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xrunner:

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--- Quote from: xrunner on July 04, 2022, 03:46:38 pm ---Teams app is free on iphone.  :-//

Hey bd looky what Amazon delivered just now -

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Not on a 10 year old iPhone though  :-DD

Oooooh a box of grunt! Enjoy!

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Vince it's a test - if you can install the app you get the job. C'mon man we want you to have plenty of money for TEA! Upgrade your fucking phone!  :-DD
bd139:
Turds of the day...

Damp shed victim. Layer of ultra-crunk on it... only starting at £42 inc delivery  :palm: :palm: :palm:



And now for the unholy union between one of the robots in Silent Running and a Fluke 8060A we have the following for the bargain price of £650  :palm: :palm: :palm:

Vince:

--- Quote from: xrunner on July 04, 2022, 03:56:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 04, 2022, 03:52:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 04, 2022, 03:46:38 pm ---Teams app is free on iphone.  :-//

Hey bd looky what Amazon delivered just now -

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Not on a 10 year old iPhone though  :-DD

Oooooh a box of grunt! Enjoy!

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Vince it's a test - if you can install the app you get the job. C'mon man we want you to have plenty of money for TEA! Upgrade your fucking phone!  :-DD

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I don't have money to buy anything, and if I had, I don't have time to get it shipped and get it working.

I just called the HR girl, she says instead I can use TEAMS on my desktop computer, and use it in combination with my phone. The phone would provide the video and sound, and the computer would do I don't know what.

Interview postponed to Friday morning. This gives me a bit of time to try to understand how to get that to work... I am not too hopeful...

And how would she get the video from my smartphone, when people phone me I only get the sound not the video.... so that means I would need some other app to broadcast the video and get that sent to TEAMS, somehow.... it becomes even more complicated and mysterious... even less likely to work.

Looks like I won't get that job, oh well  :-//

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 04, 2022, 03:36:45 pm ---FUCK ME !!!  :scared:


Last Friday a friend / ex-colleague asked me to pass me my CV so he could hass him to some company that's recruiting, one of many subcontractor that do the same stuff I was doing at my ex company. Quality contorl for Airbus, airframe. Well at least I am in my confort zone / operational.

A minute ago that company phoned me, yeah...we arranged for an appointment tomorrow with her, who is the HR girl I guess, and another girl, probably the team manager on the Airbus plant, to assess the technical part of it. I guess.
Anyway she told me the interview will be held over the phone with " TEAMS ". Well, whatever. So I just googled for this thing, it's an app you download on your phone, made  by freaking Microsoft. Takes 258MB on your phone, I barely have enough space to install that thing, after having deleted a few apps.
so I go to install it.... it asks to create an account, hmmm.... OK, I will swallow that pill for now. So I give it a username and password, then it asks me for my... CREDIT CARD DETAILS ?!!  :wtf:
Says you can use the free version, we won't take any money on your account... but we require that you gives us you credit card details anyway !  :wtf:

FUCK THAT !!!!

So I found another link to download the app. It didn't ask for my credit card... or maybe it would have a few clicks later, once it had managed to install on my phone but.... it REFUSES to install, says " This version of TEAMS is not compatible with your phone "!  :horse:

OK the phone might be a bit old, it's a LG Nexus 4 with Android 5.1.1
Wikipedia says the phone was released i November 2012...

Maybe upgrading Android might do it but I don't think so... think I already upgraded it a while back, and it took so much space that I could not install any app, and TEAMS wnats no less than 250Mo so it's a no no.

So.... I am fucked. Well, THEY are fucked, they won't have the honour, pleasure, delice of having me in their company !  :-DD

Company is " Expleo ", IIRC it's the low cost branch of I can't remember what sub-contractor that was competing with my ex company, which means they would pay even less than my ex job.... well, still better than nothing, short term, I guess.

OK, will call that HR girl back to tell her it won't work, sorry mam, I tried... if they can do a normal phone call, or just a freaking real interview in an office like people used to do in the old time...


That's what you get when you rely on stupid modern technology, you just can't rely on it for anything important. If it works, it works, but when it refuses to work, you're fucked.  :horse:



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There is your problem right there, the phone is 10 years old and is only really any good for a pure phone alone, almost all apps will refuse to run on such an old platform.

That said however, I do still agree with you about the interviews, it is my firm belief that these should be conducted in person, and I also believe that the interviewer should reimburse the cost of attending such interviews. Today it is common place for some people to have been out of work for a period and therefore may not have the wherewith all to afford to attend the interview, having other greater priorities for their cash, like eating, rent etc.

In the past, I have been asked to attend interviews over 100 miles away   :wtf:. When I used to interview people for positions, I used to go to a hotel close to them and do the interview there, and likewise, the better companies who have interviewed me for a job, have all come to see me, either at home or in a very local hotel. But these days, such etiquette  seems to be alien to most companies.

But back to your phone, it is a thorny point in my side as well about phone companies and app developers not being willing to at least ensure that their products are capable of being used to their full design capability for at least a 10-year period. Not everyone can afford to splash many hundreds of pounds on new phones every 2 to 3 years, when inflation is creeping up and up all the time and wages failing miserably to keep pace, so in essence most people today are far worse off than they were 10 years ago :rant:

EDIT
I'm in a similar position now with my phone, it is 3 years old, and some apps are already incompatible with it and the phone makers are no longer supporting it with software updates. The phone is taking longer and longer to respond to anything these days, and I don't even have a single game installed on it, has 64GB internal storage with only 28.5Gb used and also has a 64GB memory card fitted with only 288MB used, so space is not an issue. I'm already looking for another phone but don't want to spend hundreds on a phone when my income is limited to pension only.
AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 04, 2022, 10:01:10 am ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 04, 2022, 05:25:47 am ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 03, 2022, 10:44:45 pm ---I prefer upper LEFT if you don't mind, for it's got Nixie tubes in it !  >:D

A " Signature Analyzer " wow that sounds fancy high tech and mysterious all at the same time.... do you hook up a camera to it and it reads a hand written signature and tells you if it's been forged or is legit ?
Pretty high-tech for the day indeed !  :-DD


OK OK... I will go download the user manual to see what it does ...  :-//

The HP noise generator at the bottom looks pretty nice, it deserves some cleaning for sure, please !  :-DD

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Yes but the upper right unit matches the page number, rather the point...

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Oh ! So we are back into this game again ? I thought it was history ?  :-//
When I joined TEA 15 months ago it was the 3000's and people were posted HP stuff every day, then came 4000 and a consensus was made that it was time to give upo on that game since very few people wanted to be flooded with CMOS chip pictures every single day.... so we it's now back again... hmmmm...... OK, I take note, I can play too....  >:D

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Yes, well CMOS chips are not TE, so should never have been used.
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