark Hurd), turned a tech behemoth into basically a printer ink company is is one of the great tragedies of American industry.
As you could probably guess, I was let go during the Carly years. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Ehhh while yes I think covid absolutely accelerated the move away from home printing I still have to disagree with that assertion. Ink prices largely driven up by hp is why I've used kinkos of other similar printing services for about a decade on the rare occasions I actually need something printed. They've been unrealistically priced for years. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I found my nice Canon at goodwill for $15, and I've spent $50 on cartridges in 3 years. I just opened the 3rd of 4, and I print a good bit for WFH.
I now splurge on really nice paper.... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Time to make ink cartridges 20% smaller and bump the price up 20% for good measure. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
They don't even bother putting paper in the office printer at my job. It was kind of annoying when I actually had to print something. There's no need anymore when digital documents are all shared digitally. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Same. The only times I need to print anything for personal use is when I have to return something to Amazon. I'm not getting a whole printer just for that, so I print at work. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
if i remember correctly you just remove the chip at the bottom and put it on the new one and it work | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Get. A. Laser. Printer!! Brother make good ones. Fuck HP and their scummy should-be-illegal tactics. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Don't copy me. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
HP inkjets would give me about five pages and then dry out. You could shake the cartridges and feel the ink in them, they just wouldn’t print. So I switched to laser. It would print but with frequent jams, horrible quality, and random bugs. Like it would print t it at 15% transparency in .doc but 75% transparency in .pdf. Never 100%, unless it was the test page. The test page was always perfect and brilliant, but there were no settings I could change or adjust that made it actually print properly. If I wanted to be able to read a .doc I’d have to export it to .pdf and print it from there. At one point it did start printing text at darker than 75% transparency but only hyperlinked text. And then the random paper size selections. Trying to print my property tax receipt to go to my appointment at the DMV and it decides that I’d like a sheet of wallet sized versions. No settings, anywhere on the printer screen or any of the software on the computer had wallet size selected. If I did a screenshot on my phone and printed from iphotos it got up to a 5x7 and I called it good enough. That’s my HP printer experience. Meanwhile I’ve owned two Brother sewing machines since 1994. The only reason I bought a second one is because I loaned the first one to a friend and her cat knocked it off the shelf. Taking the Brother printer out of the box I could see it was just built better. It has sway bars. The paper tray doesn’t rest directly on the table surface. It prints at 100%. I’d forgotten what it was like. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Are they the ones that are trying to make printing as a service? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
If I had more say in printer purchases we wouldn’t by buying hot piles (of shit) HP printers. Not profitable enough to give effective support? Well if thats the case fuck you then I aint buying. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
As far as my office goes, we have mostly transitioned away from paper products. Pretty much everything we do is on network now. We probably print about 90% less paper than we did 5 years ago. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Idk what to tell you. Mine has been fine.
Not like I ever print but when I do the HP does its job. Doesn't blow my mind but it meets my baseline expectation. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That's what he said | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
>printing has been up by a lot for me (books sometimes)
Horseshoe usage has been up a lot among the Amish.
Printing has been on a steady downhill trajectory for a long time. Numbers I have found say revenue has declined for the industry by 2.6% every year from 2017-2022 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Just use Adobe Lens app for scanning from your phone. It straightens up your scans, knits multiple pages into a single PDF, and has one-touch filters for different documents types, including a B&W one that fixes contrast and removes grays and noise in the white part. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Sold printers claiming to give you FREE INK FOR LIFE subscription. Only 10 pages a month but that is all I ever needed to print.
Proceeds to make the free plan cost money 2 months after I buy the printer, more then what I pay in ink carts. Scumbag HP. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
We are a family of computer and smartphone users, but even with a kid in school who sometimes needs to print things for homework, the printer in our house seems to be used about once a month, tops. It's become one of our back-compatibility things, like the way we still have some devices that can play DVDs, or the way I still have a checkbook to write checks. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
They long since caught onto that, printers now come with 'starter cartridges' that can only print a few dozen pages. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Easily the worse “smart” printer i’ve ever owned. I was open to giving their ink subscription a try, one of the absolute worse decisions ever. Subscription dies often because of payment errors on a card I have never had issues with elsewhere. Their app is a facade of web redirects and no actual functionality. Website and login problems make it a nightmare to get anything changed. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
People still print? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
> Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic
More like people are sick and tired of HP's debauchery. I work in the document imaging industry, and can confirm more of an increase in printing than anything, with more people giving up their HP shitboxes for decent equipment. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Makes sense. I only print in b&w | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Saving a LOT of trees. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Hewlett packard can suck my nuts | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-12-06 |
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Aren't SLAs usually for contracted teams like IT or client relationships? I've never heard of SLAs for in-team communication. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The sad part is that in an outage it doesn't matter how much documentation you have either. The guy that just knows and can fix it will save you millions compared to those digging through a knowledge base.
