TL;DR - it probably cost the Post Office several houndred thousand dollars in internal time to fix this, rather than $500M.
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#12I viscerally hate seeing the name of this company. It's gross. I have a strong sense memory, and it immediately triggers bad images and smells. My brain just does that.
Why on earth would they choose this name? Don't they know some nontrivial subset of their customers can't handle it?
I'm a CEO. I won't question what my team wants or needs if they make the case, but I'd really have a tough time stomaching a choice for this database vendor. I'd probably let them use it, but good god...
Re: The $500M Dollar Typo
#13I viscerally hate seeing the name of this company. It's gross. I have a strong sense memory, and it immediately triggers bad images and smells. My brain just does that. Why on earth would they choose this name? Don't they know some nontrivial subset of their customers can't handle it? I'm a CEO. I won't question what my team wants or needs if they make the case, but I'd really have a tough time stomaching a choice fo…
Why? Just because cockroaches are gross?
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#14I viscerally hate seeing the name of this company. It's gross. I have a strong sense memory, and it immediately triggers bad images and smells. My brain just does that. Why on earth would they choose this name? Don't they know some nontrivial subset of their customers can't handle it? I'm a CEO. I won't question what my team wants or needs if they make the case, but I'd really have a tough time stomaching a choice fo…
Why? Just because cockroaches are gross?
Yeah. My brain just starts thinking about mold and rot and disease and I can't divert it.
It's weird, because I can watch nature documentaries of lions eating prey without flinching.
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#15I viscerally hate seeing the name of this company. It's gross. I have a strong sense memory, and it immediately triggers bad images and smells. My brain just does that. Why on earth would they choose this name? Don't they know some nontrivial subset of their customers can't handle it? I'm a CEO. I won't question what my team wants or needs if they make the case, but I'd really have a tough time stomaching a choice fo…
Why? Just because cockroaches are gross?
Not the commenter, but for me this is it. I'm don't mind any other insect or rodent. But for some reason roaches are absolutely disgusting.
I know how silly it sounds but I would hesitate to work on any project that worked with this tech just because it would make me uncomfortable to hear the word so often.
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#19In a company a worked for many years ago I was in charge of delivering a weekly report to the board with What went wrong this week, Why it went wrong, How we fixed it, How we are making sure that it doesn't break again.
I'd really like to know which checks the USPS added to prevent for something else to cost them $500 M again. OK, there is the usual read the report check which worked on Saturday that time, but it didn't happened on time. So, maybe no automation of actually doing the payment at midnight on Friday?
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#20I viscerally hate seeing the name of this company. It's gross. I have a strong sense memory, and it immediately triggers bad images and smells. My brain just does that. Why on earth would they choose this name? Don't they know some nontrivial subset of their customers can't handle it? I'm a CEO. I won't question what my team wants or needs if they make the case, but I'd really have a tough time stomaching a choice fo…
>nontrivial
Is that based on established data, or based on you having such a strong visceral response that you assume there're plenty of other people that agree?
Maybe this is a good opportunity to explore the experience of being a minority! It feels so weird that they either didn't even think about the possibility of people like you existing, or that they did and decided your money and good will were fine to discard.
I mean this without any facetiousness, this could be a very valuable experience for a CEO, in a position of power and authority, to carry forward. Even if you're a minority in some other way, maybe this will help you understand the experience of having dietary restrictions or allergies, or having frustrating sensory experiences with like overstimulation.