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  • You’re right but Australian decisionmakers will never care, because IT infrasctucture is as now as political as what rifle is selected for the army. They’re fully plugged into Uncle Sam’s economic matrix, and that’s what will ultimately see Australia left behind on AI and a host of other technology self-sufficiencies, kept a minor second-hand innovator and permanent technology customer rather than exporter. Lobbying and the compliance industry will do their bits to keep the shop closed in most domains.

    In my years of earning a salary I have never once seen a department I worked in procure a product that wasn’t the biggest, safest American name. Ever. Oracle, Salesforce, MS, etc. every time.

    The empire may change but Australian subservience remains conscious and deliberate (just like much of Europe tbh)






  • If you see this, flag down an employee, tell them you don’t have your cell phone, and make them get the item for you.

    Yes. Get staff on-board with you, against hostile policy that wastes everyone’s time. ‘I drove a sale that may not have happened otherwise, simply by humoring the customer’. Everyone wants to feel productive, regardless of love for the work.

    Then when you go up front to check out, say nevermind and leave.

    No. Now you’ve got them on-side with management, because you wanted to be a smart-ass.

    Do you even psychology?