Pro tip: Increase staff and implement shadowing programs before it's too late. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yoooo I'd never heard that! How fucking funny. Alcohol is just as bad as any industry right now. Late stage capitalism will do that. I appreciate the info. That's too funny. Bitter, yet funny. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
> Quarterly bonuses based on cost reduction. Headcount reduction is a way to achieve this.
I never knew a manager who was paid a bonus based upon reduction in salaries. They could maybe be rewarded for reducing capital costs and other expenses. I don't think I knew any like that, but I couldn't be sure.
Most line managers do not see an overall budget, just maybe equipment/capital expenses. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I had to talk to these idiots on the phone every few weeks as my company kept their money there. All of us would talk about changing banks every time we had to talk to them. I honestly do not know how Wells Fargo functions as a bank. When talking to anyone there they have zero idea of what is going on. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Right. As it stands, they aren't left leaning | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I didn't. I saw it as telling those at home who are doing chores (wash clothes, wash dishes, laundry, cooking lunch or dinner)while answering phone calls to get ya ass to work | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah but hyperbole is like the absolute best most fun thing in the world okay so let it gooooo. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
yeah, except that work visas mess with this logic a lot. smart hard workers end up locked in. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I knew someone at my company that did that from the very beginning. I'm not sure how he lasted several years when his output was at 0 the whole time. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
No, our country isn’t left leaning so Democratic politicians have to pretend they’re more conservative than they are, eg Obama saying he opposed gay marriage. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I think "pretending" assumes too much good will of them, there are several (if not most) that would be actually right wing politicians in most of the other democracies. The fact that they're the the further to the left that you can elect in the US is a sad state. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Just Google the Overton window, it’s obvious you didn’t understand the comment you were replying to. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Less liability if you quit versus being fired. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Plot twist, all the /r/workreform mods are HR execs at FAANG or F500 companies trying to make their job a little easier | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Manchin and Sinema are just a reflection of the voting population, not the Democratic Party (I know neither is a democrat anymore, but they’re the kind of people you’re talking about). There are more red states than blue states, Democrats can’t hold the senate with 51 progressives. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Ya I’m product development and we are all remote. Super hard to actually communicate and sign off on product changes if not everyone can actually feel and touch it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Our company just doubled down on remote working. From a light touch hybrid post-pandemic. Engineering in particular was noted to perform better when remote. Also noted was the ability to pick up top talent from companies with strict RTO policies. All our offices are being redesigned and reconfigured to support a mostly remote workforce, with fewer desks and more meeting rooms. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I took the Cardhu distillery tour a couple months ago and kind of picked up a "this only exists because we have Johnnie Walker money" vibe. Great tour though and I had fun meeting their highland cows. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
All Reddit wfh discussion always turns to massive cope eventually lol | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Worked for me - my husband and I retired 10 years earlier than planned. Sadly for our companies, we both have skills that are not easily found. Our positions are still open after 6 months… | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Naa, everywhere. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Tech bros aren’t engineers. They’re wannabe finance or business people who took a bootcamp and now they think they can become project managers at a tech company. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Because honest people don't sell. Every IT project and product I've ever worked on has been sold under false pretenses or through lack of understanding. Never for the real price and often features have been cut or prices have increased. Or companies have lost tons of money to keep clients.
Honest, smart people will always seem too expensive to hire on paper. The fact they'll probably be cheaper in the end is never going to mean anything to the guy looking at two offers.
There are exceptions, but they're rare. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
My entire team is remote! We hire the best people available from across the country and tailor our training and mentoring for remote staff. So they're given everything needed to succeed and beyond that it's sink or swim, either you do the work or I'll find someone else. (We only had to fire someone twice since moving to this approach, meanwhile turnover is double anywhere else in the company and they can never find good candidates locally.) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
>I'm out of my depth here, but why the fuck would HR care about people leaving the office?
In the UK at least the process for doing a mass redundancy is a lot of work and effort from the HR department. If even something cuts the number of roles effected down, it would lessen their workload.
Maybe in the US a redundancy is as easy as saying "you're fired" to 500 people and revoking all their IT access but I would assume not. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
If by 'first bit' you mean less than half of the very first sentence, okay... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I would think the most capable people know they won't be fired so there is no instability so they would not leave. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
As an aussie, I read that as "rostered time off"
Why would free RTO make employees quit?!?!?! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Non competes have recently been banned. Existing ones before the ban apply, but new ones are unenforceable. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Found the micromanager. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
And 100% of employees hoped RTO would make bosses quit. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
To be fair, lying is a useful skill in most aspects of modern business not just management.
