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Our recruitment has been going so badly that management are suggesting we’re too picky and our online tests are too hard. So I’ve got my wife to do the test. So far, she’s doing about as well as one of our worse candidates. Bear in mind, she is 100% a user with no technical or customer support...

Scan will do exactly that, but you’ve got to get the parts from them. https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/custom/pc/pc#anc I’d imagine most independent PC shops would be happy to take you through a build, but I suspect the problem you’ll have is not having bought the parts from them - who’s liable if...

Oh I will, after the 31 day notice period is up. But I’m sure it won’t come to that, it’ll just be another agonising phone call 😂

My cancellation by email is going well. They replied to say they couldn’t find my details and can I send them my correct name, address and phone number. I mailed them back saying check again, because the details I sent are right. So that was a good start. Just got this. Obviously, despite...

https://www.ign.com/articles/robocop-rogue-city-unfinished-business-review More of the same if anyone's interested. £16.99 on CD Keys. Think I'll wait for a while and pick it up when it's under a tenner.

Didn’t even get that far. He said they had to tell me all the Sky VIP benefits I’d be missing out on and review my package to give me the best deal. I said I totally understand they have to do that as part of the retention attempt but it was pointless as whatever they offer I was cancelling. He...

I’m on the phone with the cancellation team now. Can feel my blood pressure rising as the guy tries the tricks of the trade. Edit: I very politely told them I wasn’t interested in negotiating on price and just wanted to cancel and they hung up on me 😂

Done right and properly documented, all good. If not, a descent into “it’s your system not returning the correct response/it’s your system not parsing our response correctly“ hell.

Intel XMP is just a proprietary overclocking/memory timing thing. It doesn’t mean the RAM is intel only or won’t work without XMP.

I prefer using Xbox controllers too, most PC games know what it is and map everything nicely. Dualshock also works though. Not that I often use a controller but some games (e.g. Stray) pretty much need one.

Piece of piss 👍 https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/pair-dualsense-controller-bluetooth/

I totally get the concern, but it’ll be fine. These days Amazon put sod all packaging around stuff anyway so it would just have been a box in another box, next to zero extra shock protection.

It’ll be fine, as long as the box wasn’t crushed etc. Very common these days for things to be shipped like that.

Yeah they do, but it’s live only with no catchup etc and the price is carefully pitched that if you’re not a very occasional user you’re better off getting a proper subscription.

Think I’m going to bin it off and get an F1 TV pro subscription again. I would genuinely quite happily pay them a tenner a month, even twenty a month, to just have Sky F1 and nothing else but nope you have to have the TV package and all the sports on top, and it’s a 24 month contract now where...

Sky Q box needs a dish which can need installation, it’s a bigger bit of kit with a hard drive in it so higher shipping and warranty costs. Much cheaper for them to just send out a little streaming box. Mine’s going up by £15 at the start of September but thankfully I’m out of contract pretty...

We used to use Keepass at work, it was…. “OK”. Bitwarden now and it’s decent, no complaints. At the end of the day, just want something transparent which keeps out of the way.

Can't remember, when we booked the track time did we have to specify a car? If we're bringing a different one than originally intended, does anyone need to be notified?

That is absolutely the right way to use it. Problem is, not enough people do and it makes it so easy for blaggers.

I’m genuinely concerned by the impact. Googling everything was one thing, but at least you had to be able to read and summarise it. Now it seems like way too many people can’t even write an email without AI.

Oh, and we binned off all six candidates that we interviewed. Depressing. I have now added to the job advert “Candidates who primarily use pre-existing solutions, web searches or generative AI to support industry standard products are unlikely to succeed in this role” You just can’t Google...

I mean, it’s not impossible. The office is in Bristol and I’ve no idea who you are IRL…….

Such a good feeling!

Some of the best people I’ve ever worked with had no degrees. We always say degree or relevant experience in industry. As others said, really all you used to be able to say about a degree was that it showed you were somebody who could knuckle down for three years and come out of it with a...

From the lights on it, looks like it’s in economy mode, so the car probably drives like s**t with it on anyway. Needs to be notified to insurance too, it’s not subtle so will jump out at anyone who lifts the bonnet. I’d bin it unless he wants the extra powwwwwer.

I think it’s a lot of things to be honest, the rise of the helicopter parent, everybody knowing their rights but don’t understand that responsibilities come alongside those rights, the Covid generation, people outsourcing their ability to think to Google and now AI, and just a general culture of...

I feel personally attacked.

Do NOT get me started. We have an offshore unit in Bangalore and they are totally incapable of stopping the candidates gen-AI-ing their way through the assessments. It makes it impossible. We’ve had to deploy a tool now, hackerrank I think it is, which monitors for everything like that. Tests...

Totally agree, we have really good staff retention. We’re just coming out of the other side of a messy takeover and merger, but a merger which was actually sensible in that it wasn’t just merging with a direct competitor and then cutting everything. In our case they merged us with a...

Circa £40k depending on experience. Pension contributions matched up to 5%, private healthcare, usual ”bolt on” salary sacrifice benefits if you want them (dental, various other insurances, cycle to work, car through Tusker)