They fixed the glitch
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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People who buy HP products get what they deserve.
Printers are the devils work (made by HP).
But the docs are still easier to work with than some parts of Lenovos ThinkStations.
At least HP has an override boot menu option)
Stop being a Stan for any company. Neither of them are your friend beyond paying for your salary. And even then they are kept at an arms length.
I don't think that's fair. Plenty of people in this world do not know much about computers or the internet or anything in that area and just need a printer. So they go to their local big box store and there's the HP printers and they're a good deal, so they buy them.
Consumers do not get what they deserve when companies treat them like shit just because they don't have certain knowledge.
Buy the ticket, take the ride
I fucking hate tech elitism. There's a difference between refusing to learn to use a browser and learning the ins and outs of hundreds of different computer companies. Dell isn't really any better and those are the two main ones in a lot of stores.
People act like knowledge is inherit, It is not. It is earned through learning.
I want a fucking human who can quickly help me solve my issue. I don't want to spend hours looking through "could be" problems. If you manufactured the software then your engineers understand it... Your end users only know how to use it the way they need to use it not all the options and variables.
The ultimate answer:
They have been making these things for decades, they know how to make them better, they know how to make them more durable, they know how to making them even simpler to use and fix, they choose not to, for profit. That should be structurally discouraged.
Charge the manufacturers for the FULL, REAL environmental impact of shipping materials and end of life disposal of their products. Yes, that cost will be passed to the consumers, as it should be. It also rewards sale of more durable goods.
Lol at the notion that you'll get to speak to any engineer when your machine breaks. Best they can do is a call center in India getting paid minimum wage that follows a script and circles around a bit between them until you either give up or they RMA your stuff to feed you a bill later for repairs.
If you manufactured the software then your engineers understand it
Ah I see the misunderstanding, the engineers were sacked after they finished writing the code.
Of course they didn't leave any documentation because management said that writing it was a waste of time
I see we have the same managers. Were you also advised that public facing databases were better than an API in a VPC and that 1 password shared among colleagues is easier than managing credentials?
Don't worry, I found a new gig starting in a few weeks (out of the pot into pan )
Just hardcode the DB credentials in your client? Stop making things complicated. ~/s~
Won't someone think of the shareholders!
How about a bot that types slowly, so it can have time to consider what it's going to say? Or perhaps a web page with an "Analyzing issue" status bar that takes several minutes to complete, because computers just do better if they're given time to work on a problem?
It was all about "Encouraging more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online to self-solve," and "taking decisive short-term action to generate warranty cost efficiencies."
If you wanted customers to go online to self-solve, you'd write proper manuals, provide well-documented and granular error codes and allow people to run diagnostics on their own devices... By not providing either it's clear the warranty cost efficiencies they're talking about are people giving up on trying to resolve their issue and just buying a new one
And an excuse to fire half of the support staff.
It doesn't even make sense. One can have a voice bot with an LLM, if it's so bad. One can ask if the customer wants to get an SMS with an URL to support page. Asking them if they want to be sent to operators after that.
But just 15 minutes basic wait so that less people would reach operators - why the hell, I don't get it, how is it better than just waiting in queue when all operators are busy and not waiting when, well, not. If the operators are overloaded and perform worse - then allow bigger ACW times, more breaks, maybe hire more operators.
Especially for a computer hardware company one can script most support calls pretty unambiguously. They are not going to be helping out a grandma via phone when "Internet isn't working".
You're completely right, if the goal is good customer support and decent working conditions for the operators.
It's not. The goal is like 1rre said - make people get fed up and stop trying to get their stuff fixed, just buy a new one. Oh, and they could fire half the operators too, since less people would be willing to wade through the pile of shit to talk to them.
Money and profit, screw the rest.
"We're always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience."
LOL!
Technically they aren't lying: their subjective experience is much better when they don't have to deal with customers.
If cutting our tech support staff in half is what is needed to raise our stock price 1 cent and jack up my bonus then so be it.
"... so we can be sure to avoid ever actually implementing them."
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