Misinformation "Superspreaders"

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It's even worse with phones. 
People that get mad at computers for not working as they want accept the same behaviour from smart phones with just a little complaint.
If the information gets to them on their smart phone then it's easier for them to accept it.

Hahaha. I was an email admin in a previous life. Sometimes I would restart services at lunchtime due to memory leaks and config updates and whatnot. We used Postfix, which takes literally seconds to restart. Literally, as soon as I pressed enter on the keyboard the phone would start ringing with people freaking out like the sky is falling or there wasn't also a phone on their desk. By the time I'd get them to calm down and press send again the service would already have been back up for minutes.These outages were scheduled and announced in advance. Eventually, I stuck another relay in front of it we wouldn't bounce until night time that I stuck the complainers on.

These people would go to meetings and piss and moan that "email goes down everyday" and I'm like yes, for 5 seconds at 12:05pm every day lol The way they acted you'd think it was down for hours at a time every other week. I would also be blamed for "email being down" on execs blackberries when the actual issue was their coverage sucked.

But yes now I'm smartphone era... These things are quite unreliable IMHO and yet you never hear a peep. I haven't had a provider with truly decent coverage since they turned off 3G years ago. They're all spotty now like the 90s. But the same cohort accepts this is business as usual. It really does come down to how one was programmed as a child.