Something I can zone out of, and no talking, so when someone does finally answer it’ll get my attention again. If you can’t/won’t staff your call centres appropriately the least you can do is let me do other things while I wait.
Also this thread reminded of this:
Yup, this is on form for them. This isn’t the first product they’ve done it to and surely won’t be the last.
Shame, I liked VMware.
You’re spot on, however the pervasiveness of this kind of data collection and analysis seems to have really picked up in recent years.
Don’t forget too that this is just monitoring chats, there are plenty of other sources of data that could be used against you if so desired.
IMHO the issue isn’t so much that people are using work-controlled platforms to say things that workplace doesn’t like (though that is an issue), it’s more the shift in the employer mindset that tools like this enable, and the huge imbalance it can create when it comes to salary negotiations, constructive dismissal, mass layoffs, union busting, etc.
I don’t have any cool stories like yours but last time we had a power outage I probably wouldn’t have noticed if I didn’t have HA set to notify me. That’s mostly due to the house setup (solar inverter and batteries) but we do also have a couple of cheap, dumb UPS units which keep the ONT and one of the APs online, which for house layout reasons aren’t on backup power otherwise.
That said the power where I am is a bit dirty - before we had the inverter put in we had some really nasty brownouts that I’m amazed didn’t immediately kill anything. So it’s entirely possible that the backup power has saved something from a premature end.