Being a good liar also helps with sales, marketing, public relations, human resources, legal, accounting etc. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Exactly. Policies designed to "make employees quit" usually lead to brain drain. The first ones to leave are always the ones who can easily find something else or better i.e. your best people with skills, experience, and drive. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Also the ones they hired during the Job boom at higher salaries that know they got it good. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Former freelancer here: No. You get your agreed upon pay and absolutely nothing else. In fact as a freelancer you have to pay twice the taxes because your employer doesn't (in the US at least). When I stopped freelancing my life got so much better. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That's why I always insist that the remote or work-from-home policy is put in my contract. If the company does not want to do it, you can already assume that they will pull some RTO stunt in the future. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
But that's the point. If they fire you, you get severance, unemployment etc.
RTO is just companies circumventing mechanisms that protect the employees. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
In most cases, this isn't true at all. Not because the people are to valuable to let go, but because there are enough cogs that it wouldn't matter if they lost even the top 10% of performers. The system will keep moving and profiting. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Think about the shareholders though! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Damn, I believe it.
Some of these assholes are something else. I'm at a fairly small company where everyone wears a lot of hats and has a lot of institutional knowledge which takes years to accumulate.
We have a relatively new admin person who is now inexplicably in charge of a lot of things like who can work from home when.
My manager was explaining how their stupid policies were going to make people quit, and then whole projects would be dead in the water. Meanwhile, giving in just a little bit would cost the company essentially nothing. Forcing on-site only was all risk, no reward.
The admin person was just like "well people will do what they're going to do, if they need to quit, so be it".
Then they had to deal with weeks of nearly every single person telling them where they can shove it. The company didn't totally walk it back, but suddenly a lot exceptions were made and policies were a lot more loose.
I don't know what these small companies are thinking when they are already working with skeleton crews and then threaten the people who make the product. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That's the thing, the bosses who think like that, don't see employees are people with different skill.
The people in management who do care, don't have a say. They get told to replace them with someone just as good for half the cost, or they get fired themselves. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Can someone ELI5 to me why companies want to push for people to go back to the office? Financially it doesn’t make sense to me. Surely companies would like to lean into an option that significantly reduces overhead. No longer needing to pay for upkeep, heating, lighting, custodial staff, food, kitchen staff, increasingly more expensive rent, etc. while actually making their employees *happier* as well. And significantly increasing the pool with which you can hire from.
Surely the only people benefitting from this is the people who own these lots for the offices? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The media is meant to show the narrative of the bosses, not the worker.
See why union coverage is the way it is. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
RTO is Return to Office in this case. Had to do a double take as well. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Managers quiet fire their top talent who are capable of easily finding better work and then act surprised to find the remainder of their staff quiet quitting. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Some companies sold their offices and are requiring people to move hundreds to thousands of miles to RTO. I've been there before and I'm not doing it again. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This has resulted in so many over paid people in tech, all the useless people stayed… and the highly skilled were replaced with whoever had a pulse in the area. I know people who can hardly code pulling 150k a year in insurance. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
As a former employee, I assure you we it was simply an unorganized mess. The bank was decades behind integrating their systems. Coming from Chase it was just awful. Most absurd thing in my time there: we were switching credit card companies for our business card from visa to Mastercard. Our relationship ship with visa ended I believe June of 2023. We were suppose to have a business credit card available a few months later in September (which I thought was stupid, how could you delay offering retail clients ~any~ card for their business)? No…due to problems they never explained we didn’t offer it for a whole year. May 2024. Tens of millions in revenue lost. They can’t do basic things right. They couldn’t figure out how to release a credit card. The third largest bank in the US did not have business credit cards for a year. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This scenario is so very oddly specific that it could only have come from personal experience. Thinking back, the only times I did this to my employees were when they had no public speaking experience. It's really not worth my time to listen to someone mumble and stammer over their words. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I'm dealing with this right now. I just helped save four major accounts on orders of our actual CEO late last year and into this year. Easily 25% of our annual revenue. I had to do it without billing as a concession. Again, PER THE ORDERS OF THE CEO.
A few weeks ago: "Your billable utilization was to low last quarter and if you don't get it up, you'll be fired."
