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  #3348096 26-Feb-2025 16:27
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The conman who scammed punters out of $26 million with the Fyre Festival is out of jail and back, running the exact same con again.



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  #3348102 26-Feb-2025 17:27
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neb:

 

The conman who scammed punters out of $26 million with the Fyre Festival is out of jail and back, running the exact same con again.

 

 

He has a simple motto: If they've been this stupid once, they're bound to be this stupid a second time. 🤣




     

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  #3348303 27-Feb-2025 10:01
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Mod Emeritus @TonyHughes (good old Tony) brings up a valid issue and New Word Havelock North decides that is better to punish him.

 

It's like an IT security person bringing up an issue and instead of a company solving it, they accuse the person of "hacking".

 

New World store owner being a dick.




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  #3348328 27-Feb-2025 10:57
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freitasm:

 

Mod Emeritus @TonyHughes (good old Tony) brings up a valid issue and New Word Havelock North decides that is better to punish him.

 

It's like an IT security person bringing up an issue and instead of a company solving it, they accuse the person of "hacking".

 

New World store owner being a dick.

 

 

Reddit thread here about it - https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1iyy5bj/hawkes_bay_man_absolutely_flabbergasted_after/ 

 

 




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  #3348471 27-Feb-2025 20:33
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freitasm:

 

It's like an IT security person bringing up an issue and instead of a company solving it, they accuse the person of "hacking“.

 

 

You won't believe it, but I've been through this before. However, one had messed with the wrong person. 😁

 

 




     

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  #3348497 27-Feb-2025 22:18
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This is a photo I took of their DC many moons ago.  Managers only pretended to care.

 

 

 




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  #3348500 27-Feb-2025 22:53
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Convincing any kind of Operations that a safety issue takes precedence over a productivity/laziness/cost/change control issue is always very hard. Usually requires either head office or an outside force. 

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  #3348552 27-Feb-2025 23:13
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MadEngineer:

 

This is a photo I took of their DC many moons ago.  Managers only pretended to care.

 

 

If this happens several times in our company, it is a reason for dismissal for the manager responsible in this area after a warning.




     

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  #3348555 27-Feb-2025 23:26
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Tinkerisk: If this happens several times in our company, it is a reason for dismissal for the manager responsible in this area after a warning.

 

There's even a training film about this sort of thing.  May need to use Youtube subtitles, I'm not sure if there's an English-dubbed version.

 

You can see how seriously people take this, it's had over a million views.

 

Should add a warning, NSFW after about 4 minutes in.

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  #3348628 28-Feb-2025 08:57
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MadEngineer:

 

This is a photo I took of their DC many moons ago.  Managers only pretended to care.

 

 

But you see, there's no marking "Fire Exit" on that door, so they can't be blamed!

 

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  #3348633 28-Feb-2025 09:10
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Tinkerisk:

 

neb:

 

The conman who scammed punters out of $26 million with the Fyre Festival is out of jail and back, running the exact same con again.

 

 

He has a simple motto: If they've been this stupid once, they're bound to be this stupid a second time. 🤣

 


Sounds like a certain Orange someone I have read about...




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  #3348645 28-Feb-2025 09:31
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I am glad to work somewhere which takes safety seriously... 




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  #3348648 28-Feb-2025 09:34
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Mine does too, in theory. Meanwhile the department that tells us we're not allowed to wear jandals in the office often wears jandals in the office.

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  #3348671 28-Feb-2025 11:08
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cddt:

 

I am glad to work somewhere which takes safety seriously... 

 

 

Place I worked at a few years ago had one of those 'in emergency only' exits.  Fire alarm went off so down the stairs and out that door I went.  Turned out, rather expectedly, to be a drill . Subsequently got told off by property or facilities or some such, for using that door, telling me it was for emergencies only...go figure.




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  #3348734 28-Feb-2025 15:18
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Left my work PC for 10 minutes and came back to find this... afraid to restart in case it decides to use a language I don't speak. 

 




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