Before the call was over I had updated my resume and have already started taking calls. I was so angry. I'm sure the CEO is getting a bonus for saving those four accounts, I'm getting a lecture and told I'm not performing. I'm still pissed. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I know a couple old hands who had to handle integration (or lack thereof) in M&A there after ‘08. And I’m a financial economist so I have a teeny bit of institutional knowledge. Fitness is no joke, and regulators are lawyers not tech people. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Your assuming everyone wants remote | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Like the scientists who gave us leaded gasoline, eugenics, and Crick & Watson, the Tuskegee scientists...
Please remember that any group of people, given power, will show their true colors - and nothing prevents a scientist from being a psychotic dick and there are plenty of examples in history of that. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Even with the scientific process, the statement: "Science advances one funeral at a time" is still a truism. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That’s because they know the surveys aren’t anonymous. Because their anonymous employee surveys aren’t anonymous. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Not just executives, happens with managers and supervisors too. Corporate America in particular runs on nepotism. When people say it all about who you know, that's what it means, you gotta rub elbows with the right people, kiss the right asses. Competency and skill barely enters the equation. Gets even worse when everyone in the management chain is MBAs or similar. They don't even know what skills to look for, if they were trying. Edit: just to be clear, having an MBA isn't bad by itself, the issue is when that's all anyone has across the whole chain of command. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Either that or they couldn't perform well without supervision. My current model is all WFH but if I ever needed to expand into a physical location, the only people I'd force into the office are the ones that needs me to stand over their shoulder and hold their hand. Everyone else who can prove that they can be productive without a babysitter would get to stay home.
Next time you go to school, ask yourself why some kids get to stay home when they get suspended while others have to come in for in-school suspension. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Sometimes the manager sees competent underlings as a threat to their own position, not an asset. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah, someone brought the idea up at my company—forcing RTO so people would quit and therefore we could avoid layoffs. I pointed out that the people who will leave are the ones who can get a new/better job quickly and easily, and we’d probably be left with the people who are clinging to their jobs because they don’t have the skills or initiative to find something else. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
RTO has been rotating time off for decades why try to change it to this especially when companies are still using rotating time off? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
No matter how many times science proves there is a better way to do business that results in larger amounts of money, but requires any treatment of the employees which could be considered 'kind', or beneficial to them at all, they will always refuse to use it.
The cruelty was ALWAYS the fucking point... more than the point, its part of their compensation package. Taking away their ability to ruin our lives actively diminishes the perceived quality of theirs. They do not measure their wealth against one another, they measure the GULF between themselves and the poor. The rich can be made richer and happier by their own metrics, simply by diminishing the quality of life of the poor.
Americans value possession of the whip's handle far more than any idea of preventing the whippings in the first place. A rich American who cannot dispense cruelty to those bellow him, is not a rich American. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Large layoffs always result in you losing the very best people. They have options. As soon as they detect dysfunction, they take up someone else on their offer.
Big companies that regularly do layoffs are composed of shitty and mediocre employees. Top performers go places that don't have that sort of activity in their system. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
My employer is doing this right now. Hard requirement for 3 days in office with disciplinary actions for those who don't comply. VPs are instructed to review badge swipes on a weekly basis, and to this end they were provided dashboards which automatically pull swipe stats. Remote employees who are within x miles of an office were unilaterally converted to hybrid and are subject to all of these requirements.
I'm remote and not within x miles of an office -- and I have one foot out the door. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Nah. Entirely just my personal experience here, but the most gung-ho WFH people in my company are the group who definitely do jack shit | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
100% this. The good employees will just find another job; the bad employees have low marketability and will stay, leaving you with a lower performing team. I’ve seen it happen and bosses that think it won’t are idiots. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Walked out of my last tech job because the fired my team lead for “lack of presence”
He’s the only one who didn’t micromanage and our team actually got the most done lol. Suppose that’s what you get when the higher ups just want cheap bodies | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
There are people at my company that have done just that. They’ve publicly embarrassed their managers but what can they do? These aren’t dime a dozen type people - good fucking luck replacing them.
Others have just left. I’ve been ok because I got a waver but there are people who literally drive into the office just to swipe their badge 3x a week to meet the RTO policy. It’s moronic to drive into an office that has no privacy, a shitty 24” monitor and shitty watery coffee to get on a zoom meeting that I could have taken at home from my office with a door, a 56” ultra wide and barista quality coffee. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Interesting take. None of the team has left and I have 15 years of experience. Sorry that you feel that way. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I enjoyed this entirely fake story. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Lmao 🤣 the downvotes | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I’m in digital product design and have been getting their recruiters calling for mid-senior roles that are comically below market AND requires 3 days in a week. Every call I tell them it’s too low and wouldn’t go in that much and yet however many recruiters later it never changes.
They can’t even fill the contract roles they’re trying to fill. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
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